The Friend (Bloemfontein)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	The Friend
Coverage	1892-1979
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	3
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)	The Friend (Bloemfontein) leading article on removals from Thaba'Nchu	c.1979	Cited as an example of uncritical local press portrayal of the removals as a humane success.
Keegan (1979)	The Friend (Bloemfontein newspaper), reports and editorials 1905-1909	1905-1909	Prices of maize, storage, exports, crop prospects, farmer congresses, legislative debates on the 1908 Act.
Keegan (1986)	The Friend (Bloemfontein) newspaper articles and editorials, 1892-1912	1892-1912	Used for examples of wealthy farmers with mills and threshers, steam-plough failures, Seggie's views, and a 1908 editorial on squatting laws.
Murray (1987)	Bloemfontein Friend editorial, 1908	1908	Quoted by Keegan to illustrate the contradiction between farmers' collective demands for enforcement of squatting laws and their individual reliance on squatters.