TEBA Gaborone / Botswana office records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	TEBA Gaborone
Coverage	1976-1986
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Taylor (1990)	TEBA Budget Analyses, TEBA Gaborone (January-August 1985)	January-August 1985	Provides recruitment, fixed and average costs per mineworker by TEBA office (Table 8) to argue that remote offices such as Francistown are uneconomic.
Taylor (1990)	TEBA Gaborone Schedule A Forms, 1985 (length of service and time at home)	1985	Establishes that Batswana mineworkers now average about twelve months at the mines and two months at home.
Taylor (1990)	TEBA Gaborone Schedule A: Analysis of recruits forwarded 1982-85	1982-1985	Classifies Botswana recruits into specials, previous experience and novices, and by reengagement certificate form (Table 6), and gives length of service and home leave.
Taylor (1990)	TEBA Gaborone distribution of Batswana mineworkers by mining house, 1979 and 1985	1979 and 1985 (as of December 31)	Shows the growing concentration of Batswana on Anglo American and Goldfields mines (Table 7).
Taylor (1990)	TEBA Gaborone transport cost schedule, 1986	1986	Shows transport cost per mineworker rising with distance (Table 9), supporting the logic of closing remote offices and favouring internal recruitment.
Taylor (1990)	TEBA analysis of novices forwarded, January-June 1984	January-June 1984	Compares novice recruitment in Botswana (174) with Bophutatswana (over 5,000) and other TEBA offices to show a squeeze on novice recruitment outside South Africa.
Taylor (1990)	TEBA territorial analyses of recruitment by village of origin, 1976 and 1985	1976 and 1985	Used to map proportional change in recruitment by village (Figure III), restricted to villages with at least 50 recruits and more than 25 percent change.