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Botswana National Archives, Secretariat series

Literature › Primary sources
Kind state archives
Producer Bechuanaland Protectorate administration
Coverage 1898-1960
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Jeeves (1987) Botswana National Archive, Secretariat Series (BNAS) 1928-1948 Evidence on WNLA infrastructure, medical surveys of recruits, and Rey-Gemmill correspondence on X-ray screening.
Taylor (1978) Botswana National Archives (BNA) files, Resident Commissioner and Government Secretary correspondence (S.92/10, S.344/3, S.344/5, S.344/7, S.387/5, S.387/7/3, S.117/1/1, S.191/10/1, S.391/7, 5031/7) 1898-1960 Supply the correspondence and official statements on which the narrative of Administration, chiefs and recruiters rests.
Taylor (1978) District Commissioner, Tshabong, letter to Resident Commissioner 1957 (BNA S.387/7/3) 1957 Gives an official's field interviews of Basarwa women on the effects of recruitment of their husbands.
Taylor (1978) Letter from Tati representative on European Advisory Council to High Commissioner, Sept. 1923 (BNA S.92/10); Table 1 of recruits for Consolidated Diamond Mines, SWA 1923-1928 1923-1928 Establishes annual recruitment numbers for South West Africa diamond mines and the labour-supply conflict with Tati farmers.
Taylor (1978) Native Advisory Council session records, 1936 (Kgari Sechele statement; Tshekedi Khama interventions) (BNA S.387/5) 1936-1950s Provide chiefs' testimony on the adverse social and economic effects of recruitment, with quantified Kwena male-absence figures.
Taylor (1978) Theron's Native Labour Organisation letter to Resident Commissioner, June 1937 and Secretary for Native Affairs (Union) letter; report of Assistant Resident Commissioner on Cape mines visit, Nov. 1937 (BNA S.191/10/1) 1937-1939 Show competing recruiters' demands, Union government support, and conditions at Cape mines.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) Botswana National Archives, Secretariat series S344 (WNLA northern Bechuanaland organisation; medical commission 1947; Baring letter) 1936-1947 Documents WNLA's road, depot, airstrip and medical infrastructure building in Bechuanaland.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) Botswana National Archives, Secretariat series S344 (Bechuanaland Protectorate) 1936-1947 Used for WNLA road, depot, airstrip and medical infrastructure in northern Bechuanaland.