Governor-General files (GG)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	Governor-General's Office
Coverage	1912-1915
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987)	Central Archives Depot (CAD), Governor-General file GG 1411 44/25 (Pilgrim's Rest Vigilance Association correspondence)	1915	Source for residents' complaints about company autocracy and the government's non-response.
Feinberg (1993)	Central Archives Depot, Pretoria: Governor-General files (GG 333, GG 334, GG 1101, GG 1541)	1912-1913	Gladstone's confidential correspondence to London on the Cabinet crisis and Free State pressure; Justice Department opinion on the Cape franchise clause.