Native Affairs Commission reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Native Affairs Commission
Coverage	1936-1941
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Clynick (1990)	Native Affairs Commission Committee report on Lichtenburg (Heaton Nicholls and Col. Collins), 4 November 1936, CAD NTS File 1233/308	1936	Main general account of the African rural economy; shows class stratification, land inequality and the 'islands' of African enterprise, and recommends purchase of the Released Area.
Davenport (1969)	Native Affairs Commission Report for 1936; Report of the Native Affairs Commission 1939-40, UG 42-1941, Appendix H (J. M. Young)	1936; 1939-40	The 1936 Report shows the Nicholls-influenced Stallardist turn; Young's 1939 appendix shows earlier criticism of pass laws.
Edgecombe (1987)	Native Affairs Commission, Report of Investigation into the Token System, 1 June 1938 (NTS 7046, file 63/322)	1938	Provides the finding that the token system was a labour retention device, the estimate of permanent colliers, and the recommendation to ban it.