Interviews with former Native Affairs officials (Carr, Olivier, Bourquin, Rodseth)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	interviews oral history
Producer	Deborah Posel
Coverage	1984-1989
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Posel (1990a)	Interview of 6.11.84 with unnamed ex-Manager of Johannesburg NEAD	1984	Supports the point that illegal work seekers had weak bargaining power and accepted obnoxious employment.
Posel (1990a)	Interview with W J P Carr, Manager of Johannesburg NEAD in the 1950s, 23.11.84	1984	Provides testimony that employer demands for migrant labour usually prevailed over the urban labour preference policy at the labour bureaux.
Posel (1990b)	Interviews with N.J. Olivier (1985), W.J.P. Carr (1984), S.B. Bourquin (1985), Hans Strydom (1989)	1984-1989	Supports claims about SABRA origins of the Tomlinson Commission, Broederbond control of BAD posts, and BAD bureaucrats' autonomy.