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Natives Land (Beaumont) Commission 1913-16 and Land Committees 1918

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Natives Land Commission
Coverage 1913-1918
Works using it 9

Debates

Debate Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 6
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987) Minutes of Evidence to the Eastern Transvaal Native Land Committee/Commission 1918 (UG 32-'18) 1918 Evidence on Shangane immigration, TGME landholdings (87,000 morgen), tenant prosperity and the labour tenancy terms.
Feinberg (1993) Report of the Natives Land Commission, 1913-1916, UG 19 (1916) 1913-1916 Source for African landholding in 1910 (2,104,300 acres) and its occupancy.
Keegan (1979) U.G. 22-'16, Natives Land Commission, Evidence (Free State evidence collected 1913) 1913-1916 Testimony on child proportions, stock holdings, labour hours, evictions and Rolong trek.
Keegan (1985) U.G. 22-1916, Natives Land Commission, Minutes of Evidence 1913-1916 Primary testimony on black stockholdings, evictions, trekking, and landlords' and farmers' views of the Act.
Keegan (1986) Natives Land Commission, Minutes of Evidence, UG 22-1916 1916 Evidence of E. R. Grobler cited alongside a 1908 editorial on white farmers' reliance on black squatter tenants.
Morrell (1988) Report of the Natives' Land Commission, Vol. 2 (UG22-1916), and Majority Report of the Eastern Transvaal Natives' Land Committee (UG32-1918) 1916-1918 Farmer testimony (Schuurman) on labour tenant limits and Farmer's Labour Agency; Kuhlmann's evidence.
Nattrass (1976a) Beaumont Commission (Native Land Commission) Report UG 19/1916 1916 Estimates that only 55 per cent of Africans lived in reserves in 1916, used to argue the dichotomisation was incomplete.
Schirmer (1994) Beaumont Commission, Lydenburg, 30 May 1914: Evidence of Chief Manok 1914 Shows Manok's cautious stance towards the Land Act.
Simkins (1981) Beaumont Commission Report (1916 population) 1916 Source of the 1916 reserve population figure used in the per-head series.