Natal Native Commissions

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Natal Government
Coverage	1846-1907
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	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)	Natal Native Commissions of 1846-7, 1852-3, 1881-2 and 1906-7 (Reports and Evidence)	1846-1907	Principal sources for Location system, Native population estimates, labour views, Native witnesses on Shepstone, exemption, franchise, and post-Rebellion reform.
De Kiewiet (1941)	Reports of the Natal Native Commission (1881) and Native Laws and Customs Commission, Cape (1883)	1881-1883	Cited as first steps to scientific understanding of native life in an otherwise neglectful period.
Harries (1987)	Natal Native Affairs Commission 1852-53	1852-53	Shows early settler demands to break up locations and import foreign labour.