Business and Chamber of Mines archives

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	Companies / Chamber of Mines
Coverage	1912-1965
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	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

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kerby (2014)	Industrial Development Archive, Sandton, Johannesburg	apartheid era (unspecified)	Cited for the description of decentralisation and deconcentration zones as a compromise between business and government.
Pogue (2006)	Chamber of Mines Archives: Technical Advisory Committee Minute Books 1922-1933; TEBA Archives: Native Recruiting Corporation correspondence 1913-1918	1913-1933	Listed as primary manuscripts in the bibliography; not visibly cited in the argument text.
Verhoef (2009)	Personal papers in Sanlam Archives: M.S. Louw, A.P.J. Burger, A.D. Wassenaar, W.B. Coetzer memoires, H.F. Oppenheimer letter	1946-1965	Shows the motives of Coetzer/Brink and the confidential AAC–FM agreement on diamonds and General Mining control.
Verhoef (2009)	Standard Bank Archives (SBA): General manager's office (GMO), 3/1/116	c.1938-1939	Source for Sanlam's 1938 growth figures, ranking among life assurers and average investment yield, plus its early investment portfolio.