Sauer (HNP Colour Question) Commission Report

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Herenigde Nasionale Party
Coverage	1945-1947
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Evans (1997)	Sauer Commission Report (National Party, 1947)	1947	Used as the NP's electoral blueprint to show its interventionist, labor-bureau and reversal-of-urbanization vision.
Giliomee (2003)	Verslag van die Kleurvraagstuk-kommissie van die HNP (Sauer Report, 1947)	1947	Used for the NP's formulation of apartheid, its mission-policy language and its labour 'surplus' emphasis.
Korf (2010)	Report of the Sauer commission on the Coloured community (1945) and Kleurvraagstuk-Kommissie report (1947), DFM 1/1/2211 and 1/1/2256	1944-1947	Source of the party's formal apartheid proposals on Coloured, African and Indian policy.
Posel (1987)	Sauer Report (Verslag van die Kleurvraagstuk Kommissie van die Herenigde Nasionale Party, 1947)	1947	Text analysed to show that its long-term goals and short-term proposals combine incompatible 'total segregation' and 'practical' apartheid blueprints.