Smit Committee on Urban Natives

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Inter-Departmental Committee
Coverage	1942
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Cobley (2007)	Smit Committee deliberations (1942) and the 1938 Conference on Urban Native Delinquency	1938-1942	The reviewer reports that Posel traces an incipient social reformism towards urban Africans through these proceedings.
Duncan (1993)	Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Social, Health and Economic Conditions of Urban Natives (Smit Report), 1942	1942	Evidence on shacks, overcrowding, housing shortage and recommendations for housing finance and health visitors.
Legassick (1974)	Report of the Social Security Committee (UG 14-1944) and Report of Interdepartmental Committee on Social, Health and Economic Conditions of Urban Natives (1942)	1942-1944	Evidence for wartime reform proposals and liberal welfare policy.
Simons (1956)	1942 report of senior civil servants headed by Dr Smit, Secretary for Native Affairs	1942	Shows that senior officials urged abolition of the pass laws in 1942.