Reports of the Native Affairs Department¶


Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Native Affairs
Coverage	1904-1953
Works using it	8

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bradford (1990)	Report of the Native Affairs Department for the Years 1949-50, UG 61/51	1949-1950	Cited for agriculture becoming more dependent on foreign labour.
Davenport (1969)	Reports of the Department of Native Affairs, UG 14-1927 and UG 41-1937	1927, 1937	Source for counts of locations registered under the Act (64 in 1927, 234 in 1937), housing loans and uptake by municipalities.
Greenberg (1987)	Report of the Department of Native Affairs 1952-53	1952-53	Quoted for the government's own image of a smoothly working labour bureau network.
Jeeves (1975a)	Transvaal Native Affairs Department, Annual Reports for years ending 30 June 1904 and 1905	1904-1905	Shows mortality statistics, compound improvements and the subsequent fall in death rates.
Jeeves (1975b)	Native Affairs Department mortality and inspector statistics, incl. TLC 'Report on the Mortality of Natives'	1902-1905	Shows high compound mortality and inspector case counts (13 assaults, 28 wage complaints, 3000+ disciplined).
Keegan (1985)	U.G. 17-1911, Blue Book on Native Affairs, 1910	1910	Cited for burgeoning stockholdings of black tenants.
Mazower (1990)	Report of the Native Affairs Department for the Years 1944-45	1944-45	Shows the department's admission that the advisory boards achieved little.
Milburn and Cole (1957)	Department of Native Affairs, Reports, and the monthly Bantu (Information Service)	1950s	Identified as the regular government publications on native affairs.