Cape Parliament debates, Votes and Proceedings and select committees

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	parliamentary debates
Producer	Cape Colony legislature
Coverage	1854-1910
Works using it	8

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	6
Census, race classification and demographic data	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Arndt (1928)	Cape Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Council minutes and Government Gazette (1854-1870)	1854-1870	Source for debates on small notes, bank statements, note duty and State Bank/Government note proposals.
Bozzoli (1975)	Report of the Select Committee on Colonial Agriculture and Industries, 1883 (Cape), via Knowles	1883	Evidence of early Cape protection pressure from infant industries after a slump.
Houghton and Dagut (1972)	Cape of Good Hope House of Assembly Votes and Proceedings Annexures 1861-1870 (petitions, governors' speeches, select committee reports, revenue estimates)	1861-1870	Documents contemporary debate and petitions on railways, wine duties, usury, taxation, income tax and Free State customs claims.
Mabin (1984)	Cape Parliament debates (Hansard, House of Assembly; Legislative Council Debates)	1854, 1867-1899	Used to reconstruct railway politics, protection motions, labour/diamond legislation and Rhodes-Bond alliance.
Mabin (1986a)	Cape Parliament House of Assembly divisions and Hansard (1880, 1887, 1894)	1880-1894	Shows voting on railway proposals in 1880 and political obstacles to routes and harbour rhetoric.
Mabin (1986b)	Cape Hansard 20.5.1884	1884	Source for Rhodes's remark on white men supported by natives in struggle against whites.
Mabin (1986b)	Select Committee on Illicit Diamond Buying (Cape V&P, Ann. A.9-'82), evidence	1882	Evidence on the search system and mine labour conditions.
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989)	Cape of Good Hope House of Assembly Debates 1894	1894	Illustrates legislators' indifference to the Births and Deaths Registration Bill.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912)	Cape House of Assembly debate, 23 July 1907 (Malan motion on union)	1907	Shows non-party consensus at the Cape for exploring union.