Cape Native Affairs Blue Books

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Cape Native Affairs Department
Coverage	1874-1904
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Brookes (1924)	Cape Native Blue Books (1874 onwards; annual Magistrates' reports from Transkei, Ciskei, Basutoland)	1874-1900	Supplies district magistrates' reports on tenure, agriculture (ploughs, sheep, wheat), Glen Grey reception, missions and crime.
Jeeves (1975b)	Cape of Good Hope Dept of Native Affairs, Report of Native Delegates, G.4-1904	1904	Source on African awareness of Rand conditions and compound conditions interfering with recruiting.