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Phillip Bonner oral history interviews, Rand

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Kind interviews oral history
Producer Phillip Bonner
Coverage 1984-1994
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bonner (1995) Author's oral history interviews, Daveyton and Rand (Kolobe, Sefako, Zwane, Kgopo, Komane, Mthembu, Mbulane, Mqiba, Khoesnoe, Mrs K, Nkadimeng, Sisulu etc., 1984-1994) 1984-1994 (recalling 1930s-1960s) Life histories supply the journeys, motives, wage-timing, squatter experience, associations and politicisation central to the argument.
Sapire and Beall (1995) Oral testimonies and life histories of urban dwellers collected by Phillip Bonner (Witwatersrand) 1930s-1950s Described as the evidence with which Bonner traces migrants' routes to permanent urban residence, which conventional documentary sources do not reveal.