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Annual Report of the Commissioner of the South African Police

Literature › Primary sources
Kind official statistical series
Producer South African Police
Coverage 1916-1982
Works using it 5

Debates

Debate Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 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
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1983) Annual reports of the Commissioner of Police (pass law investigations) 1976-1979 Cited for the numbers of cases investigated under the pass laws, taken via the SAIRR Survey.
Horner and Kooy (1980a) Annual Report of the Commissioner of the South African Police for the year ended June 1974, R.P. 36/1975 year ended June 1974 Cross-checks press casualty figures for 1974 incidents; police figures are preferred or noted where they diverge.
Savage (1984) Annual Reports of the Commissioner of South African Police (pass law, tax and trespass prosecution figures, 1916-1982) 1916-1982 Main series for the annual number of Africans prosecuted under pass laws, tax and trespass laws, used to build Tables 1-3 and Figure 1.
Savage (1986) Annual Report of the Commissioner of South African Police (1917-1920, 1925-33, 1935-39, 1941-79/80) 1916-1980 Main series of pass law arrests/prosecutions 1916-1980, used to build Tables 1-3 and Figure 1 and to periodise enforcement.
Savage (1986) Annual Reports of the Commissioner of South African Police: tax and trespass prosecutions 1920-1979/80 Collated to show African prosecutions under tax and trespass laws (Table 2).
West (1982) Reports of the Commissioner of Police (pass law offences) 1970s Cited as an official source of police figures on pass law offences, noted as unclear in coverage.