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Thornton Committee on areas becoming urbanised, UG 8/1940

Literature › Primary sources
Kind commission or official report
Producer Department of Health
Coverage 1938-1940
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 3
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Historiographical approaches 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Mabin (1990) Report of the Committee to investigate areas which are becoming urbanised (Thornton), 1938-39 1938-1940 Used to show official concern about uncontrolled non-African urbanisation and racial mixing.
Mabin (1992) Report of the Committee to investigate the administration of areas becoming urbanised (Thornton), UG.8-1940 1939-1940 Shows official concern about uncontrolled peri-urban settlement and racial mixing.
Maylam (1995) 1939 Thornton Committee report on uncontrolled peri-urban settlement 1939 Shows the Department of Health's involvement in urban settlement policy.