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Durban Town Clerk and Native Administration files

Literature › Primary sources

Kind state archives
Producer Durban municipality
Coverage 1916-1950
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 2
Historiographical approaches 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Maylam (1990) Durban Native Administration Committee (DNAC) Agenda Books, 1931-1937, and Minutes of DNAC 1945 1931-1945 Documents police and ratepayer segregation pressure (Whitsitt, ratepayers' associations) and the vote of no confidence in Layman.
Maylam (1990) Durban Town Clerk's Files (DTCF), various files incl. 4/1/2/1173-1177, 4/1/3/1618-1624, 4/1/2/75, Native Locations file 10, subject no. 290 P 1916-1947 Documents municipal by-laws, registration and pass administration, Layman's and Chester's statements and council deliberations on influx control and segregation.
Maylam (1990) Native Beer / Kaffir Beer memorandum by P. Gray, 27 June 1950, and DNA housing memoranda (1940, 1944, 1948) 1940-1950 Supports claims on central-state concern about unemployed Africans and cost-cutting in African housing.
Parnell and Mabin (1995) Natal Archives Depot, Durban Town Clerk series (3/DBN) including 4/1/3/243 and 1/2/7/1/1, and Minutes of the City Council of Durban 1943 1943-1948 Shows wartime halt to planning and Durban's post-war racial zoning proposals and use of the Umlazi reserve.