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Legislation of other territories (Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Kenya, Swaziland, etc.)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind legislation gazette
Producer Various foreign/colonial governments
Coverage 1880-2007
Works using it 12

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(organiser) et al. (2008) Azerbaijan Law 'Public Debt' (2007) 2007 Cited as the legal framework governing foreign borrowing limits and institutional responsibilities.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Casino Act, Swaziland 1963; Swaziland 1977 anti-soliciting legislation 1963; 1977 Casino Act shows colonial groundwork for casino monopolies; 1977 law shows selective enforcement against prostitution.
Halpern (2004) Journal of the House (Louisiana), 1880 1880 Documents the state's attempt to bar Chinese immigration in 1880.
Kerr (1958) Reception statutes and proclamations (Southern Rhodesia High Court Act Cap. 8; SWA Proc. 21 of 1919; Basutoland 1884; Bechuanaland Proc. 36 of 1909; Swaziland Proc. 4 of 1907) 1884-1919 Texts establishing the dates and terms on which Roman-Dutch law was received from the Cape.
Lemon (1995) 1979 Education Act (Zimbabwe-Rhodesia) and 1981 and 1987 amendments/Education Acts 1979-1987 The class structure of schools under the Acts is compared with South African models A, B and C.
Lichtenstein (2004) US legislation and court decisions: Wagner Act 1935, Taft-Hartley 1947, Title VII 1964, Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944), James v. Marinship Corp. (1944) 1935-1964 Establishes the legal framework that shaped US unionism and black workers' recourse.
Murray (1980) Laws of Lerotholi (Basutoland National Council codification of customary law, 1903) 1903 onward Shows that house-property complex provisions are codified and still applied in the courts.
Pankhurst (1996) Native Land Husbandry Act 1951, Land Apportionment Act 1930 and Tribal Trust Land Act 1967 (Rhodesia) 1930-1969 Legislation is used, via secondary accounts, to describe changes in Rhodesian land tenure and rural policy.
Sanderson (1961) British Central Africa Gazette (various issues, 1894-1903) 1894-1903 Source for early labour movements, tax extension, tax and labour regulations, illicit recruiting cases and Ngoni/Tonga labour movement.
Sanderson (1961) British Central Africa Order/Ordinance no. 5 of 1901 (labour tax) 1901 Establishes the 6s. tax with 3s. remission and the proclaimed district power.
Sapire and Beall (1995) Natives (Urban Areas) Registration and Accommodation Act, 1946 (Southern Rhodesia) 1946 Mentioned as the legislation against which men and women protested, per Barnes and Raftopoulos.
Taylor (1978) Proclamations No. 6 of 1899, No. 7 of 1909 and No. 45 of 1907 (labour agents, Hut Tax) 1899-1909 Show how the legal framework licensed agents, defined recruiters to include traders and runners, and tied Hut Tax to wage migration.
Venter et al. (2000) Botswana Tribal Land Act 58 of 1968 and Scottish crofting legislation (Crofters Acts 1955, 1961; Crofting Reform Act 1976) 1886-1976 Comparative models for decentralised administration of communal land rights.