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Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Coloured Population (Wilcocks), UG 54/1937

Literature › Primary sources
Kind commission or official report
Producer Wilcocks Commission
Coverage 1937
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 2
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Giliomee (2003) UG 54/1937, Verslag van die Kommissie van Ondersoek insake die Kaapse Kleurling (Wilcocks Commission), incl. Verwoerd testimony 1937 Shows the Afrikaner members' and Verwoerd's testimony outlined emerging apartheid ideology on housing, labour and coloured/African competition.
Goldin (1984) Commission of Inquiry regarding the Coloured Population of the Union, UG 54/1937 1937 Evidence that managerial ideology of Coloured unreliability is long-standing.
Mabin (1990) Report of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Coloured Population (Wilcocks), UG.54-1937; Murray Commission report 1939 1937-1939 Shows divisions over residential segregation of coloureds and over Indian pegging legislation.