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Other South African bank archives and reports (Volkskas, Barclays, NBSA, Netherlands Bank, etc.)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind company records or reports
Producer Various banks
Coverage 1836-1970
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 3
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Arndt (1928) Bank deed-of-settlement papers, memoranda and annual reports (Bibliography B) 1836-1925 Source for bank constitutions, note-issue provisions and statements of individual banks.
Ehlers (2007) Boland Bank Archives (BBA), Minute Book African Mutual Trust, 1932-1939 1932-1939 Supports the claim that rural trust companies lobbied parliamentary support through shareholders and local representatives.
Ehlers (2007) FNBA, Minute book of Barclays Bank (DCO), Cape Local Board, 1930-31 1930-1931 Evidence that Barclays opened a separate trust division in Cape Town in August 1931.
Ehlers (2007) First National Bank Archives (FNBA), Minute Book National Bank of South Africa (NBSA), 1913-1917 1913-1917 Shows NBSA's 1915 board decisions to enter trust and estate business without a private bill.
Verhoef (n.d.) Barclays Bank Archives (BBA): Barclays Bank Report – Banks' Clearing House, 1/03/41–31/12/47 1941-1947 Supports the account of imperial banks' stance on Volkskas and the clearing house.
Verhoef (n.d.) Netherlands Bank (NBA) archives: Holsboer letter, Bespreking Algemeen Bestuur, NBSA Board minutes 1963-1970 1963-1970 Evidences NBSA's frustration with ROCO and introduction of negotiable certificates of deposit in 1964.
Verhoef (n.d.) SAB Selected Correspondence GMO – Volkskas 1940-1947; Volkskas Archives, correspondence General Manager with Standard, Barclays and NBvZA 1940-1947 Shows repeated refusal of clearing facilities to Volkskas until admission in 1947.
Verhoef (n.d.) Volkskas Annual Reports, 1934-1950 1934-1950 Used with SARB statistics for Volkskas deposit growth shares.