Department of Justice (JUS) files incl. magistrates' annual reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	Department of Justice
Coverage	1910-1953
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	3
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Dubow (1986)	Pretoria State Archives, JUS series (Justice Department), e.g. JUS 750 1/683/22/1 and JUS 1607 1/53/44	1920s-1931	Evidence of Justice-NAD rivalry, magistrates' resentment at transfers, and a report on the 1925 Transkeian magistrates' conference.
Keegan (1985)	Pretoria Archives JUS 1/401/10 etc., Annual Reports of Magistrates 1910-1913 (Department of Justice)	1910-1918	Magistrates' reports document the financial boom, easy rural credit, land inflation, and tenant resistance and trekking.
Keegan (1985)	Pretoria Archives JUS 5/262/13, Natives Land Act 1913: Opinions re. Position in the Orange Free State	1913-1914	Magistrates' opinions on implementation of the Act, evictions, African petitions and legal interpretation.
Mazower (1990)	Central Archives Depot, Pretoria: JUS 1013 21\280 Weenen Inspection Reports 1944; NTS 1779 Chief Native Commissioners Conference 1943 and 1944; LDB 1758 R2989	1943-1950	Shows prevalence of labour tenancy, Native Affairs Department views on compulsion, and farm vs government wage comparisons.
Morrell (1990)	Department of Justice files (CAD, JUS 328, 548, 553, 566, 638)	1921-1931	Evidences the SAP house-hire complaint, the Boston periodical court petition, the Impendhle border dispute, Vigilance Committees and magistrate overload.
Schirmer (1995)	CAD Department of Justice file JUS 552/29 Vol. 462: inspector and magistrate reports on travel passes issued in Lydenburg, 1927-1953	1927-1953	Supplies counts of travel passes used as an index of migrancy, rising in the 1940s and falling in the early 1950s.