| Brookes (1924) |
Legislation and proclamations (Natal Laws 11/1864, 28/1865, 26/1875, 19/1891; Transvaal Law 4 of 1885; Glen Grey Act 25/1894; Natives' Land Act 27/1913; Native Affairs Act 23/1920; Native Disputes Bill 1912) |
1849-1920 |
Analysed to describe tenure, exemption, franchise, land segregation, and Native Law recognition. |
| Budeli et al. (2008) |
Industrial Disputes Prevention Act 20 of 1909 and Railway Regulations Act 13 of 1908 |
1908-1909 |
Used to show the first strike ban and the first general labour-relations statute, with its notice, conciliation and moratorium provisions. |
| Harries (1986) |
Transvaal pass laws of 1895 and 1896 |
1895-1896 |
The reviewer treats them as measures drawn up by the magnates to depress black wages, in opposition to Jeeves's reading of them as influx control. |
| Harries (1987) |
Natal legislation: Ordinances 2 and 4 of 1855, Laws 13 of 1859, 15 of 1871, 41 and 48 of 1884, 52 of 1886, Immigration Notice no. 1 of 1876, NGG notices |
1855-1886 |
Establishes the legal framework of labour importation and the successive pass laws. |
| Houghton and Dagut (1972) |
Natal Ordinances, Laws and Proclamations vol. I 1843-1870 (Cadiz and Lyon, 1879) |
1858-1862 |
Texts of laws on building societies, free trade in money, the Commercial and Agricultural Bank and friendly societies. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Gold Law of the South African Republic, Law No. 8 of 1885 as amended 1886 |
1885-1886 |
Reproduces the clauses on state ownership of minerals, licences and the colour bar. |
| Indicus (1909) |
Natal immigration and pass regulations / Transvaal permit system (Supervisor of Asiatics) |
1897-1903 |
Described from the author's own experience of permits and cited as discriminatory immigration restrictions on Indians. |
| Jeeves (1975a) |
Transvaal Volksraad laws and resolutions (Law 23 of 1895; resolution of 1896) in Barber translation, and Report of the Superintendent of Natives, ZAR 1897 |
1895-1899 |
Documents the 1895 labour-district pass law and the 1896 chiefs' bounty for labourers. |
| Jeeves (1975b) |
Laws, Volksraad Resolutions, Proclamations and Government Notices Relating to Natives and Coolies in the Transvaal (Barber et al., transl.); Law 23 of 1895; Proclamation 38 of 1901; Coloured Labourers' Health Ordinance 1905; Report of the Superintendent of Natives of the ZAR 1897 |
1895-1905 |
Establishes the pass laws, labour agent regulations, chiefs' bounties and compound health legislation enacted at the mines' behest. |
| Keegan (1979) |
Act 42, 1908, Rights of Coloured Persons in Respect of Fixed Property (ORC) |
1908 |
Shown as forerunner of 1913 Natives Land Act anti-squatting clauses. |
| Keegan (1979) |
Law No. 4 of 1895 (Orange Free State anti-squatting law) and 1880s anti-squatting legislation |
1880s-1895 |
Shows the settler attempts to limit squatter families and the 1904 non-enforcement. |
| Kerr (1958) |
Cape Act No. 24 of 1886 (Criminal Code for the Transkeian Territories) |
1886 |
Example of a successfully enacted criminal code for African territories. |
| Mabin (1984) |
Cape Colony Statutes |
1856-1892 |
Masters and Servants Acts, labour legislation and Act 22 of 1867 used for labour control. |
| Mabin (1986b) |
Statute Law of Griqualand West (government notices, proclamations, ordinances) |
1878-1882 |
Shows Cape location law proclaimed in Griqualand West after the 1878 rebellion. |
| Maylam (1995) |
Mid-nineteenth-century municipal and government regulations (Port Elizabeth 1855; East London 1849, 1857) |
1849-1857 |
Cited via Christopher, Baines and Nel as early local segregationist measures. |
| Morrell (1990) |
Colonial legislation: Ordinance 3 of 1849, Law 22 of 1883, Act 47 of 1903, Master and Servants Act, Natives Taxation and Development Act 1925 |
1849-1925 |
Establishes the legal powers of magistrates, the grants to agricultural organisations and eviction mechanisms. |
| Murray (1987) |
Plakkerswetten (squatter laws) of the Boer republics |
before 1900 |
Evidence that settler agitation produced squatter legislation that was largely ineffective until later state intervention. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Statute Law of the Orange River Colony (OFS 1894 'recognition of townships' law) |
1894 (published 1907) |
Shows the OFS created the first apparatus in southern Africa to control urban form through a townships board. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Transvaal Ordinance Establishing Municipalities, No. 58 of 1903 |
1903 |
Documents municipal powers over unfit buildings and township layout plans that proved hard to enforce. |
| Sharp and West (1984) |
Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act, 1909 |
1909 |
Formalised the exclusion of mission reserves from mineral rights, transferred control to the state and imposed a tax on adult males in reserves. |
| Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) |
Births and Deaths Registration Act No. 7 of 1894; Public Health Act 1897; Immigration Restriction Act 1902; urban locations act 1902 |
1894-1902 |
Establishes the administrative and legal framework for data collection, public health, and segregation. |
| Simons (1956) |
Proclamation 14 of 1872 (Griqualand West diamond pass system) |
1872 |
Shows the pass system in the diamond fields was intended to check diamond theft. |
| Simons (1956) |
Proclamation of 1797; Caledon proclamation of 1809; Ordinance No. 50 of 1828 (Cape pass and vagrancy legislation) |
1797-1828 |
Traces the origin of the pass system in security and labour needs. |
| Simons (1956) |
Transvaal Republic pass and labour-district laws, 1885-89 |
1885-1889 |
Shows the Republican Government enacting pass laws in response to mine managements' demands. |
| Simons (1956) |
Voortrekker, Natal (1840) and Transvaal Republic (1849) instructions and laws on African residence and passes |
1840-1880s |
Shows that quotas on African residence on farms and pass controls date from early settler states. |
| Turrell (1986) |
Kimberley blasting rules and regulations of 1885 |
1885 |
Cited by the reviewer as the origin of the statutory colour bar, earlier than the 1890s Kruger measures. |
| Van Schoor (1986) |
Eybers, Select Documents (South African constitutional documents) |
1865-1881 |
Quoted for Basutoland annexation terms, Shepstone's native policy, and the 1865 Natal franchise decision. |