Transvaal Indigency Commission

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Transvaal Government
Coverage	1906-1908
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Education, Bantu Education and skills	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Devereux (2007)	Social Security Commission 1943 (Hofmeyr) and the Transvaal Indigency Commission 1908 (as described)	1908; 1943	Used for the origins of the poor white problem and the 1943 recommendation to extend pensions to Indians and natives.
Lewis (1984b)	Transvaal Indigency Commission report (TG13-1908)	1908	Evidence on black competition for skilled work, poor white unemployment and the case for technical training.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	Transvaal Indigency Commission 1906-8, Industrial Education Committee 1916, Relief and Grants-in-Aid Commission 1917, and National Advisory Board for Technical Education 1913	1906-1917	Show early advocacy of trade training and apprenticeship as the remedy for white indigence.
Wilson (2011)	Transvaal Indigency Commission 1907 (evidence of Hofmeyr)	1907	Cited for Hofmeyr's view that racism's roots lay in slavery.