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Natal Native Commissioners/magistrates files

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Kind state archives
Producer Natal Native Commissioners
Coverage 1940-1950
Works using it 1

Debates

Debate Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Mazower (1990) Natal Archive Depot (Pietermaritzburg) magistrates' and Native Commissioners' files, e.g. 1\EST 3\1\2\6, 1\NHR 3\2\2\7, 1\HWK 3\2\2\1, 1\RMD 3\3\1\8, 1\WEN 3\3\2\1 1940-1950 Main evidence for district-level labour shortages, tenant complaints, eviction cases, advisory board functioning and magistrates' local policy.
Mazower (1990) Pietermaritzburg Commissioner for Cooperation and Development (PCCD) Correspondence, Boxes 3, 4, 6 (N2\10\3 etc.) 1942-1946 Letters from Africans and lawyers seeking land and the Local Health Commission survey of blackspots.