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Free State (Bloemfontein) Archives

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Kind state archives
Producer Orange Free State / ORC administration
Coverage 1894-1962
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 3
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Keegan (1979) Colonial Secretary, Orange River Colony files (CS series), Public Record Office / state archive, e.g. CS 1095/03, CS 1019/01, CS 1001/02, CS 1876/03, CS 1763/02, CS 3625/02, CS 981/06, CS 3357/02, CS 4566/02, CS 1894/03, CS 3303/04 1901-1906 District commissioners' reports, land company letters and farmers' correspondence documenting debt, land purchases, labour conditions, grain stocks, transport costs and landlord opposition to anti-squatting enforcement.
Keegan (1985) Bloemfontein Archives, CS and DA files (e.g. CS 4502/07; DA 72 2065/1/10; CS 1325/i/09) 1907-1910 Contemporary reports on tenant trekking and white complaints about black tenants.
Keegan (1985) Bloemfontein Archives, VR 381, 1894 (burgher petitions) 1894 Petitions from white burghers evidence the agitation against black tenant competition behind the 1895 anti-squatting laws.
Keegan (1986) Bloemfontein Archives (BAD): CS 4873/07, NAB 861/07, DA 1915/2/09, DA 1997/1/09 1907-1909 Documents wealthy and corporate-owned farming (Newberrys, Nourse, Bourke) and steam-ploughing costs at Vereeniging Estates.
Kynoch (2000) Free State Archives (Bloemfontein): CO 620 file 2385/1 and PNV 1/2, PNV 1/3 (FS 1302) police files 1910-1962 Shows Basotho faction fights in 1910 and Russian gangs in Free State mining areas from the mid-1950s.