Deeds Office records¶

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Kind	state archives
Producer	Deeds Offices
Coverage	1850-1951
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	2
Census, race classification and demographic data	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (1994b)	Port Elizabeth municipal records and Deeds Office, Cape Town (title deed covenants)	c.1950	Used to map the extent of racial zoning by title-deed covenant in Port Elizabeth in 1950.
Christopher (2002a)	Deeds Office, Cape Town: Deed of Transfer T8135/1924 (Erf 984 Vrede Hoek), CTT4966/1951 (Erf 468 Carnarvon), T16024/1949 (Erf 3043 Paarl)	1924-1951	Illustrates racial exclusion clauses in property deeds and how popular usage converged on the official classification.
Christopher (2002b)	Deeds Office, Cape Town: deeds of transfer and township title (T8135/1924, CTT4966/1951, T16024/1949)	1924-1951	Illustrates racial exclusion clauses in property deeds and popular terminology versus official classification.
Morrell (1988)	Pretoria Deeds Office (PDO) property transfer files 2031/18, 3637/16, 10599/13, 2849/23, 3475/11	1911-1923	Documents land purchases and farm acquisition by Lazarus and Hudson as progressive farmers.
Morris (1987)	Deed of Transfer No T 10109/1929 (Bloedfontein)	1929	Documents final payment of the purchase price and that title was held in trust for the Bakgatla ba Mocha under Chief Robert Moepi.
Morris (1987)	Deed of Transfer No T 33905/1948 (Geweerfontein)	1948 (purchase 1947)	Documents the size, price and title of Geweerfontein, signed by a Moepi.
Sharp and West (1984)	Title deed of the farm Springbokfontein (quitrent grant to Jacobus 'Bastard' Cloete, 1850)	1850	Illustrates that quitrent titles were initially granted to people later classified as non-white.