Cape colonial records (VOC and early British)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Cape colonial government
Coverage	1666-1835
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
De Zwart (2012)	G. M. Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, 36 vols.	1795-1835	Supplies wage observations, including Khoikhoi and coloured wages, for the early British period.
De Zwart (2012)	Wagenaar 1666 note on free servants' wages (Moodie, The Record) and Van Imhoff 1743 report (Merriman, Reports of Chavonnes and Van Imhoff)	1666-1743	Scattered evidence that free knechts and free craftsmen earned much more than VOC employees, used to correct VOC wages upward.
Theal (1905)	Despatch of Earl Glenelg, 26 December 1835	1835	Quoted to show British repudiation of D'Urban's settlement as unjust to the Xhosa.
Theal (1905)	Official documents and returns on Cape finances, revenue and paper money (1790s-1830s)	1790-1835	Revenue, expenditure and paper-currency figures illustrate fiscal condition under VOC and British rule.
Theal (1905)	Reports of commissioners and slave-compensation awards, 1833-35	1833-1835	Slave numbers, appraised value and compensation awarded used to argue that emancipation caused ruin among slaveholders.