Commission of Enquiry into European Occupancy of the Rural Areas (Du Toit), 1959-60

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union of South Africa
Coverage	1957-1960
Works using it	9

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	6
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	6
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Atkinson (2007)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into European Occupancy of the Rural Areas (1959) and Second Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Agriculture (1970), as cited in Greenberg 1980	1959, 1970	Source for black residents on farms and 438 000 workers leaving agriculture 1960-1971.
Beinart (1994)	Union of South Africa, 1960, Report of the Commission of Enquiry into European Occupancy of the Rural Areas (Du Toit Commission), evidence at K103, Union Archives	1960	Cited for government concern over white rural depopulation until the 1960s.
Christopher (1982)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the European Occupancy of the Rural Areas (1960)	1960	Cited for the official alarm over the 'blackening' of white rural areas that preceded action against labor tenancy.
Delius and Schirmer (2000)	Du Plessis / Commission of Enquiry into European Occupation of Rural Areas report (1960), cited via Soil Conservation Board report	1960	Shows the government's aim of keeping as many white farmers as possible on the land.
Sato (2012)	Du Toit Commission (1960) and Nel Committee (1961) reports, as cited via Davenport and Hunt and Williams	1960-1961	Establishes the shift in state policy toward abolishing labour tenancy.
Schirmer (1999)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into European Occupation of Rural Areas (1960) and Du Plessis Commission (1963)	1957-1963	Shows the state's commitment to keeping whites on the land and its later shift against small farms.
Schirmer (2004)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into European Occupation of Rural Areas (1960)	1957-1960	Documents the 1957 enquiry into rural depopulation and the shift towards opposing land subdivision.
Simkins (1984a)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into European Occupancy of the Rural Areas, Pretoria, 1959 (incl. Chapter 4, South African Police evidence)	1959 (data for 1946-1954)	Used for analysis of the rising African/White ratio and for estimates of Africans on unoccupied farms, which the author uses to explain the census undercount.
Simkins (1984b)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into European Occupancy of the Rural Areas (1959), Chapter 4 and pp.19-20	1959	Used for analysis of the rising African/White ratio and the police estimate of Africans on unoccupied farms.