Interviews on SOFSAB and Thaba'Nchu violence

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	interviews oral history
Producer	The authors
Coverage	1986-1987
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Cobbett and Nakedi (1987)	Interview with Mr M.P.D. Spies, former director of SOFSAB, Bloemfontein, 23 July 1986	23 July 1986	Provides the official/administration board account of the rationale for Botshabelo as a dumping ground and commuter labour pool, and of the Thaba'Nchu violence.
Cobbett and Nakedi (1987)	Resident testimonies on Thaba'Nchu/Kromdraai violence	c.1986-87	Evidence of police and army violence against non-Tswana squatters, countering the official ethnic-conflict account.