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Department of Development Aid files, Natal Archives (Weenen)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind state archives
Producer Bantu Affairs / Development Aid
Coverage 1964-1983
Works using it 1

Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Sato (2012) Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Weenen to Chief BAC, 21 October 1964, N2/11/3/1, Vol. 766, DDA file, NAB 1964-1965 Provides a 1964 official estimate of about 25,000 Africans, used to show census undercount in Weenen.
Sato (2012) DDA files, NAB: BAD memos and CBAC notes on Tugela Estates purchase, 1965 (N2/11/3/1, Vol.766); BAC Weenen to CBAC 28 July 1977 (N1/15/4 Vol.771) 1965-1977 Establishes plans for resettlement land and the 1977 estimate of about 3,000 remaining tenant families.
Sato (2012) DDA files, NAB: Quarterly meetings minutes (Kwartaallikse vergaderings) N1/15/4, Vols 770-772, 1972-1983 1972-1983 Documents African tenants' grievances, requests to stay in Weenen, farmer-tenant violence, and the 1981 Sosibo letter on '24 farms'.
Sato (2012) DDA files, NAB: correspondence on border conflicts and stock theft (N2/10/2 Vol.770; N2/1/2 Vol.771), 1971-1978 1971-1978 Shows border farmers' complaints, chief's policing and farmers shooting African livestock.