Primary sources

897 primary sources cited in the literature, grouped by kind and ordered by the number of works that use them. Each page lists those works and how they use the source; where the project holds the source, the page links to the dataset documentation on this site.

Commission or official report (170)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other commission or official report (one-off, 1948-1994)	1948-1994	88
Tomlinson Commission (Socio-Economic Development of the Bantu Areas), UG 61/1955, and White Paper F-1956	1950-1956	45
Other commission or official report (one-off, pre-1948)	1793-1948	38
Other commission or official report (one-off, post-1994)	1994-2012	28
Wiehahn Commission of Inquiry into Labour Legislation reports and White Paper	1977-1981	26
Other commission or official report (one-off, pre-1948)	pre-1948	25
Riekert Commission Report and White Paper (Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower), RP 32/1979	1977-1979	21
Other commission or official report (one-off, foreign/international)	various	19
Board of Trade and Industries reports	1923-1992	18
Native Laws (Fagan) Commission 1946-48, UG 28/1948	1946-1948	18
Other commission or official report (one-off, post-1990)	1990-2008	18
Social and Economic Planning Council reports	1944-1948	18
Native Economic Commission 1930-32, UG 22/1932	1930-1932	17
Commission of Enquiry into Agriculture (Marais/Du Plessis), RP 84/1970	1966-1972	13
Low Grade Mines Commission 1919-20	1919-1920	13
South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-05	1903-1905	12
Transvaal Local Government (Stallard) Commission 1921-22	1921-1922	11
Delimitation Commission Reports 1910-1980	1910-1980	10	yes
Native Economic Commission 1930-32 (UG 22/1932)	1930-1932	10
Commission of Enquiry into European Occupancy of the Rural Areas (Du Toit), 1959-60	1957-1960	9
Natives Land (Beaumont) Commission 1913-16 and Land Committees 1918	1913-1918	9
Carnegie Commission, The Poor White Problem in South Africa	1932	8
International Labour Office reports	1962-1998	8	yes
Post-1994 government green/white papers and policy documents	1994-2003	8
World Bank reports on South Africa and region	1966-2007	8
British Parliamentary Papers / Blue Books	1830-1908	7
Economic and Wage Commission 1925, UG 14/1926	1925-1926	7
Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and Final Report	1995-1998	7
Wage Board investigations and determinations	1926-1990s	7
Witwatersrand Mine Natives' Wages (Lansdown) Commission, UG 21/1944	1943-1944	7
Carnegie Commission, The Poor White Problem	1929-1932	6
Commission on Trade and Industries (Cullinan), UG 10/1912	1910-1912	6
De Kock Commission into the Monetary System and Monetary Policy	1978-1985	6
Reynders Commission on the Export Trade (RP 69/72)	1972	6
United Nations resolutions and reports	1953-2005	6
Van Eck Commission (Industrial and Agricultural Requirements, UG 40/1941)	1941	6
Board for the Decentralisation of Industry reports and programme records	1960-1992	5
Cape Parliament Votes and Proceedings annexures and select committees	1854-1906	5
Department of Agriculture reports	1910-1990s	5
Eiselen Commission on Native Education (UG 53/1951)	1949-1951	5
Kemmerer-Vissering Report on Resumption of Gold Payments	1924-1925	5
Kleu Study Group on Industrial Development Strategy	1977-1986	5
National Manpower Commission reports	1983-1990s	5
President's Council reports	1981-1989	5
Beaumont (Natives Land) Commission	1916-1918	4
Commission on Co-operation and Agricultural Credit, UG 16/1934	1934	4
Commonwealth EPG, CHOGM and Secretariat sanctions reports	1985-1990	4
Commonwealth Secretariat / Expert Group / Eminent Persons reports	1986-1994	4
Department of Labour reports	1937-1960	4
Economic Development Programme of the Republic of South Africa	1974-1987	4
Goldstone Commission reports	1991-1993	4
Good Hope Plan / regional development strategy documents	1981-1982	4
Human Sciences Research Council reports	1977-1982	4
Industrial Commission of Inquiry, ZAR 1897	1897	4
Kassier Committee of Inquiry into the Marketing Act 1992	1992	4
National Agricultural Marketing Council reports	1999-2009	4
National Manpower Commission reports	1982-1991	4
Native Farm Labour Committee 1937-39	1937-1939	4
Permanent Committee for the Location of Industry reports	1960-1971	4
President's Council reports on urbanisation and constitutional affairs	1985-1989	4
Reconstruction Committee of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry	1943-1945	4
Reynders Commission into the Export Trade, RP 69/1972, and follow-up	1969-1978	4
Sauer (HNP Colour Question) Commission Report	1945-1947	4
Smit Committee on Urban Natives	1942	4
Surplus People Project, Forced Removals in South Africa	1983	4	yes
Theron Commission (Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to the Coloured Population Group), RP 38/1976	1976	4
Transvaal Indigency Commission	1906-1908	4
Transvaal Labour Commission 1903-04, report and evidence	1903-1904	4
United Nations reports and documents	1946-1994	4
Wiehahn and Riekert Commissions (cited jointly)	1977-1979	4
Annual Reports of Departments of Bantu Administration and Bantu Education	1960-1973	3
Auditor-General reports	1950s-2000	3
BAD General Circular No. 25 of 1967	1967	3
Bureau for Economic Research wage and Bantu development reports	1960-1985	3
Cillie Commission on the Soweto riots	1976-1980	3
Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Coloured Population (Wilcocks), UG 54/1937	1937	3
Customs Tariff (Holloway) Commission, UG 5/1936	1934-1936	3
DBSA evaluations (RIDP, Farmer Support Programmes)	1987-1995	3
De Lange Commission on education	1981-1991	3
Defence White Papers	1969-1977	3
Department of Bantu Administration and Development reports	1958-1981	3
Department of Labour annual reports	1933-1952	3
Economic Development Programme for the RSA	1965-1987	3
Education Renewal Strategy / Walters Report	1990-1992	3
Franzsen Commission on fiscal and monetary policy 1970	1970	3
Industrial Legislation (Botha) Commission 1951	1948-1951	3
Industrial Legislation Commission (UG 37/1935)	1935	3
Industrial Tribunal reports on work reservation	1957-1963	3
Industrial and Agricultural Requirements (Van Eck) Commission	1936-1941	3
Low Grade Ore Commission 1930-32	1930-1932	3
Mining Industry Commission 1907-08	1907-1908	3
Natal Native Commissions	1846-1907	3
National Training Board / HSRC investigations	1984-1995	3
National Treasury / Department of Finance budget documents	1998-2004	3
Native Affairs Commission reports	1936-1941	3
Native Grievances Inquiry (Buckle) 1913-14	1913-1914	3
Permanent Committee for the Location of Industry reports	1960-1970	3
Thornton Committee on areas becoming urbanised, UG 8/1940	1938-1940	3
US General Accounting Office reports on South Africa and sanctions	1987-1990	3
Union Native Affairs Commission reports	1910-1938	3
White Papers on agricultural and land policy	1946-1997	3
Agricultural marketing boards and National Marketing Council reports	1938-1995	2
Botha Coloured Education Commission	1953-1957	2
Botha Industrial Legislation Commission (UG 62/1951)	1949-1951	2
Bureau of Market Research Minimum Living Level reports	1974-1981	2
Buthelezi Commission	1982	2
Cape Native Affairs Blue Books	1874-1904	2
Cape and Natal redistribution of seats reports	1883-1907	2
Cape colonial records (VOC and early British)	1666-1835	2
Ciskei (Quail) Commission	1980	2
Ciskei (Quail) Commission 1980	1980	2
Commissions of enquiry into the Garment Workers' and Mine Workers' Unions	1946-1953	2
De Villiers Commission on Technical and Vocational Education	1948-1949	2
Department of Manpower Annual Reports	1970-1986	2
East Africa (Ormsby-Gore) Commission	1925	2
Economic Commission 1914, UG 12/1914	1913-1914	2
Economic and Wage Commission 1925-26 (UG 14/1926)	1925-1926	2
Financial and Fiscal Commission reports	1995-1998	2
Froneman Committee on foreign labour	1962-1963	2
Gold Conference 1919 and Currency Conference 1921	1919-1926	2
Government Mining Engineer annual reports	1907-1993	2
Homeland and departmental corruption inquiries	1987-1997	2
Independent Electoral Commission reports	1994-1999	2
Industrial Commission of Inquiry 1897	1897	2
Inquiries into the Broederbond / secret organisations	1964-1965	2
Inter-Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Riots on Mines	1975-1976	2
Inter-Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Riots on Mines (McKay)	1975	2
Joint Committees on Asiatic land laws, UG 49/1950	1949-1950	2
Land and Agricultural Bank annual reports	1913-1919	2
Lesotho and Swaziland development plans and tourism consultancies	1973-1986	2
Mining Industry Commission/Board 1922	1922-1925	2
Mining Regulations Commission (UG 36/1925)	1924-1925	2
Mouton Commission on monopolistic conditions, RP 64/1977	1977	2
Natal Legislative Council papers and Natal colonial records	1857-1884	2
National Convention and Union formation documents	1906-1909	2
Native Affairs Department reports	1913-1957	2
Natural Resources Development Council reports	1947-1954	2
Orange River Colony Native Affairs/Administration Commission 1908-09	1908-1909	2
Petrick Commission on Coal Resources, RP 63/1975	1975	2
Presidential Commission to Investigate Labour Market Policy	1996	2
SADCC reports	1980-1987	2
Second Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Agriculture (RP 84/1970)	1970	2
Smit Inter-Departmental Committee on Urban Natives 1942	1942	2
Southern Rhodesia Native Commissioner reports	1919-1933	2
Transkei government development and departmental reports	1980-2000	2
Transvaal Labour Commission	1903-1905	2
UK Select Committee on Wages of African Workers employed by British Firms	1973-1974	2
US government reports on South Africa	1975-1987	2
Viljoen Commission on Protection of Industries (UG 36/1958)	1958	2
Viljoen Commission on Protection of Industries, UG 36/1958	1958	2
Cape Colonial Blue Books	c.1840s-1914	1
Cape Native Laws and Customs Commission	1883-1885	1
Closer union customs, railway and inter-colonial conference papers	1903-1908	1
Commission on Cost/Profit Margins of Agricultural Implements, RP 10/1962	1962	1
Competition Commission and Tribunal records	2000-2012	1
Cost of Living Commission and Special Commissioner reports	1916-1919	1
EC Code of Conduct national summary reports	1977-1988	1
Estimates of Expenditure and appropriation reports	1910-2010	1
European Community documents on South Africa	1981-1988	1
Land Claims Commission / Commission on Restitution of Land Rights records	post-1994	1
Murray Commission 1939	1939	1
Natal Native Blue Books	1878-1909	1
Native Farm Labour Committee	1937-1939	1
Nyasaland government labour reports	1916-1940	1
Port Elizabeth Mayor's Minutes and Labour Bureau reports	1927-1963	1
Reports of the Commissioner of the South African Police	1965-1970	1
Transkeian Territories General Council (Bunga) Proceedings	1908-1959	1
Transvaal Administration Reports 1902	1899-1902	1
Tuberculosis Commission (UG 34/1915)	1914-1915	1
Van der Walt Commission on homeland consolidation	1980-1981	1

Official statistical series (78)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other official statistical series (one-off)	various	104	yes
official_statistical_series: unspecified/unattributed figures	various	54
South African Statistics / Statistical Year Book	1964-2002	33
Official Year Book of the Union / Republic of South Africa	1910-1990	30
Survey of Race Relations in South Africa (annual)	1951-2001	25	yes
Union Statistics for Fifty Years, 1910-1960	1904-1960	25
official_statistical_series: non-South African official statistics (other)	various	24
South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin	1940-2001	20	yes
Abstract of Agricultural Statistics	1958-2012	13	yes
South African Reserve Bank statistical time series / database	1946-2006	13	yes
Bulletin of Statistics (monthly/quarterly) and Department of Statistics employment series	1934-1984	12
South African Labour Statistics	1960-1996	12
Consumer Price Index	1920-2008	10	yes
National budget, Treasury and Division of Revenue documents	1969-2010	10
Agricultural Census / Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production	1918-1993	9	yes
Reports of the Native Affairs Department	1904-1953	8
Foreign trade statistics	1910-1995	7
Manpower Surveys	1969-1995	7	yes
South African Reserve Bank Annual Economic Report	1961-2000	7
Department of Labour / Manpower Annual Reports	1940-1996	6
Annual Report of the Commissioner of the South African Police	1916-1982	5
Department of Agriculture production cost surveys and wage studies	1945-1985	5
Government Mining Engineer / Department of Mines Annual Reports	1902-1965	5
Home Affairs deportation statistics	1985-2000	5
Cape Blue Books / Statistical Register	1821-1909	4
Cape Blue Books and Statistical Registers	1835-1905	4
Department of Statistics Statistical News Releases	1960-1979	4
South African Statistics (Department of Statistics / CSS)	1956-1993	4
official_statistical_series: colonial-era returns (one-off)	1508-1908	4
official_statistical_series: unattributed aggregate series	1953-2020s	4
BENSO Statistical Survey of Black Development	1970-1982	3
Bureau/Department of Statistics news releases	1967-1979	3
Department of Manpower strike statistics	1972-1991	3
Development Bank of Southern Africa statistical series	1946-1996	3
Gross Geographic Product by magisterial district	1968-1996	3
Handbook of Agricultural Statistics 1904-1950	1904-1950	3
Input-Output Tables	1960-1985	3	yes
National Productivity Institute productivity data	1970-1987	3
Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa (Union Year Book)	1925-1956	3
Producer Price Index	1980-2011	3
South African Railways and Harbours annual reports	1911-1980	3
TIPS sectoral panel dataset	1970-2004	3
Transvaal Administration Reports	1902-1905	3
Voters' lists and registers	1907-1980	3
Annual Report of the Commissioner of the South African Police	1974	2
CSS South African Labour Statistics	1970-1992	2
Chamber of Mines statistics	1897-1982	2
Crops and Markets	1950-1975	2
Current Population Survey, Statistical News Release P27.3	1986	2
Delimitation Commission voter tables	1904-1980	2	yes
Department of Internal Affairs immigration statistics	1961-1999	2
Department of Manpower annual reports	1956-1991	2
Economics and Finance in South Africa's Black Territories	1972-1979	2
Epidemiological Comments	1971-1993	2
Government strike statistics, National Manpower Commission	1910-1985	2
Health Trends in South Africa	1989-1993	2
IDC sectoral database	1972-1993	2
Infrastructure time series (roads, vehicles, ports, air, telephones, electricity)	1911-2003	2
Maize Board statistics and annual reports	1918-1984	2
Mine labour supply panel (sending country data, Met Office, recruitment quotas)	1946-1978	2
National Accounts of the Bantu Homelands / Black States	1969-1976	2
Pass law prosecution series (SAIRR; Bulletin of Statistics)	1947-1984	2
SAGIS grain data	1936-2012	2
Statistical Year Book and Bulletin of Statistics	1951-1968	2
Statistics of Houses and Domestic Servants	1970-1975	2
Stats SA Labour Force Survey and unemployment data	1994-2004	2
Stats SA agricultural employment surveys and census of commercial agriculture	1960-2007	2
Survey of Agricultural Mechanization Sales	1968-2010	2
Weather Service rainfall records	1917-2009	2	yes
Cape Blue Books on Native Affairs	1874-1913	1
Cape Reports on Births and Deaths Registration	1895-1905	1
Education Atlas of South Africa	1991	1	yes
Mining Statistics, Department of Mines	1970	1	yes
Natal Blue Books and Statistical Year Book	1852-1899	1
Official Estimates of Expenditure/Revenue	1967-1972	1
Official South African life tables	1921-1996	1
SARB Governor's Annual Address to Stockholders	1921-	1
Stats SA death notification / vital statistics	1993-2002	1

Newspapers periodicals (97)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
South African newspapers and periodicals (multi-title compilations)	1911-2009	94
Other newspapers periodicals (one-off)	various	48
Financial Mail	1967-2002	30
Rand Daily Mail	1921-1985	23
International newspapers and periodicals (multi-title compilations)	1902-2012	19
Sunday Times (Johannesburg)	1948-2008	15
South African Labour Bulletin	1974-1999	14
The Star (Johannesburg)	1922-2002	11
Business Day	1984-1999	10
Colonial-era Cape, Natal and Kimberley press	1854-1907	9
Financial Times	1978-2007	8
Weekly Mail / Mail & Guardian	1985-2002	8
SAIRR Race Relations journal / Race Relations News	1935-1969	7
Cape Times	1977-2011	6
Farmer's Weekly / Farmer's Advocate	1907-1988	6
Labour, liberation movement and left periodicals	1920s-1987	6
Euromoney	1982-1988	5
New York Times	1982-1988	5
Abasebenzi workers' newsletter	1973-1975	4
Daily Dispatch (East London)	1937-1981	4
Die Burger	1943-2002	4
Eastern Province Herald	1981-1992	4
Farming in South Africa	1936-1964	4
SAIRR Survey of Race Relations	1956-2002	4	yes
Sowetan	1982-2004	4
The Economist	1931-1995	4
The Friend (Bloemfontein)	1892-1979	4
African nationalist press (Abantu-Batho, Umteteli, Ilanga etc.)	1912-1933	3
Afrikaner nationalist and church periodicals	1933-1952	3
Business International publications	1981-1986	3
Contemporary travellers', journalistic and periodical writings (19th-early 20th c.)	1849-1916	3
Die Transvaler	1944-1992	3
Finance Week	1980-1985	3
Mining and technical society journals	1891-1986	3
Natal Mercury	1859-1988	3
SA Commerce and Manufacturers' Record / Industrial South Africa	1907-1926	3
SALDRU newspaper clippings collection	1975-2000	3
South Africa Foundation News / Review	1973-1991	3
The Guardian (UK)	1973-2002	3
The Observer	1980	3
The Times (London)	1910-1991	3
The World Today	1980-1991	3
U.S. News & World Report	1978-1987	3
Washington Post	1979-1989	3
Work in Progress (incl. WIP strike data)	1973-1995	3	yes
Barclays Business Briefs	1986	2
Cape Argus / Weekend Argus	1982-1993	2
Commerce and Industry	1948-1953	2
Employer and management trade journals (multi-title)	1920s-1976	2
Facts on File	1986	2
Industry Week	1991	2
Industry and Trade	1954-1970	2
Inkululeko	1940-1948	2
Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of SA	1894-1934	2
Keesing's Contemporary Archives	1948-1986	2
Landbouweekblad	1984-1998	2
Natal Advertiser	1916-1920	2
New Nation	late 1980s	2
Optima	1952-1959	2
SABC broadcasts	1974-1985	2
SABRA publications (Journal of Racial Affairs etc.)	1949-1950s	2
South African Digest	1987	2
South African Journal of Economics	1932-1983	2
South African Journal of Industries	1917-1924	2
State of the Nation	1985	2
The Banker	1982-1992	2
The Black Sash	1967-1973	2
The Citizen	1992-2002	2
The Guardian (Cape Town, CPSA-aligned)	1940s	2
The South African Builder	1950-1985	2
The Torch	1950-1958	2
Time magazine	1987-1993	2
Volkshandel	1948-1981	2
World Labor Group database (Times and NYT Index labor unrest)	1870-1996	2
Africa News (Durham)	1979	1
Africa Research Bulletin	1986-1987	1
Bantu Education Journal	1965	1
Cape Herald	1977-1985	1
Daily News (Durban)	1973	1
Die Vaderland	1947	1
Dow Jones News Retrieval	1984-1990	1
FBIS reprints / SAPA reports	1988-1989	1
Finnish union and daily press	1961-1990	1
Homeland trade periodicals	1978-1994	1
Imvo Zabantsundu	1918-1930	1
Indicator SA	1980s-1990	1
Labour Monitoring Group stayaway reports	1984-1986	1
Leadership SA	1982-1994	1
Mining Survey	1947-1948	1
New Age / Advance	1953-1962	1
Pretoria News	1994	1
Rapport	1992-1993	1
Sunday Express (Johannesburg)	1984	1
The Manufacturer	1957	1
Wall Street Journal	1984-1990	1
Who's Who of Southern Africa	1966-1990	1	yes
Workers' Voice	1935-1945	1

Legislation gazette (71)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Apartheid-era statutes (multi-act compilations)	1913-1992	30	yes
Natives (Urban Areas) Act 1923 / Blacks (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act 1945 and amendments (incl. Section 10)	1923-1986	28
Industrial Conciliation Acts 1924/1937/1956 and amendments (1979 etc.), later Labour Relations Act (pre-1995)	1924-1991	26
Pre-Union colonial and Boer republican legislation	1797-1909	22
Other legislation gazette (one-off)	various	21
Natives Land Act 1913 and Native Trust and Land Act 1936 (and amendments)	1913-1980s	19
South Africa Act 1909, Constitution Acts 1961/1983 and electoral/delimitation legislation	1909-1983	14
Native Labour Regulation Act 1911 and Mines and Works Acts 1911/1926	1911-1930s	13
Legislation of other territories (Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Kenya, Swaziland, etc.)	1880-2007	12
Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act 1967 / Environment Planning Act	1967-1986	10
Government Gazette (proclamations and government notices)	1911-1990	8	yes
Homeland/Bantu Authorities and Status Acts	1951-1986	8
Marketing Act 1937/1968 and Marketing of Agricultural Products Act 1996	1925-1998	8
Post-1994 statutes (mining, environment, local government, etc.)	1996-2004	8
Currency and banking legislation	1861-1992	7
Native Affairs/Administration Acts and native law codes	1865-1998	7
Apartheid security legislation and emergency proclamations	1950-1987	6	yes
Interim Constitution 1993, Constitution 1996 and transition electoral legislation	1993-1997	6
Job reservation provisions and determinations (ICA s.77 etc.)	1951-1984	6
Labour Relations Act 1995 and post-1990 labour legislation	1992-2002	6
Statutes of the Union of South Africa	1910-1960	6
US Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act 1986	1983-1992	6
Wage Act and Wage Board / sectoral wage determinations	1925-2009	6
Customs union conventions and tariff legislation	1903-1939	5
Agricultural, soil conservation and land settlement legislation	1912-1996	4
Bantu/Black Labour Act 1964, Black Labour Regulations 1965 and related labour bureaux regulations	1964-1978	4	yes
Jeppe & Kotze, De locale wetten der Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek 1849-1885	1849-1885	4
Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act 1952 and Native Laws Amendment Act	1949-1986	4
Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Act 1973 (liaison/works committees)	1973-1976	3
Bantu Laws Amendment Act and Aliens Control Act 1963	1963	3
Education legislation (Bantu Education Act etc.)	1866-1967	3
General Circular No. 27 (1967) on black housing	1967-1968	3
Immorality Act, Mixed Marriages Act, Group Areas and Section 10 rights	to 1981	3
Laboria Minute 1990 and related LRA amendments	1988-1991	3
Public Health, Housing, Slums and Indian segregation acts	1919-1950s	3
UN General Assembly resolutions, ICJ opinions and international instruments	1945-2004	3
UN Security Council resolutions	1963-1994	3
War Measures and National Security Regulations (1942-1945)	1941-1956	3
Abolition of Labour Tenancy notices	1960s-1970s	2
Bantu Affairs Administration Act 1971	1971	2
Bilateral labour agreements with neighbouring states	1960s-1970s	2
Black Local Authority Act 1982	1982	2
Cape Government Gazette no. 2174 (1847), Native Locations	1847	2
Chinese Association of South Africa v Minister of Labour (2008)	2008	2
Draft Further Powers of Local Authorities Ordinance, Cape Provincial Gazette 1938	1938-1950	2
Employment Equity Act 1998, Government Gazette 19370	1998	2
Foreign codes of conduct and EC sanctions measures	1977-1986	2
Fuel, petroleum and energy legislation	1922-1985	2
Group Areas Act 1950	1950-1970s	2
Historic treaties and conventions (1752-1898)	1752-1898	2
Industrial Law Journal 7 (1986), Kloof Mine disciplinary code	1986	2
Industrial council agreements published in Government Gazette	1953-1983	2	yes
Masters and Servants Acts	1856-1974	2
Medical Schemes Act 1967 and Amendment 1993	1967-1994	2
Mozambique Convention 1928	1922-1942	2
Portuguese colonial decrees on compulsory employment	1942-1961	2
Post-1991 land reform statutes	1991-1998	2
Prohibition of Political Interference Act 1968	1965-1985	2
ROC-RSA Bilateral Trade Agreement 1975	1975-1982	2
Regional industrial development / decentralisation incentive documents	1981-1992	2
Statistics Act and census regulations	1957	2
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 34 of 1995	1995	2
Union Gazette Extraordinary (published bills)	1911-1918	2
Union Government Gazette notices on Factory Act regulations	1911-1924	2
Aliens Control Act 1991 and Refugee Act 1998	1991-1998	1
Archives, secrecy and access-to-information legislation	1948-2001	1
Glen Grey Act 1894	1894	1
Government Gazette proclamations of prescribed areas	apartheid era	1
Group Areas proclamations and registers	1950-1989	1
Liquor licensing legislation (Natal 1897, Transvaal 1902)	1897-1940	1
Old Age Pensions Acts and social pensions legislation	1928-1998	1

State archives (49)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other state archives (one-off)	various	36
Private papers of politicians and officials	1870s-1990	27
Native Affairs Department (NTS/NA) files, Central/Transvaal Archives Depot	1911-1960	26
Public Record Office Colonial/Foreign Office records	1795-1990s	14
Government Native Labour Bureau (GNLB/NLB) files	1909-1924	12
Municipal records (various towns)	1900-1999	12
Department of Mines and Industries (MNW) files	1919-1936	10
Cape Archives colonial and VOC records	1652-1930	9
Court and trial records	1934-2007	9
Department of Lands (LDE) and Agriculture (LDB/MLD/R) files	1909-1959	7
Unpublished evidence to state commissions	1914-1958	7
Deeds Office records	1850-1951	6
Department of Labour (ARB) files	1924-1945	6
Transvaal colonial and republican archives (SNA, GOV, CS, Volksraad)	1840-1925	6
Department of Justice (JUS) files incl. magistrates' annual reports	1910-1953	5
National Archives of Zimbabwe files	1914-1940	5
National archives of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi (general)	1890-1978	5
Botswana National Archives, Secretariat series	1898-1960	4
Free State (Bloemfontein) Archives	1894-1962	4
South African Police reports	1910-1972	4
Business and Chamber of Mines archives	1912-1965	3
Department of Planning series (BEP)	1950-1969	3
Natal Archives colonial files (SNA, CSO, GH, II)	1855-1909	3
Prime Minister's Office files (PM)	1912-1926	3
Public Health Department files (GES)	1921-1952	3
Social and Economic Planning Council series (SEC 47)	1944-1946	3
Transvaal Archives, Colonial Treasurer and Local Government (CT/TPB/TPS)	1907-1938	3
Asiatic Land Tenure Committee series (ALTC 5)	1944-1946	2
Board for the Decentralisation of Industry records	1970-1992	2
Cape Archives, East London and Simonstown municipal series	1938-1953	2
Cape Archives, Provincial Secretary series (PAS)	1920-1939	2
Directorate of Agricultural Statistics ledger files	1910-2011	2
Durban Town Clerk and Native Administration files	1916-1950	2
Governor-General files (GG)	1912-1915	2
Group Areas Board series (GGR)	1939-1960	2
Handleiding Nasionale Koordineringsmeganisme (1990)	1990	2
Land Tenure Advisory Board series (ARG)	1938-1955	2
Military Intelligence reports on the Broederbond	1943-1944	2
Natural Resources Development Council series (RNH)	1947-1948	2
South African Railways (SAS) files	1910-1931	2
Swaziland National Archives File DO9j2	early 20th century	2
UK report 'United Kingdom's Interests in Southern Africa' (1980)	1980	2
US FOIA State Department documents	1982-1986	2
Ciskei/Whittlesea government archives	1959-1988	1
Commerce/Industry, ECB and related SABA files	1910-1939	1
Department of Development Aid files, Natal Archives (Weenen)	1964-1983	1
Lichtenburg Native Commissioner files (KLI)	1941-1953	1
Natal Native Commissioners/magistrates files	1940-1950	1
State Archives Service records	1963-1990	1

Company records or reports (53)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other company records or reports (one-off)	various	62
Standard Bank Archives, Johannesburg (inspection reports, GMO/GM-LO correspondence)	1860s-1945	10
Barlow Rand / Rand Mines Archives (incl. Eckstein, CMIC)	1886-1942	8
Chamber of Mines Human Resources Laboratory / Research Organization reports	1974-1980	7
Anglo American Corporation Annual Reports and Chairman's Statements	1950-1981	6
Chamber of Mines Annual Reports	1886-1993	5
Anglo American Corporation workforce and accommodation surveys	1986-1993	4
Escom annual reports and records	1927-2001	4
Mine Labour Organisations / TEBA reports and publications	1974-1991	4
Published company histories of banks (Standard Bank, Barclays, etc.)	1860s-2000	4
Anglo American Industrial Relations Department reports	1975-1977	3
Homeland development corporation archives, almanacs and periodicals	1977-1994	3
Industrial Development Corporation annual reports and archive	1950s-1991	3
Infrastructure organisations' data (Eskom, SANRA, Telkom, etc.)	1912-2010	3
McGregor's Who Owns Whom	1980-2006	3	yes
Other South African bank archives and reports (Volkskas, Barclays, NBSA, Netherlands Bank, etc.)	1836-1970	3
Plant-level company labour agreements and management documents	1976-1988	3
Sasol reports and records	1936-2011	3
ARC Annual Reports and Financial Database	1992-2011	2
Anglo American Corporation data on NUM membership	1986-1988	2
Anglovaal 1933-1958: Twenty-five Years of Progress	1933-1958	2
Annual reports/accounts of JSE-listed companies	1976-1999	2
Bantu Investment Corporation annual reports and files	1960-1970	2
Bantu Investment Corporation, Homelands: the role of the corporations (1975)	1959-1975	2
Business Charter	c.1986	2
Corporate submissions to the TRC	1997	2
Fitzpatrick Papers and Charter Consolidated papers	1893-1897	2
IRRC South Africa Review Service reports	1987-1990	2
J. A. Gemmill, 'Native Labour on the Gold Mines' (1961)	1961	2
Mine and mining-group disturbance and conflict reports	1972-1987	2
Mine cost data from Dr A. W. S. Schumann (General Mining)	1977/78	2
Nedbank, South Africa: an Appraisal (1983)	1983	2
Noord-Wes Ko-operasie records	1939-1981	2
Railway administrations / SAR&H / SATS / Spoornet annual reports	1873-2003	2
South African Airways results and passenger figures	1950-2003	2
Standard Bank Reports on Economic Conditions in Southern Africa, 1865-1902	1865-1902	2
Sullivan Principles signatory reports and collections	1975-1990s	2
VOC records (muster rolls, ledgers, accounts)	1633-1795	2
Barclays and Midland Bank annual reports and briefings	1976-1985	1
Durban Mayor's Minute	1923-1950	1
East London firm records and BCI reports	1940-1961	1
Federale Volksbeleggings archives	1938-1990	1
IDC institutional histories (Brayshaw; Cartwright)	1940-1970	1
Iscor reports and board records	1929-1939	1
Mealie Industry Control Board / Maize Board reports	1949-1967	1
Moody's handbooks and manuals	1984-1987	1
Pension fund documentation	1957-2005	1
Sanlam/Sankorp Archives	1917-1994	1
Sugar industry yearbooks and reports	1972-2012	1
Telecommunications supplier and Post Office records	1960s-1984	1
Transkei government and parastatal records	1977-1981	1
Transvaal Gold Mining Estates archives and reports	1895-1955	1
WNLA / TEBA Collection records	1902-1974	1	yes

Population census (17)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Union/Republic of South Africa Population Census (published reports and tabulations)	1911-1991	91	yes
Statistics South Africa Census (1996, 2001, 2011) reports and data	1996-2011	14
Census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope	1865-1904	12
South African Population Census individual-level microdata / public use samples	1960-1996	11	yes
Other population census (one-off)	various	7
Other southern African territorial censuses (Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, SWA/Namibia, labour-sending countries)	1911-1992	6
Census of the Transvaal Colony and Swaziland / Orange River Colony 1904	1904	5
Orange Free State and South African Republic censuses	1856-1890	5
Union censuses of the European/White population (quinquennial)	1918-1941	5
Census of British South Africa 1904 (incl. European adult male counts)	1904	4
Census of the Colony of Natal	1891-1904	4
Independent bantustan censuses	1980-1991	4
Malawi population censuses	1931-1998	4
Botswana population censuses	1971-1991	3
Census enumerators' returns and summary returns	1911-1985	3
Report on the British Bechuanaland census 1891	1891	2
Lesotho/Basutoland censuses	1956-1980	1

Author survey or fieldwork (49)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other author survey or fieldwork (one-off)	various	75
author_survey_or_fieldwork: other personal observation/travel (one-off)	various	11
Keiskammahoek Rural Survey	1948-1952	5
Author's 1981 visit to South Africa (informal observation)	1981	3
De Klerk survey of 61 Western Transvaal maize farms and related papers	1968-1982	3
McNamara/Human Resources Laboratory (Chamber of Mines) mine hostel research	1970-1988	3	yes
Moll, Output and Productivity Trends in South Africa (PhD Cambridge 1990)	1920-1985	3
Schlemmer/Moller CASS (University of Natal) worker, migrant and squatter surveys	1976-1984	3
1986 survey of white South African opinion on sanctions and negotiations	1986	2
Albany/Eastern Cape farm labour surveys (Roberts 1957-59, Antrobus 1977, Roberts 2008)	1957-2008	2
Chamber of Mines Human Sciences Laboratory attitude survey of ex-miners (Masipa)	c.1973-74	2
Delimitation and other commissions' own inspection tours	1947-1973	2
Deloitte and Touche HER capital projects and donor surveys	1993-1996	2
Labour Monitoring Group, March 1985 Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage stayaway study	March 1985	2
Labour Monitoring Group, November 1984 stayaway report and 71-factory survey	November 1984	2
Lucas annual time-series data appendix for southern African labour migration	1946-1978	2
Mabin fieldwork on Pilgrim's Rest land clearances	1970s-1980s	2
Martin West observation of Langa Commissioner's Courts	1981	2
National Review on Land Degradation workshops/survey of extension officers (367 districts)	1997-1998	2
Neethling farm management survey of OFS maize farms (Bulletin 81)	1927-28	2
ReHMIS national health facility survey	1992/93	2
Schultz and Mwabu 1997, Yale EGC Discussion Paper 776 appendix tables	1993	2
Seidman Mandela Park household survey	1992-1993	2
Southern African Migration Project surveys	1997-2001	2
Surveys of decentralised industrialists (Todes & Watson, Addleson et al., Tomlinson, Krieg)	1982-1985	2
University of Natal Black/White Income Gap Project manufacturing surveys	1973-1977	2
Valentine and McIntyre private sector health expenditure survey (HER Technical Paper 9)	1992/93	2
Van Warmelo survey of the African population of the Transvaal	1934	2
Von Holdt Highveld Steel research and PhD thesis	1980-2000	2
Vulindlela (Inadi) household surveys (Hofmeyr, Bromberger)	1981-1990	2
1981 Transkei business survey and agricultural questionnaire	1980-1981	1
Beall, Mkhize and Vawda eThekwini traditional authority research	2001-2005	1
Bureau of Market Research income/expenditure and market potential reports	1970-1976	1
Cobbett and Nakedi Botshabelo surveys and Onverwacht employer interviews	1984-1987	1
Eddie Webster foundry/union research (thesis, questionnaires, shop steward sample)	c.1980-1984	1
George fund case studies and stakeholder ratings	1980-2006	1
HSRC migration surveys (incl. SAMHS)	1998-2002	1
Manona fieldwork in Grahamstown and Sunridge farm	1983-1984	1
Molapo study at Western Deep Levels	1992-1993	1
Natal farm wage surveys (SRC Wages Commission and Behrmann)	1962-1975	1
Peele and Morse survey of white Cape Town voters	1970-1973	1
Richard Ellis SA research on state property	c.1987	1
SAAU survey of farm population and labourers	1969	1
SALDRU/UCT Cape Peninsula migrant labour project surveys (hostels, employers, Schneier household survey)	1981-1982	1
Schapera Tswana ward surveys and Roberts Rampedi restudy	1934-1973	1
Sharp and Spiegel fieldwork in Matatiele and Qwaqwa	1982-1984	1
Stellenbosch Greater Cape Town employer and household surveys	1978	1
Surplus People Project, Forced Removals in South Africa (5 vols) and SPP surveys	1960-1982	1	yes
Urban Foundation influx control research	1983	1

International trade or finance data (26)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other international trade or finance data (one-off)	various	113
World Bank World Development Report	1965-1994	10
IMF International Financial Statistics	1960-2005	8
World Bank World Development Indicators	1950-2001	8	yes
ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics and related labour data	1950s-1994	5	yes
World Bank World Tables	1950-1990	5
World Bank reports and databases (various)	1960-2003	5
South African Foreign Trade Statistics (Customs and Excise)	1957-2004	4
South African Reserve Bank data and publications	1955-2003	4	yes
UNCTAD Handbook of International Trade and Development Statistics	1955-1988	4
OECD other data (agricultural policy, aid, unemployment)	1960s-2003	3
Penn World Table	1950-2008	3
Summers and Heston international comparisons (UN ICP)	1950-1980	3
World Bank Trade and Production Database	1978-1999	3
FAOSTAT database	1961-2009	2
Gold price series	1903-1994	2	yes
ILO Conventions and instruments	1919-1998	2
IMF Direction of Trade Statistics	1970-2000	2
OECD Financial Statistics / Financial Market Trends	1970-1987	2
World Bank World Debt Tables / Global Development Finance	1987-2002	2
Bank for International Settlements debt data	1981-1984	1
IMF Balance of Payments Statistics	not specified	1
International Institute of Agriculture world maize production and trade figures	1920-1930	1
UN COMTRADE database	1978-1999	1
UN Population Division population and migration statistics	1950-2003	1
UNIDO industrial statistics	1960s-2004	1	yes

Union or movement records (53)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other union or movement records (one-off)	various	34
ANC policy documents and statements	1980s-1994	5
COSATU policy/training documents and SALB labour movement accounts	1986-1995	5
NUM reports, studies and publications	1980s-1995	5
Records of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUC/TLC/SATUC/TUCSA), Wits Historical Papers	1925-1986	5
Union membership figures (compiled/claimed)	1926-1990s	5	yes
Black Sash Advice Office (Athlone etc.) case files and reports	1960s-1982	4
COSATU membership estimates (Baskin and others)	1985-1993	4
Garment Workers Union records	1923-1966	4
COSATU/FOSATU statements, resolutions and publications	1982-1989	3
FOSATU Worker News	1983-1985	3
Iron Moulders Society records	1921-1971	3
J.A. Grobbelaar, Some Views, Impressions and Conclusions on the Riots and Labour Unrest in the Mining Industry (TUCSA, 1975)	1975	3
National Party manifestos, pamphlets and congress proposals	1938-1977	3
COSAS / Stayaway Committee pamphlets	1984	2
Draft SACCOLA/COSATU Charter, SALB 16(7)	1992	2
FOSATU / CUSA annual reports and union records	1981-1984	2
Left/critical submissions to the TRC	1997	2
Letter from Mineworkers' Union Welfare Officer to H. Griffiths, 28 August 1979	1979	2
NUM Development Unit records	1987-1994	2
NUM signed-up membership figures	1982-1987	2
Rheinallt Jones / SAIRR papers, Wits	1937-1953	2
Union and management documents provided by NUMSA	1980s-1996	2
AAM and ELTSA reports	1969-1991	1
AEU South African Council minutes and Monthly Journal (with Saamtrek)	1918-1960	1
ANC Archives, Fort Hare	1980s	1
ANC records, AD 1812, Wits Historical Papers	1955	1
AZAPO policy documents, conference papers and newsletters	1979-1983	1
Bloedfontein Community documents	1977-1985	1
Broederbond archives as reported by E. Stals	1934-1947	1
Building trade unions records (ASW reports, Hartwell collection, Building Worker)	1956-1972	1
Cape National Party collection, PV 27 (INCH)	1914-1952	1
Dutch Reformed Church mission council minutes and conference proceedings	1929-1947	1
EATUSA/EAWTUSA union records (NEC minutes, Sparky, pamphlets, membership)	1970-1989	1
Finnish Transport Workers' Union (SAKT/AKT) minutes and annual reports	1961-1990	1
Gail Gerhart Black Consciousness Movement Collection	1970s	1
KAF board minutes	1964-1985	1
Leaked Broederbond documents (circulars, reports, policy papers)	1958-1977	1
NEUM / AAC documents	1945-1954	1
National Forum documents	1983-1986	1
Nordic/Scandinavian transport union and federation reports	1962-1987	1
Power, official journal of SAEWA	1939-1986	1
Progressive Party records	1966-1972	1
Reports of the Annual Trades Union Congress	1945-1964	1
SACP / African Communist documents	1962-1993	1
SAK executive committee minutes	1983-1985	1
SATLC memoranda and minutes	1949-1955	1
Solidarity (BCMA journal) and BCMA resolutions	1978-1985	1
TUATA archive and periodical	1966-1980	1
Trades Union Congress Archive, Modern Records Centre, Warwick	1945-1970	1
UDF and affiliate pamphlets and discussion documents	1983-1986	1
United Party Papers	1939-1958	1
WPSA/Lenin Club and International Communist League documents	1932-1936	1

Parliamentary debates (14)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
House of Assembly Debates (Hansard), Union/Republic of South Africa	1910-1994	82
Other parliamentary debates (one-off)	various	12
Cape Parliament debates, Votes and Proceedings and select committees	1854-1910	8
British Parliament papers, Hansard and committee evidence	1835-1991	6
Union Parliament select committee reports (other)	1910-1955	6
Senate Debates (Hansard), Union/Republic of South Africa	1910-1980	5
U.S. Congressional hearings and debates on South Africa	1966-1986	5
Debates of the National Assembly (post-1994 Hansard)	1994-2008	4
Natal Legislative Council debates and papers	1857-1908	2
Orange Free State Volksraad Notulen and resolutions	1854-1899	2
Select Committee on the Gold Standard	1932	2
Transkeian Legislative Assembly speeches	1970-1972	2
Malawi Parliament addresses by President Banda	1980-1983	1
Select Committee on Hertzog's Native Affairs Bills (SC10-1927)	1927	1

Interviews oral history (69)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Oral History Project, African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand	1979-1989 interviews	7
Greenberg and Giliomee interviews with labour bureau and TEBA officials	1979-1983	5
Moodie and Ndatshe interviews with Mpondo miners, clerks and Xhosa-speaking women	1984-1990	4
Author interviews with planners (Fair, Davies, Mallows et al.)	1990-1994	3
Business and labour submissions to the TRC business hearings	1997-1998	3
Interviews in Pietermaritzburg (TEBA official, Trevor Nel), April 1984	1984	3
Personal conversation with Francis Wilson, October 2011	2011	3
Schirmer oral interviews, Lydenburg district	1990-1993	3
Author interviews with banks, corporations, Treasury OFAC and State Department officials	1988	2
Author interviews with union, employer and state officials incl. Baskin	1992-1993	2
Chirwa interviews with Malawian migrants	1989-1994	2
Coplan and Thoahlane interviews with Lesotho ex-miners	1992-1994	2
Craig Williamson testimony to the TRC	1997	2
Crush interviews with mine personnel and miners	1984-1993	2
Delius interviews (Phala, Sekhukhune)	1987	2
Discussions with Chamber of Mines HRL staff and mining engineers	1978-1979	2
Head interviews with TEBA/Wenela/NUM officials	1987-1994	2
Interview with Terry Crawford-Browne, Cape Town, January 1997	1997	2
Interviews with Broederbond members (P.J. Meyer et al.)	1972-1975	2
Interviews with Jay Naidoo and Sam Shilowa (SALB) and Business Day	1991-1992	2
Interviews with former Native Affairs officials (Carr, Olivier, Bourquin, Rodseth)	1984-1989	2
Interviews with industrialists in Transkei/Ciskei	1983-1985	2
Interviews with mine medical officers (Packard and Coetzee)	1993	2
Interviews with mining industry personnel and executives	1998-2000	2
Interviews with stayaway participants incl. PEYCO president	1984-1985	2
Knight interviews/case studies of mining group, sugar estate, timber company	1965-1975	2
Michael de Klerk farmer interviews and seasonal worker surveys	1982	2
Personal communication, Jean Leger	1988	2
Personal communications with Department of Agriculture and industry officials	2006-2012	2
Phillip Bonner oral history interviews, Rand	1984-1994	2
S. Terreblanche testimony before TRC business hearing	1997-1998	2
Surplus People Project interviews	1979-1983	2
Thabane interviews with Lesotho co-operatives	1994	2
Tony Fleischer interviews by D. Yudelman	1984	2
Von Holdt interviews with Highveld Steel trade unionists and William Matlala	1993-1996	2
Allison Drew interviews (Tabata, Gool, Alexander, Jordaan, Dudley)	1987-1988	1
Beall, Mkhize, Vawda interviews eThekwini	2001-2004	1
Beinart and Murray fieldwork interviews around Thaba Nchu	1993	1
Beinart oral interviews in Pondoland	1976-1977	1
CLRRG interviews, University of Natal	1983-1984	1
D.T. George expert interviews	2005	1
Delimitation Commission 1952 oral evidence	1952	1
Delimitation Commission 1965 public meetings and interviews	1965	1
Delimitation Commission 1973 hearings and submissions	1973	1
Fourteenth Delimitation Commission interviews	1980	1
Gail Gerhart interviews (Biko, Alexander)	1972-1985	1
Giliomee interviews with Mandela, civil servants and cabinet ministers	1984-1992	1
Gould interviews with trade unionists and officials	1977-1979	1
Guy and Thabane oral history with ex-miners, ISAS NUL	1983	1
Gwendolen Carter field interviews	1948-1957	1
Interviews on SOFSAB and Thaba'Nchu violence	1986-1987	1
Interviews with Eglin, Godsell, Oppenheimer et al.	1978	1
Interviews with Port Elizabeth native administrators	1988-1989	1
Interviews with Western Areas, TEBA, NUM, OTM and job-seekers	1993-1994	1
Interviews with trade unionists, employers and officials	1979-1982	1
Kynoch interviews on Marashea	1998-1999	1
Maller case studies (Jabula Foods, Cashbuild)	1990-1992	1
Massie author interviews	1986-1993	1
Native Affairs Commission Enquiry into the Token System, Dundee	1938	1
Nerys John interviews on Barclays campaign	1998-1999	1
Nigel Gibson interviews with Black Consciousness activists	1987	1
Oral accounts of Qwaqwa and Matatiele informants	1940s-1970s	1
Personal communications (Venters et al.)	2008-2009	1
Raymond Suttner interviews with UDF/ANC activists	1986-2004	1
Seekings interviews Duduza and Union Carriage	1986-1990	1
Stemmet interviews with PW Botha et al.	2000	1
Tatham interviews with historians	1989	1
Travel-account informants on labour and wages, 1903	1899-1903	1
Webster seven company case studies	1983-84	1

Other (21)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
other: letters, memoranda and archival documents (one-off)	various	24
other: published books, memoirs and travel accounts (one-off)	various	21
other: organisational reports, papers and data (one-off)	various	20
other: speeches and public statements (one-off)	various	11
other: unattributed figures and data	various	10
Other other (one-off)	various	8
other: author-compiled tables and data	various	4
Law reports and court decisions (incl. Native Appeal Courts)	1883-1978	3
Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916)	1913-1916	3
Carlton Centre conference and PM-business meetings speeches	1979-1983	2
Court revelations on SAAWU and security police in East London	1980s	2
Eiselen address to SABRA Congress, 1955	1955	2
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (1979), entry 'South Africa'	1979 edition	2
Marx 1870 letter to Meyer and Vogt	1870	2
Ramos address on GEAR targets (1999)	1999	2
Sauer Report (Verslag van die Kleurvraagstuk-kommissie van die HNP)	1947	2
Black Sash memoranda and advice office reports	1971-1977	1
Bureau for Economic Policy and Analysis (Univ. Pretoria) publications, incl. Lombard	1978-1981	1
McGregor Research Services schedules and talks	1987	1
National Party corruption barometer and fraud estimates	1994-1997	1
Public statements of South African and foreign actors, July 1985 (incl. Howe speech)	July 1985	1

Household or labour survey microdata (23)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other household or labour survey microdata (one-off)	1950-2008	26
Bureau of Market Research household income and expenditure surveys	1960-1987	10
Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (SALDRU/World Bank household survey)	1993	10	yes
household_or_labour_survey_microdata: other opinion polls	1970s-2001	10	yes
Current Population Survey	1977-1987	8	yes
October Household Survey	1994-1999	7
National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS)	2008-	6
CASE survey of COSATU shop stewards (Pityana and Orkin, Beyond the Factory Floor)	1991-1992	3
Schlemmer/Moller University of Natal (CASS) worker attitude surveys	1977-1984	3
Statistics South Africa Income and Expenditure Surveys	1995, 2000	3
World Bank large manufacturing firm surveys	1998-2000	3
Central Statistical Service 1985 household survey (white households)	1985	2
HSRC Baseline Survey of Industrial Training	2000	2
Lesotho Labour Force Survey 1985/6	1985-1986	2
Maize production cost surveys	1945-1985	2
Mark-en-meningsopnames (Markinor) polls for Rapport	1976-1983	2
Market Research Africa housing/accommodation surveys for Anglo American	1986-1990	2
South African Internal Migration Survey	1999-2000	2
Wood and Psoulis national survey of COSATU members	c.2001	2
Afrobarometer surveys, South Africa	2000-	1
London Sunday Times South African opinion polls	1985-1986	1
Manpower Surveys data tapes	1965-1990	1	yes
Population census public use samples	1970, 1980	1	yes

Chamber of mines or recruiting records (20)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Chamber of Mines Annual Reports	1889-1993	14
Chamber of Mines labour force and recruitment figures (unattributed)	1933-2000	12
Other chamber of mines or recruiting records (one-off)	various	10
Chamber of Mines Archive (CMA) files and internal correspondence	1904-1982	7
Native Recruiting Corporation / Mine Labour Organisations records	1923-1979	6	yes
Chamber of Mines health and medical records	1960-1993	5
WNLA / Mine Labour Organisations (Wenela) Annual Reports	1902-1978	5
Chamber of Mines Statistical Tables	1920-1993	4
Chamber of Mines/TEBA industry data on recruitment, VRGs and labour composition	1968-1985	4
TEBA Annual Reports and published statistics	1973-1985	4
Chamber of Mines and recruiting organisation records (general/historical)	1887-1980s	3	yes
TEBA database / Manpower Data Centre records	1896-1996	3
Chamber of Mines February Report 1979	1979	2
Chamber of Mines submission to 1944 commission on native wages	1944	2
Employment by source area and mining house tables (Crush)	1960-1993	2
Mine Labour Organisations (N.R.C.) Ltd., Reports and Financial Statements	1966-1972	2
Principal Sources of Mine Labour, 1920-83 appendix	1920-1983	2
TEBA Liaison Division (TEBALD) unrest files and reports	1971-1982	2
TEBA Gaborone / Botswana office records	1976-1986	1
TEBA Lilongwe office records	1977-1987	1

Employer association records (29)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other employer association records (one-off)	various	27
ASSOCOM records and publications	1960-1988	4
Transvaal Chamber of Mines Annual Reports and presidential addresses	1890-1950	4
Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut statements and reports	1957-1985	3
Industrial Council agreements and minimum wage rates	1973-1990s	3	yes
SAAU annual reports and General Council reports	1960-1984	3
1967 Metal and Engineering Industrial Council Agreement	1967	2
Business organisation submissions to the TRC	1997	2
Commodity organisation and board data	1910-2012	2
FCI archival reports on decentralisation (IDC Archives)	1972-1985	2
FCI memoranda, survey reports and Non-European Affairs Files	1951-1968	2
Federated Chamber of Industries Annual Convention minutes and reports	1921-1958	2
Gold Producers' Committee evidence to Witwatersrand Mine Natives' Wages Commission	1943	2
IANA congress proceedings	1953-1972	2
NAU 'Service Conditions of Bantu on Farms in Natal'	1971-1973	2
Natal Agricultural Union archives and congress resolutions	1911-1953	2
Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce Annual Reports	1870-1899	2
SAAU 'Bantu Labour Policy'	1974	2
UK-South Africa Trade Association publications	1982-1991	2
Border Chamber of Industries archive	1940-1963	1
Cape Town Chamber of Commerce Annual Reports	1882-1899	1
Chamber of Mines Statistical Tables	1984-2001	1
Chamber of Mines of South Africa publications 2002-2005	1991-2005	1
Commercial Opinion	1960-1968	1
Federated Chamber of Industries Annual Reports	1971-1983	1
SAAU 'The Farm Population and Labourers of South Africa'	1969-1970	1
Standard Bank Archives	1912-1973	1
Syfrets Archives, Association of Trust Companies Minute Books	1932-1962	1
WNLA reports and Board of Management minutes	1902-1971	1

National accounts macro (15)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin / national accounts database	1910-2002	12	yes
national_accounts_macro: other unattributed figures	1918-1993	11
Other national accounts macro (one-off)	various	10
SARB, A Statistical Presentation of South Africa's National Accounts (Supplement to Quarterly Bulletin)	1946-1980	4
World Bank data, reports and macroeconomic model	1960-2007	4	yes
SARB / Statistics South Africa real GDP per capita series	1911-2003	3
Lesotho Bureau of Statistics national income accounts and Cobbe migrant data	1980-1991	2
Real GDP growth rates 1950-1990 (Moll 1990; SARB Quarterly Bulletins)	1950-1990	2
SARB estimates of private consumption expenditure on medical goods and services	1983/84-1992/93	2
SARB long-run GDP and agricultural GDP series (2011) with Stats SA data	1910-2010	2
South African Reserve Bank Annual Economic Report	1969-1977	2
Unattributed macro growth and sanctions-cost estimates	1986-1989	2
Frankel and Herzfeld national income estimates	1911-1943	1
South Africa's balance of payments 1946-2000 (SARB QB Supplement)	1946-2000	1
Statistics South Africa, South African Statistics	1946-1994	1

Maps spatial data (13)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other maps spatial data (one-off)	various	17
Delimitation Commission maps and boundary descriptions (Surveyors-General / Trigonometrical Survey)	1912-1980	5
Perry-Castañeda Library homeland/political maps and Municipal Demarcation Board boundaries	1986; 2011 boundaries	5	yes
Great Circle distance data between capitals (Haveman trade resources)	time-invariant	3
Official topographical and topo-cadastral map sheets (Directorate/Chief Director of Surveys and Mapping)	various	3
Board 1967, Southern Africa, in Africa in Transition (map base)	c.1914	2
DBSA map of Spatial Development Initiatives	1999	2
Homeland boundary and resettlement camp GIS data (SPP and Moerdijk maps)	1980s	2
Map of African Reserves under the 1913 Natives Land Act	1913	2
Maps of African population distribution in Eastern Transvaal	1970, 1980	2
Regional Industrial Development Programme and Board for Decentralisation maps	1970s-1980s	2
Swaziland maps of royal elements and chieftaincies (from Crush 1980b)	1907	2
Satellite and land cover data (NLC, AVHRR NDVI, MODIS)	1985-2005	1

Agricultural census (3)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Agricultural Census / Census of Agricultural and Pastoral Production (Union/RSA), 1918-	1918-2007	28	yes
1960 Agricultural Census: Basutoland (Morojele)	1960	1
Other agricultural census (one-off)	various	1

Election returns (15)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other election returns (one-off)	1915-1989	9	yes
Independent Electoral Commission election results (www.elections.org.za)	1994-2011	5	yes
Schoeman (1977), Parlementêre verkiesings in Suid-Afrika 1910-1976 (constituency and referendum returns)	1910-1989	4	yes
1948 general election results	1943-1948	3	yes
1977-1983 general election and by-election results (incl. April 1981 general election)	1977-1983	3	yes
March 1992 whites-only referendum result	March 1992	3	yes
April 1994 democratic election results	1994-1996	2
Government Gazette election returns and Chief Electoral Officer voters' lists and registration data	1910-1958	2	yes
1987 House of Assembly election and by-election results	1981-1987	1	yes
C. van den Bos, 'Elections' (United Party typescript, 1954)	1910-1954	1
Coloured Persons' Representative Council election returns 1969	1969	1
Heard, General Elections in South Africa 1943-1970	1943-1970	1
Reynolds (ed.) 1994, Election '94 South Africa	1994	1
Strangwayes-Booth, A Cricket in the Thorn Tree - election returns	1961-1970	1
Weide and Weide, Die Volledige Verkiesingsuitslae van Suid-Afrika 1910-1986	1910-1986	1

Industrial mining census (4)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Industrial Census / Census of Manufacturing (South Africa)	1950-1996	17	yes
Census of Industrial Establishments (Union of South Africa)	1915/16-1949/50	5	yes
Census of Manufacturing: Principal Statistics on a Regional Basis	1956/57-1988	2
Census of Industrial Production (Southern Rhodesia)	1938-1952	1

Stock market financial data (8)

Source	Coverage	Works	Held
Other stock market financial data (one-off)	various	4
CRSP stock return database	1969-1991	2
Johannesburg Stock Exchange indices and share price data	1980-2003	2	yes
Standard & Poor's stock guide and S&P 500 composition data	c.1980s	2
Financial Times daily South African financial data	1980s-1990	1
JSE / McGregor-BFA market structure data compiled by Genesis Analytics	1989-2000	1
Moody's debt and commercial paper ratings	1983-1984	1
Wilshire Associates index and return computations	c.1973-1984	1