Senate Debates (Hansard), Union/Republic of South Africa

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	parliamentary debates
Producer	Senate, Parliament of South Africa
Coverage	1910-1980
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Best (1971)	Senate Hansard, No. 4, 1964, Column 839	1964	Evidence of the Minister of Labour's statement that no skills ceiling applies to Bantu in border areas.
Parnell and Mabin (1995)	Union Senate Hansard 1912 and Union Gazette Extraordinary notices, Financial Relations Act No. 10/1913, Proclamation 255/1913; LDE 152, 309 'Planning of Towns'	1911-1913	Traces the failed national townships bill and the transfer of township powers to the provinces in 1913.
Posel (1990a)	Senate Debates, 22.5.51 col 4069; 23.5.51 col 4157 (Verwoerd)	1951	Shows Verwoerd's statement that the ULPP overrides employers' rights to specify a preference for migrant labour.
Posel (2011)	Senate Debates, 7 June 1954 (Verwoerd on Bantu education), cited via Pampallis	1954	Verwoerd's rationale for Bantu education and the criticism of mission schooling.
Simons (1956)	Senate statement by Minister of Native Affairs Denys Reitz, March 1942	March 1942	Official admission that pass laws cause irritation and hatred, supporting the claim of long-standing criticism.