South African Railways (SAS) files

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	South African Railways
Coverage	1910-1931
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Clark (1987)	SABA, Department of Railways and Harbours (SAS) files, e.g. SAS 1021 P4/14, SAS 1081, SAS 1083	1912-1921	Shows the SAR's rationale for electrification and state control of power because of labour stoppages.
Pirie (1993)	CAD, NTS 8346 (3/353): SAR General Manager to Minister of Railways and Harbours, 7 November 1921 (labour train timetables)	1921-1923	Supports the timetable details showing inconvenient departure and arrival hours of labour trains in 1923.
Pirie (1993)	CAD, SAS 1222 (R4/4/5) and related: SAR memoranda on special native fares, 1911-1931; GNLB 25 (2267/11/20)	1911-1931	Traces the extension of discount through-rates to Rand mines and the 1918-24 tariff restructuring and cost increases.
Pirie (1993)	CAD, SAS 1222: SAR ticketing, revenue-loss and WNLA undercharging files, 1910-1925	1910-1925	Documents ticketing errors, fraud and the 1925 ex gratia settlement of £1,500 with the WNLA.