Land Tenure Advisory Board series (ARG)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	Land Tenure Advisory Board
Coverage	1938-1955
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Mabin (1990)	State Archives Pretoria, Land Tenure Advisory Board series (ARG), incl. ARG 10, ARG 12 (typescript Joint Committee Report), ARG 144, ARG 16, ARG 228	1938-1955	Establishes Van der Merwe's role, the Joint Committees' evidence-gathering from municipalities, and the origins of retroactive group-areas segregation.
Mabin (1992)	Draft Joint Committee report, 28 February 1950 (author's photocopy of original formerly in SA, BEP 60)	1950	Establishes that Van der Merwe drafted the joint report and its unpublished chapters, a central piece of the Group Areas origins argument.
Mabin (1992)	Land Tenure Advisory Board representations series (ARG 10, Act 1/1/2/3/9, /14, /16), incl. Germiston, Ventersdorp and Johannesburg Council correspondence	1938-1949	Shows municipal appeals and assurances that Van der Merwe marshalled as evidence for racial zoning and retroactive segregation.
Mabin (1992)	Land Tenure Advisory Board series (ARG 12, Act 1/1/2/7), typescript Joint Report of the Asiatic Land Tenure Laws Amendments Committee and the Land Tenure Act Amendments Committee	1949-1950	Shows the committees' evidence, the history of segregation measures and the proposals for retroactive, comprehensive segregation that fed the Group Areas Bill.
Mabin (1992)	Other LTAB files: ARG 144 (Cape land tenure enquiry, January 1949), ARG 1 A1, ARG 228 (Benoni native location)	1949-1951	Shows the Board's tour of the Cape and its administrative expansion.