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Prime Minister's Office files (PM)

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Kind state archives
Producer Prime Minister's Office
Coverage 1912-1926
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Dubow (1986) Pretoria State Archives, PM series (Prime Minister's Office), e.g. PM 1/2/61 18/1 and PM 1/2/32 7/15 1922-1926 Barrett's letters, Welsh's memorandum, protest telegrams and press cuttings on the 1923 NAD reorganisation; Agriculture Department and NAD correspondence on farm labour.
Feinberg (1993) Central Archives Depot: Prime Minister's and Botha-related files (PM 1/1, MEM 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/19, 1/20) and Smuts Collection 1912-1913 Letters and resolutions to Botha (Boeren Bond, Preller, Beaumont, SAP Vigilance Committee) documenting Free State pressure and political anxieties.
Morrell (1988) CAD Secretary to the Prime Minister (PM) 43/2a, Heard to Prime Minister, 18 January 1924 1924 Quotes TCL lands manager on farmer disillusionment with SAP.