South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-05

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	SANAC
Coverage	1903-1905
Works using it	12

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	4
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	4
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Education, Bantu Education and skills	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Brookes (1924)	South African Native Affairs Commission (Inter-Colonial Commission), 1903-5, Report and Evidence (Vols I-V)	1903-1905	Recommendations on land, labour, franchise, education and missions; witness evidence (Dower, Samuelson, Fraser, Windham) used throughout.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-5, vol. 1 Report	1903-1905	Supplies the estimated native labour demand and supply table and recommendations on land and labour.
Jeeves (1975b)	South African Intercolonial Native Affairs Commission 1903-1905 (SANAC), Minutes of Evidence vols II and IV	1903-1905	African and official testimony on awareness of Rand conditions and on mine owners' slowness to see self-interest in reducing mortality.
Keegan (1979)	South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-1905, evidence (Cape Town, 1904), Vol IV	1903-1905	Evidence on African accumulation of stock and equipment after the war and on post-war conditions of tenure.
Kerr (1958)	South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-5, Report, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices (5 vols.)	1903-1905	Evidence from judges and magistrates on the purposes of the Natal Code, its errors, rigidity (lobolo values) and the weight of opinion against a civil code.
Mabin (1991a)	South African Native Affairs Commission and Beaumont Commission	c.1903-05; 1913-16	Background on commissions that stalled on or recommended the allocation of reserve land.
Mabin (1991b)	South African Native Affairs Commission and Beaumont Commission reports	c.1903-05 and 1913-16	Background on how reserve land questions were stalled and how additions to reserves were recommended.
Maylam (1990)	South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-1905, Minutes of Evidence, Vol. III	1903-1905	Evidence of Superintendent of Police R.C. Alexander on barracks, passes and control of African labour in early Durban.
McGrath et al. (2004a)	South African Native Affairs Commission 1903–1905 evidence (5 vols) and Cape Archives/Transvaal Archives files	1903–1905; 1940–41	Witness testimony and archival correspondence (Moila Reserve file NTS 8537) to show colonial and employer attitudes to African industrial and agricultural education.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	Report of the South African Native Affairs Commission 1903-1905 (SANAC), minutes of evidence and written replies	1903-1905	Evidence from witnesses (Muir, Roberts, Sauer, Merriman, Whitaker) on white attitudes to African industrial and agricultural education.
Olivier (1929)	Report of the South African Native Affairs Commission, 1905	1903-1905	Extensively quoted (by section number) for native labour supply and demand, land, taxation and compulsion recommendations, and as evidence of employers' views of native labour.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912)	Report of the Native Affairs Commission (suggestion of native representatives)	c. 1903-05	Cited by delegates for separate native representation.