Beaumont (Natives Land) Commission

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union Government
Coverage	1916-1918
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Brookes (1924)	Report of the Beaumont Commission (1916) and Local Committees' Reports (1918)	1916-1918	Used to show practical difficulties of delimiting additional Native areas and European farmers' protests.
Christopher (1994b)	Beaumont Commission report (1916)	1916	Used for the acreage of White-owned and Crown land exclusively occupied by Blacks and for the recommended additions to the reserves.
De Kiewiet (1941)	Beaumont Land Commission (1916)	1915-1916	Estimates native land capacity and the numbers of natives living on European-owned land.
Nielsen (1922)	Report of the Native Lands Commission (Beaumont Commission), minute by Sir W. H. Beaumont, 1916 evidence	1916	Quoted to claim the great mass of Natives support territorial separation for more land and fixity of tenure.