Other population census (one-off)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	population census
Producer	Various
Coverage	various
Works using it	7

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	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
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Census, race classification and demographic data	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (2002b)	Malaya 1932, A report on the 1931 census	1931	Comparative illustration of colonial census difficulty defining race.
Giliomee (1995)	Demographic data on white share of population (1910-1985, projected to 2010)	1910-2010	Shows white share fell from 20% to 15% and is projected to fall to 11%, underlying the 'weakening demographic base' argument.
Johnston (1899)	Census at the Cape after thirty years of settlement	c.1682	Gives the early Dutch settler population count.
Lewis (1984a)	1848 Census of the Xhosa (British Kaffraria), complete census roll, C.O. 6155, Cape Archives	1848	Quantifies polarisation of Xhosa homesteads and households by size, polygamy and cattle holdings to show pre-colonial stratification.
Lewis (1984a)	Census of Fingoe districts, N.A. 152, Blyth to Southey, 2nd May 1874	1874	Source for the nearly 44 000 Mfengu in Fingoland after the 1865 migration from the Ciskei.
Lewis (1984a)	Healdtown Mfengu census, C.O. 3163, Verity to Colonial Secretary, 16th February 1869	1869	Source for the cattle and sheep distribution (Table 2), plough ownership and polygamy among 513 households.
Lewis (1984a)	Shepstone's census of Ox-kraal and Kamastone Fingo locations, C.O. 3026, 9th April 1861	1861	Source for the distribution of cultivated acres, ploughs, sheep, cattle, wives and children across 512 households (Table 1) and the polygamy-cultivation correlation.
Mabin (1986b)	1881 census of buildings and population in the Kimberley locations	1881	Documents 777 huts and 2380 people in the locations.
Pogue (2006)	Johannesburg Sanitary Board census of Johannesburg, July 1896	1896	Gives sex and racial composition of Johannesburg's population in the 1890s.
Theal (1905)	Census of the Cape Colony (1805, 1819, 1890 Orange Free State), as cited for population	1806; 1805; 1819; 1890	Supplies population totals (European, slave, free coloured) used to describe colonial demography and the Dutch-speaking population.