| Arndt (1928) |
Cape Town (Government) Archives: Original Placaat Books 1652-1786; Commissioners-General Publicatie vols., Kaapse Argiewe Inv. Nos. 74, 696; Resolutions Part 5, 1793 |
1652-1795 |
Establishes early coin tariffs, the first 1782 note issue, and the founding and rules of the Lombard Bank. |
| Beinart (1982) |
Cape Archives, Chief Magistrate of the Transkeian Territories (CA CMT) papers, series 3 (vols 3/47-52, 3/55, 3/592-3/959) |
1891-1930 |
Main source for the administration, dipping crisis, chiefs, headmen, land disputes, advances, cotton, tobacco and agricultural schemes. |
| Beinart (1982) |
Cape Archives, Native Affairs Department papers (CA NA), vols 505-760 |
1896-1912 |
Evidence on labour advances, recruiting regulation, annexation and early colonial administration of Pondoland. |
| Beinart (1982) |
Cape Archives, Prime Minister's Office (CA PMO) files incl. Rinderpest in the Transkeian Territories |
1895-1898 |
Evidence on rinderpest measures, cattle losses and early administration. |
| Beinart (1982) |
Cape Archives, Resident Magistrate papers (CA I/LSK Lusikisiki, I/LBE Libode, I/QBU Qumbu) |
c.1900-1930s |
Local evidence on cattle permits, civil and criminal cases, annual reports, bridewealth, migrancy and chiefly disputes. |
| De Zwart (2012) |
Report of the Council of Policy 1717 (WCA C 2749) and VOC cashbooks 1754 and 1786 (WCA C2734) |
1717-1786 |
Documents additional emoluments (board, wheat) added to VOC monthly wages. |
| De Zwart (2012) |
TEPC Transcription Project, Inventories of the Orphan Chamber (auction lists) |
eighteenth century |
Auction prices for goods from estates, used to supplement price series. |
| De Zwart (2012) |
Western Cape Archives financial documents (Burgher Council, Burgher Senate, Civil Engineer, Colonial Office, First British Occupation, Master of the Supreme Court) |
1795-1835 |
Source of wage observations (and prices) for 1795-1835, averaged within years. |
| Hallett (1984) |
Jan van Riebeeck's journal, 10 February 1655 (quoted in SPP Vol 3, p. 74) |
1655 |
Illustrates the antiquity of conflict over who lives where. |
| Houghton and Dagut (1973) |
Native Affairs Blue Book 1875 and Victoria East Civil Commissioner's returns 1925 |
1875 and 1925 |
Compares African sales of produce and purchases in 1875 and 1925 to show declining rural prosperity. |
| Iliffe (1999) |
Cape cadastral calendar (deeds' book), 1677-1731 |
1677-1731 |
Listing of real property transfers, cited as a recent publication of Cape records that supports the picture of early Cape agriculture. |
| Iliffe (1999) |
Records at Cape Town and The Hague (VOC-era archives) |
1652-1795 |
Underlies the claim that wheat, wine and pastoral production trends are evident under Dutch rule. |
| Iliffe (1999) |
Slave petitions of the amelioration period, 1823-1838, and criminal records |
1823-1838 |
Used by recent research to recover slave voices, moral economy and family claims. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Brownlee and Maclean correspondence (G.H. 8/27, B.K. 90) on grain prices, ploughs and mission stations |
1854-1855 |
Gives the 6 shillings per muid ration price and Brownlee's observations that ploughs and wagons were bought mainly on mission stations. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Brownlee to Secretary to Lt. Governor, 17th May 1865 (B.K. 73) |
1865 |
Contemporary testimony that stock was unequally distributed and most people had only grain to pay taxes. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Calderwood's census: Statistical Returns of Fingoe Locations in Victoria, Fort Beaufort and Queenstown, July 1855 (G.H. 8/27) |
1855 |
Supplies household, plough, wagon and sheep counts and 2.5 acres per household used to estimate Mfengu grain marketed per household and per acre. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Census of Fingoes Residing in the District of Peddie, 31st July 1854 (G.H. 8/24) |
1854 |
Shows that few Peddie Mfengu households owned ploughs, wagons or sheep before the cattle-killing. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Cumming and Verity correspondence, C.O. 3140 and C.O. 3163, 1868-69 |
1868-1869 |
Supports the claim that established, more prosperous households migrated to the Transkei and leased out their lots to younger households. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Magistrates' and missionaries' correspondence in B.K. series (Tainton, Campbell, Lucas, Chalmers to Maclean), 1856-58 |
1856-1858 |
Anecdotal evidence that Mfengu sold grain they needed and became destitute, and of grain sold up the Kei. |
| Lewis (1984a) |
Weekly market returns by Verity, Line Drift, Ebb and Flow Drift and Fort Montgomery Williams markets, C.O. 2948/49/50 and C.O. 2951 |
July 1857-March 1858 |
Daily grain sales, prices and wagon use are used to estimate volume and value of Mfengu grain sales during the cattle-killing and per-household marketing. |
| Mabin (1986b) |
Cape Archives (CA): NA, GLW, AG, LND, PAS series correspondence of Resident Magistrates and Civil Commissioners, Kimberley |
1875-1913 |
Evidence on locations, location populations, pass laws and removal of Africans to locations. |
| Pirie (1993) |
Cape Archives Depot, CGR 2/1/156 (A37/25486): CGR Chief Traffic Manager's Notices, 1898 |
1898 |
Evidence for minimum gang sizes for discounted migrant fares on the CGR. |