South African Police reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	South African Police
Coverage	1910-1972
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Duncan (1989)	Police spy and detective reports on TAMWU meetings (e.g. Det/Bgnt Boy report 29/7/44)	1944	Shows that the police were the best-informed branch of the State in the early stages, from union meeting surveillance.
Kynoch (2000)	Central Archives Depot (Pretoria) files: NTS, SAP, KKD, JUS, BAO, WRAD series on Russian gangs, faction fights, arrests and unrest, 1910s-1972	1913-1972	Documents Russian gang activity, arrests, occupations and police observations on the Rand, and later mine-area faction fights.
Moodie (1986)	Police summary and Native Affairs Department figures on the 1946 strike (numbers of strikers, man-days, mines affected, arrests, injuries)	August 1946	Provides strike size estimates, which the author treats as unreliable.
Simkins (1984b)	South African Police evidence to the Commission on African numbers on unoccupied farms, 1954	1954	Gives a (disputed) estimate of Africans on unoccupied farms, halved by the author to show it still exceeds 500 000.