| Crush (1992) |
Central Archives Depot (Pretoria), K 358, Native Grievances Enquiry, Vol. 1, File 68, Evidence of James Sholto Gordon Douglas, 6 March 1914 |
1914 |
Evidence that panoptical compound design appeared early, at City Deep mine. |
| Delius and Schirmer (2000) |
Native Economic Commission Evidence (Wits Historical Papers AD1438) |
1930-1932 |
Cited for the testimony behind the Commission's erosion claims, including the Ciskei accounts. |
| Duncan (1990a) |
Cooke's evidence to the Mills Commission (1925) and the Holloway/Native Economic Commission (1931), Wits AD1438 and A1882 |
1925, 1931 |
Shows the DNL's rosy portrayal of Native Labour services and his defence of migrant labour, compounds and pass laws. |
| Duncan (1990a) |
Evidence of GME Kotze to the Economic and Wage Commission (2/9/25) and Unemployment Commission (1930); Wits Archives A1882, A1280 |
1925, 1930 |
Documents Kotze's position on accident rates, inspector numbers and African capacities. |
| Duncan (1990a) |
Lucas Papers, Wits Archives AD1769: Summary of Pirow's evidence to Low Grade Ore Commission, 22/9/30 |
1930 |
Documents Pirow's proposals to remove whites from underground to cut costs and phthisis. |
| Duncan (1990a) |
Van Eck Commission Papers, Union Archives K302, Box 10 |
WWII |
Shows lenient wartime exemptions policy under the 1918 Act. |
| Duncan (1990b) |
Cooke's evidence to the Mills Commission (1925, Wits A1882) and the Native Economic (Holloway) Commission (4/5/31, Wits AD1438) |
1925, 1931 |
Shows the DNL's rosy picture of NAD services, support for migrancy and compounds, and the 'four points of view'. |
| Duncan (1990b) |
Evidence of Kotze to the Economic and Wage Commission (2/9/25) and the Unemployment Commission (1930), Wits Archives A1882, A1280 |
1925-1930 |
Documents Kotze's admissions on supervision and accidents, and his racial stereotypes about African ability. |
| Duncan (1990b) |
Evidence of the Director of the Industries Division to the Mills Commission, 24/8/25, Wits A1882 |
1925 |
Epigraph used in the conclusion for lack of inter-departmental coordination. |
| Duncan (1990b) |
Lucas Papers: Summary of Pirow's Evidence to Low Grade Ore Commission, Wits AD1769 |
1930 |
Shows GME Pirow proposing removal of whites from underground to make low-grade ore payable. |
| Duncan (1990b) |
Van Eck Commission Papers, Union Archives K302, Box 10 |
WWII |
Supports the wartime lenient exemptions policy under the 1918 act. |
| Parnell and Mabin (1995) |
Evidence to the Eiselen Commission 1949 (A. H. Murray papers, UCT BC 282) |
1949 |
Illustrates modernist 'control, efficiency, coordination' thinking beyond physical planning. |
| Posel (1987) |
Fagan Commission (Native Laws Commission) unsorted evidence, SAIRR collection, Wits: Thom, Van Eeden et al., 'Naturelle in Stedelike Gebiede' (1946) |
1946 |
Documents SABRA-linked academics' claims that African labour is of low productivity and costly, and that Reserves must be developed. |
| Posel (1987) |
Fagan Commission Evidence, Malherbe, Van Eeden et al., 'Reply To Mr Justice Fagan's Defence' |
c.1946-48 |
Source for the proposal to substitute efficient European and mechanised labour for African labour. |
| Posel (1987) |
Instituut vir Volkswelstand memorandum to the Fagan Commission, 'Naturelle in Stedelike Gebiede: Getuienis Voorgele aan die Kommissie van Ondersoek Insake Wette op Naturelle in Stedelike Gebiede' |
1946 (undated) |
Main evidence for a detailed 'total segregation' blueprint (labour districts, quotas, white immigration, subsidies) within the FAK. |
| Posel (1987) |
Pretoria City Council evidence to the Fagan Commission, 'Getuienis Voorgele aan die Kommissie van Ondersoek Insake Wette op Naturelle in Stedelike Gebiede' |
c.1946 |
Near-verbatim copy of the Instituut's evidence, offered as an index of the Instituut's political influence. |
| Posel (1987) |
SAIRR evidence to the Tomlinson Commission on foreign African labour on the Witwatersrand |
1952 |
Supplies the figure that 58 per cent of the Witwatersrand's African workforce was foreign. |
| Posel (1987) |
Tomlinson Commission Record of Evidence (UNISA archive), various volumes (Vols 1, 2, 4, 10, 87), 1952-53 |
1952-1953 |
Oral evidence from SABRA, the AHI, the SAAU and the SAIRR used to reconstruct organisational positions on urbanisation, migrant labour and Reserves. |
| Schirmer (1999) |
CAD K14: evidence to the Commission of Enquiry into European Occupation of Rural Areas (district evidence and submissions, 1957-1958) |
1957-1958 |
Provides the district-level evidence that small farmers avoided risk, abandoned farming or survived on migrant labour. |