Theron Commission (Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to the Coloured Population Group), RP 38/1976

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Theron Commission
Coverage	1976
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	3
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
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bekker and Coetzee (1980)	Theron Commission report, RP 38/1976 (Commission of Inquiry into Matters relating to the Coloured Population Group)	1976	Reaffirmation of the policy and evidence on employer preferences.
Bromberger (1978)	Theron Commission Report RP 38/1976 (Coloured unemployment, Table 5.2 participation rates)	1960-1970 data, report 1976	Cited on the unreliability of registered Coloured unemployment and on declining Coloured male participation rates and rising female rates.
Goldin (1984)	Theron Commission Report (RP 38/1976) and its occupational statistics (Tables 4 and 5)	1960-1980 (estimates)	Supplies occupational structure of the Coloured labour force, the wage ratio, the skilled/unskilled trends and the commission's conclusions on unskilled Coloured prospects.
Schirmer (2004)	Commission of Enquiry into Matters Referring to the Coloured Population Group (1976)	1976	Source for Western Cape wage and paternalist labour conditions c1940.