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Lichtenburg Native Commissioner files (KLI)

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Producer Lichtenburg Native Commissioner
Coverage 1941-1953
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Debates

Debate Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Clynick (1990) Annual Reports of the Native Commissioner, Lichtenburg (KLI N1/15/6), 1944 and 1949/50 1944-1950 Evidence of African maize deliveries (70,000 bags in 1944), good farming, and the contrast between Trust farms and Reserves.
Clynick (1990) KLI N2/11/3 Circular CNC (HB Myburgh) to LNC, 'Village Settlements', 12 March 1951; Letter CNC to LNC 6 April 1949; Report LNC to Planning Committee 28 May 1951 1949-1951 Shows shift to settlement policy and the survey of the Trust population (40% on plots over 25 morgen; some 5,400 people).
Clynick (1990) KLI N2/7/2 Administration SANT Land (Main File), including meeting of LNC (W Ross) with the Lichtenburg Distrik Boere Saamwerk Vereeniging, 10 June 1941, and SNA reply of 27 July 1941 1941-1951 Documents white farmers' complaints about labour loss to the Trust, NAD admissions policy and wage conditions.
Clynick (1990) KLI N2/7/3(6) and N2/14/5(23) on Simon Tsatsi (letters 1940-1951, Agricultural Officer report c.1951) 1940-1951 Case study of progressive farmer Simon Tsatsi.
Clynick (1990) KLI N8/5/2 Administrasie Bantoe Landbou Vee Beperkings, incl. minutes of meeting of LNC and Trust residents, 21 April 1953 1952-1953 Evidence on the 1952 culling resistance, LNC statistics on squatter families and stock, and the class basis of protest.
Clynick (1990) LNC (HR van den Bergh) to Lichtenburg Magistrate, 'Natives on Trust farms in the District of Lichtenburg', 14 March 1942 (KLI 2/14/5) 1941-1942 Source of Table One on the origins of the Trust population and of evidence on admissions policy and former farm labourers.