Cape Blue Books on Native Affairs

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Cape and Union Native Affairs Departments
Coverage	1874-1913
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Beinart (1982)	Cape Blue Books on Native Affairs (BBNA) 1874-1909, and Union Blue Books and Native Affairs Department reports	1874-1913	Source for magistrates' reports, labour passes by district, shipping and trade figures, and crop information.