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Municipal records (various towns)

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Kind state archives
Producer Municipal councils
Coverage 1900-1999
Works using it 12

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bekker and Coetzee (1980) Peninsula Administration Board information on lodger families (July 1978) July 1978 Gives the share of township houses with a registered lodger family (one in six).
Bond (2004) Minutes of the Southern Metropolitan Local Council Executive Committee, 21 June 1999 1999 (policy set 1995) Shows officials conceded that low service levels in informal settlements were deliberate policy dating from the 1995 Strategic Initiative.
Bonner (1995) Germiston, Benoni and Springs Municipal Archives: Reports of the Managers of Non-European Affairs (1948-1954) 1948-1954 Confirms that the African male urban population elsewhere on the Reef was predominantly of non-Reef origin.
Coupe (1990) Transvaal Intermediate Archive, West Rand Administration Board records, 219/1/3 vol. 1, IANEA Transvaal Divisional Committee Meeting 21/10/58 1958 Source of FCI officer Barclay's statement that industry wanted raw migrant labour and complained of insolent urbanised Africans.
Coupe (1995) Intermediate Archives Depot, Johannesburg, Records of Germiston City Council, 491/45/52, Germiston Industries Association minutes 1964 1964 Evidence of employers' mortgage subsidies to retain artisans.
Mabin (1986b) Kimberley Public Library: Kimberley Borough/City Council dossiers (KBC, KCC) and Council minutes; Sanitary Inspector reports 1900-1924 Evidence on the Council's motives and the sanitary inspector's pressure for removal of Africans to locations and housing.
Minkley (1990) LIE (Labour/Native Labour) file EL 4/8/7/3 – local Native Labour Committee/Board records 1950s Evidence for state regulation of union activity, works committees, and statements that East London was not a city of strikes.
Morrell (1988) Records of Middelburg Town Council (MMG) 1/1/4, 55th Ordinary Meeting, 17 May 1923 1923 Shows the town council asking labour recruiters to route recruits through Middelburg.
Parnell and Mabin (1995) Cape Town Foreshore and District Six planning sources (Cape Archives 3/STB 4/1/70.6.23, Cape Town Foreshore Plan final report 1947, S. S. Morris papers) 1939-1951 Supports the account of modernist reconstruction planning and District Six demolition in Cape Town.
Posel (1990a) Johannesburg Municipal Non-European Affairs Department (NEAD) files and Johannesburg City Council minutes (File A78/5 vol 1; File A78/2/2; Minutes of 832nd Meeting, 30.8.55) 1950s Documents municipal administrators' reports that employers preferred migrants, the Secretary for Native Affairs' circular on foreign Africans, and employer submissions on unregistered workers.
Posel (1990b) Brakpan Municipal Records (BMR) 14/1/92 and 14/1/89, Brakpan City Council minutes and BAD circulars 1960-1968 Source for the text and provisions of the 1960 Bantu in European Areas Bill and BAD circulars on the Physical Planning Act.
Posel (1990b) Killie Campbell Library, Bourquin papers KCM 55218, Durban NEAD notes for meeting with Minister of BAD, 3 August 1959 1959 Establishes the Durban NEAD's declaration of defeat at Cato Manor.
Posel (1990b) West Rand Administration Board Archives (WRAB), Johannesburg Municipal Records (JMR) A14/5, A78/2, A14/2, A78/6/2 1963-1969 Provides BAD officials' addresses (Van Rensburg, Coetzee), IANA minutes and the Secretary for BAD's removals memorandum.
Robinson (1994) Memorandum of ANC Women's League to the Manager of Native Administration, 16 July 1956 (PEIA AB A1(i)) 1956 Illustrates women's demands and the administrators' patient but ineffective listening.
Robinson (1994) Port Elizabeth Intermediate Archives (PEIA) municipal files (A31 Vol 4; 25/100NB No 10; BS1(v); AB F1(ii); AB A1(i); AB A31 Vol 7; C69 Influx Control and Foreign Natives) 1955-1972 Documents correspondence on staff careers, clearing of Korsten, attacks on the Labour Bureau and admin offices, women's memoranda, the Section 29 unit and influx control refusals.