Delimitation Commission maps and boundary descriptions (Surveyors-General / Trigonometrical Survey)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	maps spatial data
Producer	Delimitation Commissions; Surveyors-General; Director of Trigonometrical Survey
Coverage	1912-1980
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	7
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Brink et al. (1953)	Maps and boundary descriptions prepared by the Surveyors-General (Appendices 2 and 3)	1952-53	Record the final boundaries of each constituency by polling district, farm and street, with voter counts.
Cillié et al. (1980)	Maps of provinces, regions and cities with electoral divisions and polling districts, and local authority maps	1980	Basis for locating polling districts, municipal and magisterial boundaries and drawing the new divisions.
Delimitation Commission (1932)	Fiscal division, magisterial district, farm and township survey data and Surveyors-General diagrams; maps prepared under section 42	1932	Used to describe constituency boundaries by farm, township, beacon and survey diagram and to produce illustrative maps.
Laurence et al. (1913)	Surveyor-General technical boundary descriptions and maps (Appendices II and III)	1912-1913	Gives technical boundary descriptions and illustrative maps for the new divisions in the Cape Peninsula, Natal, the Witwatersrand and Pretoria.
Potgieter et al. (1966)	Maps and boundary descriptions prepared by the Surveyors-General (Appendices 2 and 3)	1965-66	Certifies the exact boundary descriptions and maps of every electoral division.