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Native Affairs Commission Enquiry into the Token System, Dundee

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Kind interviews oral history
Producer Native Affairs Commission
Coverage 1938
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Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1

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Work As cited Period How used
Edgecombe (1987) Evidence of Government Officials taken in camera, N.A.C., 27 January 1938 (D.H. Bowden, P.L. Hatting, B. Gildenhuys) 1938 Assistant inspector of mines and labour officials testify on compound manager kickbacks, coercion into token use and enforcement.
Edgecombe (1987) Verbatim notes of Enquiry into the Token System, Dundee, 27-28 January 1938 (NTS 2120, file 227/280) January 1938 Supplies testimony from black colliers, indunas, chiefs and government officials on debt, beer halls and compulsion.