| Arndt (1928) |
British Parliamentary Papers 1826 vol. 23 No. 438, Papers respecting a British Metallic Circulation at the Cape |
1825-1826 |
Documents the Treasury Minute, the Order in Council, the Commissioners of Inquiry letter and rixdollar rates. |
| Arndt (1928) |
Munt Conferentie: Officieele Bescheiden omtrent de Munt Conferentie te Pretoria, February 1893 |
1893 |
Source for the proceedings and draft conventions of the 1893 Mint Conference and gold coin import data. |
| Arndt (1928) |
Theal, Records of the Cape Colony (36 vols., Oct 1793-Apr 1831), Rec. |
1793-1831 |
Main documentary source for proclamations, dispatches, note issues, protests and Lombard Bank history 1795-1830s. |
| Arndt (1928) |
Transvaal Concessions Commission Report, Evidence and Appendix (Cd. 623-625, 1901) |
1890-1900 |
Source for Transvaal Mint coinage output, mint assets and profits, and the bank concessions. |
| Arndt (1928) |
Vertrouwelyke Financieele Stukken meegedeeld door de Deputatie (Amsterdam, 1884) |
1884 |
Supplies the Pierson committee's advice and the Concept Regelment for a Transvaal national bank. |
| Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012) |
Report on the Distribution of Food (SA, 1946, U.G. 31), Sir Henry French |
1946 |
Source of post-war rationing recommendations by British Ministry of Food experts. |
| Bonner (1995) |
Annual Report of the Manager of the Non-European and Native Affairs Department, Johannesburg City Council (1938) |
1938 |
Gives the breakdown of the 88,000-strong male African labour force by residence (domestic backyards, compounds, locations/townships). |
| Bonner (1995) |
Central Archives Depot, Pretoria, NTS 6687, File 310/332, Vol. 2: Report of the Commission on the Disturbances of 30 August 1947 at Moroka Emergency Camp |
1947 |
Establishes that virtually all camp dwellers were in bona fide employment on the Rand. |
| Bradford (1990) |
NTS 1984, 90/279(1): enquiry held at Sibasa, 23 June 1936 |
1936 |
Evidence of chief and recruiters on disappearance of child labour and recruiting practices in the northern Transvaal. |
| Bradford (1990) |
South African Institute of Race Relations, Farm Labour in the Orange Free State: Report of an Investigation (1939), and SAIRR papers (AD 543) |
1939 |
Cited on farmers' views on importing labour and on maize farmers' output. |
| Breckenridge (1995) |
Proceedings of the United Transkeian Territories General Council, 16 April 1932; Magistrate Mount Fletcher cable to Director of Native Labour, 2 June 1932 |
1932 |
Shows rural currency shortage, drought and crop failure in the early 1930s. |
| Brits (1969) |
Report of the Distribution Costs Commission, U.G. 28-1947 (Richards and Penver reservations) |
1947 |
Quoted for the claim that the Marketing Act created a new method of economic organisation and for criticism of producer majorities on boards. |
| Clark (1987) |
SABA, Committee of Inquiry into the Base Mineral Industry (K14), Vol. 7, evidence of A. C. McColm |
1938 |
Evidence on Iscor's higher capital costs relative to European producers. |
| Clark (1987) |
Transvaal Archives (TABA), Power Companies Commission (C40), Volume II |
1909 |
Evidence on VFPC financing by AEG and its ownership structure. |
| Crush and James (1995a) |
1932 Tuberculosis Research Committee report, SAIMR Publication No 30 |
1932 |
Historical evidence of TB risk by years of mine employment. |
| Davenport (1969) |
Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Native Pass Laws, 1920 (Godley), UG 41-1922 |
1920 |
Source for the 1913 Free State unrest over passes for women and for 1920 recommendations of sweeping change. |
| Delius and Schirmer (2000) |
D.L. Smit, A New Era of Reclamation (1945) |
1945 |
Evidences the 1945 policy turn to planning committees, rural villages and a permanent peasantry. |
| Delius and Schirmer (2000) |
D.L. Smit, Statement of Policy Under the Native Trust and Land Act (1937) |
1937 |
Documents the official intention of close supervision and restructuring of Trust land. |
| Duncan (1989) |
Minutes of Conciliation Board, 14 August 1944, and arbitrator Charles Fraser's memorandum on the award, 23/12/44 |
1944 |
Supplies wage rates, compound and ration deductions, and the arbitrator's condemnation of compounds. |
| Duncan (1990a) |
Report of the Mining Regulations Commission (Pittman), U.G. 36-25 |
1924-25 |
Source for the argument linking rising accidents to the falling ratio of white supervisors to black workers (1:7.7 in 1911 to 1:10.1 in 1923). |
| Duncan (1990a) |
Report of the Public Service Commission Inspectors on the sub-department of Native Labour, 1922 |
1922-23 |
Source for recommended staff cuts, reduction of labour districts from eight to four and salary cuts. |
| Edgecombe (1987) |
Lugg Enquiry and Report on Token System, April 1937 (evidence submitted, Report 15 April 1937) |
1937 |
Evidence of mine managers (Ferguson) and Lugg's recommendations to abolish the token system and remove beer licences. |
| Edgecombe (1987) |
Report of the Committee Concerning the Supply of Kaffir Beer on the Natal Coal Mines (Thackwray committee), 27 November 1938 |
1938 |
Describes colliery beer halls, alleged adulteration and recommends abolishing licensed concession beer halls. |
| Ehlers (2007) |
S.C. 11-'39, Report of the Select Committee on the Attorney's Admission Amendment and Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund Bill, 1939 |
1939 |
Source for Barclays superintendent A. Heather's estimate of trust division income and for the association's letter to the government. |
| Halpern (2004) |
Annual Report of the Protector of Indian Immigrants 1911 (CO 551/27/19319, PRO London) |
1911 |
Used for the figure of at least 150,000 Indian indentured labourers imported, noting contradictory statistics. |
| Houghton and Dagut (1973) |
Final Report of the Drought Investigation Commission, 1923, U.G. 49/1923 |
1923 |
Documents drought losses, overstocking, kraaling and soil erosion in white farming areas. |
| Houghton and Dagut (1973) |
H. H. Bennett, Soil Erosion and Land Use in the Union of South Africa, 1945 |
1944-1945 |
Expert assessment of erosion, citing an official estimate of a 25 per cent loss in fertility. |
| Houghton and Dagut (1973) |
Report of the Industrial Legislation Commission, 1935, U.G. 37/1935 |
1935 |
Assesses the Industrial Conciliation, Wage and Apprenticeship Acts, the skilled-unskilled wage gap and the Labour Department's inspectorate (24 to 37 staff, 1927-34). |
| Houghton and Dagut (1973) |
Report of the Select Committee on the Gold Standard, S.C. 9/1932 |
1932 |
Records witnesses' positions on abandoning the gold standard and the committee's advice against it. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Foreign Labour Department Annual Report, 1904-5 |
1904-1905 |
Describes the legal framework, work, wages and food of Chinese indentured labourers. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Report of the Acting Trade Commissioner for 1919 (U.G. 60-'20) |
1914-1919 |
Documents wartime export trends for wattle bark, dried fruit, jam, wine and meat. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Report of the Select Committee on European Employment and Labour Conditions, 1913 (S.C. 9-'13) |
1913 |
Gives findings on white labour with evidence from mining engineers on wages, costs and employment. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Report of the Select Committee on the Industrial Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, 1914 (S.C. 10-'14) |
1914 |
Lists trade unions operating in each province in 1914. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Report of the Transvaal Indigency Commission, 1906-8 (T.G. 13-'08) |
1906-1908 |
Documents causes of indigency, the bywoner system and poor whites, with witness testimony and recommendations. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Report of the Witwatersrand Disturbances Commission, 1913 (Cd. 7112) |
1913 |
Identifies proximate causes of the July 1913 disturbances from a legal viewpoint. |
| Jeeves (1975a) |
Cape of Good Hope, Report of Native Delegates ... G.4-1904 |
1904 |
Source for African views of mine labour and compound conditions. |
| Jeeves (1975a) |
Report on the Mortality of Natives on the mines (committee of mine doctors), in TLC |
c.1903 |
Evidence of Chamber-sponsored research into mortality causes. |
| Johnstone (1971) |
Evidence of African mine workers and their representatives to various government commissions |
1910s-1920s |
Backs the claim that African miners saw low wages rather than the job colour bar as their key grievance. |
| Johnstone (1971) |
First Interim Report of the Unemployment Commission, March 1921, U.G. 16/21 |
1921 |
Supports the estimate that returning to the normal gold price would put 28 mines out of business. |
| Johnstone (1971) |
Report of the Mining Industry Board, 1922, U.G. 39/22 |
1922 |
Source for the Status Quo Agreement text, the gold price and cost squeeze, and the fall in white employment after the 1922 strike. |
| Keegan (1979) |
Magisterial reports (Kroonstad and other districts) |
c.1908-1913 |
Evidence of squatters being ordered to reduce stock and increase labour services. |
| Keegan (1979) |
ORC Poor White Commission, 1908, evidence |
1908 |
Evidence on disintegration of Boer society and pressure on lower white strata. |
| Keegan (1979) |
Union Government Blue Book for Native Affairs, 1911 |
1911 |
Examples of wealthy black peasants with large stock holdings. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Report and Proceedings of the Thembuland Commission of 1882 (G.H. 66-83) |
1882 |
Author re-tabulates cattle, sheep and plough ownership for about 700 households to show stratification Bundy overlooked, and uses it for Gacelo's land sales. |
| Lumby (1974) |
Other official commission/committee reports (Chapman Economic Commission U.G.12/1914; Railway Tariffs Inquiry U.G.56/1929; Select Committee on Gold Standard S.C.9/1932; Industrial Legislation Commission U.G.37/1935; Third Interim Report Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission U.G.40/1941; Cape, Natal and Transvaal tariff commissions 1908; Select Committee 1883) |
1883-1941 |
Used for cost of living, tariff debates, railway rates, gold standard decisions and early protection history. |
| Mabin (1990) |
Report of the Commission of Inquiry (Broome), UG.39-1941 |
1927-1940 |
Supplies comparative Indian property purchase figures in white areas in Natal and the Transvaal. |
| Mabin (1990) |
Report of the Lange Commission, UG.4-1921; Class Areas Bill AB41/24; Select Committee on the 1926 Areas Reservation Bill |
1921-1926 |
Traces earlier attempts at municipal racial zoning of Indians and the Natal Municipal Association's demands. |
| Mabin (1992) |
Reconstruction and planning reports: Department of Agriculture and Forestry Reconstruction Committee (1944-5); Natal Post-War Works and Reconstruction Committee Ninth Interim Report (1945); Durban Post-War Development Special Committee report (1943) |
1943-1945 |
Illustrates the spread of reconstruction and planning thinking, including racial zoning in Durban. |
| Mabin (1992) |
Report of the Select Committee on the Areas Reservation Bill (S.C.9-1926) |
1926 |
Source for the Natal Municipal Association's demand for compulsory Class Areas. |
| Maylam (1990) |
Report of the Judicial Commission on Native Affairs in Durban, 31 January 1948, and Durban City Council memorandum to it |
1948 |
Source of population estimates (1936-49), sex ratios and the official 1946 estimate of 74% migrants. |
| Maylam (1995) |
1914 Tuberculosis Commission report |
1914 |
Cited, via Swanson and Parnell, as showing that official health commissions tied locations and slums to disease and so supported segregation. |
| Maylam (1995) |
1918 Influenza Commission report |
1918 |
Cited with the Tuberculosis Commission as showing the health discourse that linked urban black settlement to segregation. |
| Morrell (1988) |
Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Labour Resources of the Union (1930) |
1930 |
Supports the example of farmers' association labour supply in the Lowveld. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Final Report of the Johannesburg Roads Commission 1904-05 |
1904-05 |
Evidence that the Witwatersrand was seen as 'one great township' requiring regional servicing, leading to the Rand Water Board. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
First Report of the Financial Relations Commission (G. H. Murray), UG 11-1912, incl. Laurence memorandum |
1911-1912 |
Used for Justice Laurence's minority argument for provincial administration of townships and town planning. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Ninth Interim Report of the Post-War Works and Reconstruction Committee regarding Provincial and Town Planning (Natal, 1945) |
1943-1945 |
Used to show racial zoning emerging as central to Natal post-war reconstruction and the idea of a planning commission. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Report of the Cape Peninsula Commission (G21-1902) |
1903 |
Shows the recommendation to amalgamate eight municipalities into greater Cape Town. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Report of the Pretoria Suburban Municipal Commission (Rose-Innes, Chair), 1905 |
1905 |
Shows concern with coordinated sanitation and native control and the recommendation to extend Pretoria's boundaries. |
| Petterson (1951) |
Hugh H. Bennett (US Soil Conservation Service) 1944 caution to the Union on soil erosion |
1944 |
Cited to support the claim that soil erosion on the High Veld is serious and needs control measures. |
| Pogue (2006) |
Milner Commission Report 1903 (African miner death rate) |
1902-1903 |
Baseline mortality of African miners (58 per 1,000) against which health improvements are measured. |
| Schirmer (1994) |
CAD, Native Affairs Department Memo, 31 January 1946 (NTS 222/280, Vol. 2096) on Sekhukhuneland land conditions and the Sub-Native Commissioner's description |
1946 |
Establishes land shortage in Sekhukhuneland and why Africans sought Lydenburg land. |
| Schirmer (1994) |
Stubbs Commission evidence, Lydenburg, 15 October 1917 (Dinkwanyane, Abel Dimpejane, Dirk Kana, Salomon Sipube) |
1917-1918 |
Contrasts how Dinkwanyane's and Manok's communities articulated land claims. |
| Sharp and West (1984) |
Ticket of Occupation for Komaggas (C2-1888: Appendix to Reports of Select Committees) |
1888 (Ticket granted by 1874) |
Shows that the Tickets of Occupation institutionalised racial classification by specifying eligible inhabitants. |
| Sitas et al. (1984) |
A.W.G. Champion's evidence on the Beer Riots (1929) and writings |
1929 |
Evidence on low wages of African workers in Durban around 1929 (£1-£2 a week). |
| Sitas et al. (1984) |
Y.S. Meer et al (eds), Documents of Indentured Labour, Durban, 1976 (incl. Wragg Commission material) |
1860-1911 |
Used for indentured labour conditions and the Wragg Commission episode (John James). |
| Stott (2008) |
Department of Mines (1936) The Mineral Resources of the Union of South Africa |
1936 (descriptive of 1886-1936) |
Source for the geology and geography of the Witwatersrand field, group system and Chamber of Mines functions. |
| Stott (2008) |
Gold Law Commission Report 1901-02 |
1901-1902 |
Cited (via Kaplan) for the finding that owners' rights had grown excessively and for the recommendation to retain werf-mynpachten, evidencing state intent to redefine property rights. |
| Switzer (1990) |
Official reports of the Bulhoek massacre, 1921 (as relied upon by Imvo) |
1921 |
Cited as the basis of Imvo's account exonerating the government, not analysed directly. |
| Switzer (1990) |
Report of the commission investigating the 1920 Port Elizabeth riots (as reprinted in Imvo) |
1920 |
Mentioned only as having been reprinted in full by Imvo, as evidence of the paper's official-line coverage of the riots. |
| Taylor (1978) |
Resident Commissioner's 1898 report and later Resident Commissioner/Resident Magistrate correspondence (e.g. Rey to Chamber of Mines 29/8/33; Serowe magistrate 3/4/34) |
1898-1957 |
Show the Administration's attitudes, the Hut Tax pressure on men to go to the mines, and the recruitment quotas. |
| Van-Helten (1980) |
A. Goerz to Auswartiges Amt, 17 Dec. 1897, in Handels- und Schiffartsverhandlungen (Berlin, 1890-1900) IX |
1897 |
Shows German mining magnate Goerz regarded British rule in the Transvaal as not unwelcome to German interests. |
| Verhoef (2009) |
M.S. Louw memorandum (20/09/38) and 'Die aanwending van die kapitaalkrag van die Afrikaner' in Ekonomiese Volkskongres proceedings, 1939 |
1938-1939 |
Documents the proposal for an Afrikaner finance house modelled on the mining finance houses. |