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Union Native Affairs Commission reports

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Native Affairs Commission
Coverage 1910-1938
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 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
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Brookes (1924) Annual Report of the Union Native Affairs Commission, 1921 (and Department of Native Affairs Report 1913-18; Cape Native Affairs Commission 1910) 1910-1921 Cited on Council system success, Natives' Land Act effects, urban slums, Native education control and survey of allotments.
Dubow (1986) Reports of the Native Affairs Commission (1921 U.G.15-1922; 1924 U.G.40-1925; 1925-26 U.G.17-1927) 1921-1926 Evidence of the Commission's role as expert adviser and of NAD rhetoric on uniformity and protection.
Legassick (1974) Report of the Native Affairs Commission, 1937-38 1937-38 Source of Smuts's 1937 statement on cutting off the influx of Africans into towns.