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Transvaal Local Government (Stallard) Commission 1921-22

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Transvaal Local Government Commission
Coverage 1921-1922
Works using it 11

Debates

Debate Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 7
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Chaskalson and Duncan (1984) Report of the Transvaal Local Government Commission (Stallard Commission), 1922 1922 Quoted to show that the principle of admitting Africans to towns only to serve white needs was enunciated early and underlies later legislation.
Christopher (1990) Report of the Transvaal Local Government Commission, T.P. 1-1922 1922 Quoted to show the official doctrine that Blacks were 'temporary sojourners' in towns underlying the Natives (Urban Areas) Act.
Christopher (1994b) Transvaal Local Government Commission 1922 report 1922 Quoted to show that urban areas were seen as the 'domain of the White Man'.
Davenport (1969) Report of the Transvaal Local Government (Stallard) Commission, TP 1-1922 1922 Supplies the Stallard doctrine that Africans may be in towns only to serve whites, the ideological benchmark for the whole article.
Frankel (1979) Transvaal Provincial Report of the Local Government Commission (1922) (Stallard Commission) 1922 Source of the Stallard doctrine on towns as white areas.
Mabin (1990) Report of the Transvaal Local Government Commission (Stallard), 1921 1921 Cited (via Smit) for the link between town planning and neglected housing/segregation.
Massey (1983) Transvaal Local Government Commission, 1921 1921 Quoted for the official attitude that Africans be admitted to urban areas only as temporary labor, motivating institutionalized migrancy.
Maylam (1990) Stallard Commission (Transvaal Local Government Commission) Report 1922 and Young-Barrett Committee report 1935 1922, 1935 Used as the two poles of central-state debate on urbanisation (Stallardism vs stabilisation); text quoted via Davenport.
Savage (1984) Stallard Commission (Transvaal Local Government Commission, T.P. 7, 1922) 1921-22 Source of the Stallard doctrine that Africans may be in towns only as long as whites need them.
Simons (1956) Transvaal Local Government (Stallard) Commission, 1921 1921 Quoted to show the official doctrine that Africans are temporary sojourners in urban areas.
Trapido (1970) Stallard Commission Report (1922) 1922 Shows that the 'redundant Native' concept used in homelands policy had precedent in 1922.