| Beinart (1982) |
Fox and Back, 'A Preliminary Survey of the Agricultural and Nutritional Problems of the Ciskei and Transkeian Territories' (Chamber of Mines-sponsored) |
c.1938 |
Used for the argument that sheep ruined grazing and for deferred pay and migrancy observations. |
| Davies et al. (1976) |
1926/7 Mining Industry Arbitration Board |
1926-27 |
Cited for the view that national capital did not want mine wage increases. |
| Davies et al. (1976) |
Commission on industrial protection (1930s), report quoted |
1930s |
Shows that even a critical report left the policy of protection largely unchanged. |
| De Kiewiet (1941) |
Brigden Commonwealth Committee report on the Australian tariff (1929) |
1929 |
Cited as comparative economic reasoning about protection in a country dependent on low-grade gold ore. |
| De Kiewiet (1941) |
Drought Commission report (1923) |
1923 |
Supports claim that kraaling of sheep was harmful and that fenced paddocks would raise carrying capacity by over 50 per cent. |
| De Kiewiet (1941) |
Interdepartmental Committee on the Labour Resources of the Union (1930) |
1930 |
Establishes that the great majority of able-bodied reserve males spent part of each year in European service. |
| Devereux (2007) |
Commission on Old-Age Pensions and National Insurance (1926) and Interdepartmental Committee on Poor Relief and Charitable Institutions (1937), cited via Sagner and Human Awareness Programme |
1926-1937 |
Quoted to show the official rationale for excluding natives (native custom) and the later arguments that kraal support was eroding. |
| Dubow (1986) |
Tenth Annual Report of the Public Service Commission (1921), U.G.18-1922 |
1921 |
Establishes the PSC's remit of effecting economies and promoting efficiency. |
| Duncan (1993) |
Government White Paper 1945 (Memoranda on Poor Relief and on Government's Proposals regarding Social Security) |
1945 |
Shows the government's proposals to restrict spending on pensions and unemployment insurance and its coverage estimates. |
| Duncan (1993) |
Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the City of Johannesburg Public Health and Native Affairs Departments, 1935 (GES 82/33) |
1935 |
Finding that Johannesburg cleared slums without building enough location housing. |
| Duncan (1993) |
Report of the National Health Services Commission (Gluckman Report), UG 30-1944 |
1944 |
Evidence on inadequacy of health services, divided jurisdiction and costs of a national scheme (£12m). |
| Duncan (1993) |
UG 8-40, Thornton Committee report on peri-urban areas, 1938-9 |
1938-1939 |
Shows officials' dissatisfaction with local administration of urbanising areas. |
| Evans (1997) |
Young-Barrett Report (Departmental Committee on Residence of Natives in Urban Areas), 1935 |
1935 |
Shows senior officials' repudiation of Stallardism and recommendations on urban census and control. |
| Houghton and Dagut (1972) |
South African Republic: Report of the State Mining Engineer for 1898; State Mining Engineer returns 1894 |
1894-1898 |
Numbers and wages of white and African employees on gold and coal mines. |
| Jeeves (1975b) |
Mining Industry Commission 1907-1908, Report and evidence (Reyersbach) |
1907-1908 |
Evidence of low-grade ore reserves, average yields per ton in 1897 and 1906, and working costs in 1906, plus critique of the commission's reliance on industry data. |
| Johnson (1982) |
Interdepartmental Committee on Native Education, 1936 report |
1936 |
Shows that 70 percent of African children of school age were not at school and that facilities were overcrowded and understaffed. |
| Johnston (1899) |
Commission of inquiry into Algeria, 1870 |
1870 |
Mentioned as the basis for the shift from military to civil rule. |
| Johnston (1899) |
Reports of Captain S. L. Hinde and the King of the Belgians' committee on Congo atrocities |
1890s |
Cited to substantiate the charge of cannibalism among Free State forces. |
| Lewis (1984b) |
Report of the Ministerial Committee on Apprenticeship System Revision (1950) and Commission on Technical and Vocational Guidance (UG65-1948) |
1948-1950 |
Evidence on state restructuring of training, new trades and reduced apprenticeship. |
| Lewis (1984b) |
Reports of SAR&H: General Manager's annual reports, Special Bulletin No. 135, 1934 commission, Encroachment Committee 1935, 1947 committee on unskilled workers (UG29-1947) |
1924-1951 |
Evidence on deskilling, promotion of white labourers, piece-work, bonus work and encroachment on railways. |
| McGrath et al. (2004a) |
Department of Public Education (1929) The Native Primary School; Bot (1936) Empire Exhibition; Huss (1928); Rogers (1949); Loram (1917) tables |
1917–1936 |
Curriculum specifications and school/learner counts (Tables 1 and 2) underpin claims about the agricultural/manual character of African schooling. |
| McGrath et al. (2004b) |
Cape Education Department Native Primary School curriculum (Department of Public Education 1929) and 1936 curriculum (Bot 1936) |
1929-1936 |
Time allocations and syllabus content show the manual and agricultural orientation of African primary schooling. |
| McGrath et al. (2004b) |
Union Education Department Annual Reports (1912, 1925, 1928, 1938, 1946-7, 1941-45, 1952) |
1912-1952 |
Supply institution counts, the COTT training statistics and the policy statements on white industrial and technical education. |
| Milburn and Cole (1957) |
Reports of the New Zealand Industrial Arbitration Courts |
to 1950s |
Cited as showing Federation of Labour pressure on the Arbitration Courts. |
| Murray (1980) |
Schapera, Migrant Labour and Tribal Life (report to the Bechuanaland Administration), 1947 |
1940s |
Evidence that prolonged male absence is associated with conjugal breakdown and desertion, and with greater freedom for wives. |
| Murray (1995) |
Transvaal Mining Regulations Commission, Final Report, 1910 (statement of the President, Transvaal Chamber of Mines) |
1910 |
Establishes that East Coast natives were about half the gold-mine African labour force in 1910. |
| Murray (2006) |
Official sources (colonial and mine-related official records, unspecified) |
c. 1890-1940 |
Used alongside written and oral sources, with their tendency to suppress the 'rebel' acknowledged by the author. |
| Nattrass (1990) |
Report of the non-European Bus Service Commission (1946) |
1946 |
Cited for a black Johannesburg family's required weekly income, showing a large shortfall against wages. |
| Olivier (1929) |
Bishops' Memorandum (Mombasa, Uganda, Church of Scotland Mission) 1919-20 and Lord Milner's/Churchill's despatches on native labour (July 1920, 5 Sept 1921) |
1919-1921 |
Traces controversy over compulsory labour and the government's draft ordinance and its withdrawal. |
| Olivier (1929) |
Report by W. A. Ormsby-Gore on his visit to West Africa 1926 [Cmd. 2744] |
1926 |
Quoted on use of compulsory labour for Nigerian railways and roads. |
| Olivier (1929) |
Report of the Commission on Closer Union of Eastern and Central Africa (Hilton Young), Cmd. 3234, 1929 |
1929 |
Quoted for the principle of paramountcy of native interests and need for land for every native. |
| Olivier (1929) |
Report of the Phelps-Stokes Education Commission on East Central and South Africa (chapter by L. T. Shantz) |
c.1924 |
Used for estimates of native agricultural population, taxation per head, and defence of African agricultural methods. |
| Olivier (1929) |
Royal Commission on Jamaica 1883, statement by Rev. Josiah Cork |
1883 |
Evidence on post-emancipation rents, wages, land purchase and taxation. |
| Schirmer (1995) |
Minutes of Evidence of the Eastern Transvaal Native Land Committee (Stubbs), U.G. 32-18, 1918 |
1917-1918 |
Testimony illustrates long-standing African claims to land against white claims. |
| Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) |
Cape Town Medical Officer of Health, Report for 1902 |
1902 |
Evidence for rising tuberculosis incidence among the poorly housed Coloured population. |
| Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) |
G74-1896, Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1895 |
1895 |
Shows white urban mortality above England and Wales age-specific benchmark, motivating the sanitary reform narrative. |
| Simons (1956) |
Series of government commissions and committees on pass laws (Cape Native Laws and Customs Commission 1885; SANAC 1903-5; Native Pass Laws Committee 1920; Native Economic Commission 1930-2; Committee of 1942 on Urban Africans; Native Laws Commission 1946-8) |
1885-1948 |
Cited collectively as authority for the long record of official criticism of the pass laws. |
| Trapido (1970) |
Mine Natives Wages Commission report (1934 recommendation) |
1934 |
Used to show that the Chamber of Mines rejected a small wage increase for African miners even when profits were rising. |
| Van Schoor (1986) |
Mixed Marriages Commission Report (1937) |
1937 (describing early Cape colonial period) |
Establishes that early Cape society had no colour feeling and that the first colour-discriminatory marriage laws came in 1686. |
| Van Schoor (1986) |
Rose Innes, The Glen Grey Act and the Native Question; Butterworth magistrate's report 1902 |
1902 |
Shows that three of every four able-bodied men in the district went out to work after the Glen Grey Act. |