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Transvaal colonial and republican archives (SNA, GOV, CS, Volksraad)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind state archives
Producer Transvaal administrations
Coverage 1840-1925
Works using it 6

Debates

Debate Works
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Arndt (1928) Transvaal (SAR) Volksraad Resolutions (V.R.R., E.V.R.R.), Uitvoerende Raad Resolutions, Staats Courant, Gouvernements Kennisgeving, Pretoria Archives S.S. and R. files 1849-1900 Documents Mandaten, Government note issues, bank and mint concession negotiations (Albracht, Lippert, Oyens, Deutsche Bank) and Mint law.
Beinart (1982) Union Archives Pretoria, Secretary of Native Affairs (PTA SA NA) and Transvaal Native Affairs Department (PTA TAB SNA) files 1902-1925 Evidence on WNLA cattle advances, the 1912 famine and Native Affairs policy.
Brookes (1924) Archives of the New Republic (1884-7) and Republic of Lydenburg 1857-1887 Establishes the lack of Native policy and Location/hut-tax measures in these small republics.
Brookes (1924) Archives of the Province of the Transvaal (1877-81) 1877-1881 Shows the Shepstones introducing the Natal system into the Transvaal; includes Native Affairs memoranda and Landdrost questionnaire replies (G 1200/1).
Brookes (1924) Union Archives, Pretoria (Volksraad of Natal resolutions, Vol. A 1/2; Transvaal Volksraad and Staatsprokureur files) 1840-1896 Volksraad resolutions of 1840-43 on squatting limits (five families) and surplus Native removal.
Harries (1987) Transvaal Archives, State Secretary, Foreign Affairs (Ra 4047, Ra 607) 1897 Supports the claim that Witwatersrand pass laws and labour agreements drew on Natal models.
Jeeves (1975a) Secretary of the Transvaal Labour Commission Archive (TAD), vol. II statements 1903 Statements and memoranda supporting the argument on African unwillingness to work on the mines.
Jeeves (1975a) Transvaal Archives Depot, Secretary of Native Affairs (SNA) files, 1901-1907 1901-1907 Correspondence among Lagden, the Chamber, WNLA and the Colonial Office shows the close ties, the compound inspectors' conduct, and the Robinson/TMLC crisis of 1906.
Jeeves (1975a) Transvaal Archives, Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony (GOV) and High Commissioner (HC) archives 1903-1906 Supplies Chief Inspector reports, compound-manager dismissals and Selborne-Elgin correspondence.
Jeeves (1975a) Transvaal Colonial Secretary Archive, CS 1085/3142/1905 'Influx and Exodus of Natives from Mines and Works, July 1904 - June 1905' 1904-1905 Supplies the monthly African employment figures behind the 1905-06 labour supply fluctuation (peak 107,756; low 90,420).
Jeeves (1975b) Governor of the Transvaal and ORC Archive (GOV), High Commissioner Archive (HC), Colonial Secretary Archive (CS), British Agent's Collection, Leyds Argief, Union Native Affairs Dept Archive (TAD) 1893-1907 Confidential despatches, employment statistics, inspector reports and Selborne-Elgin correspondence.
Jeeves (1975b) Transvaal Native Affairs Department correspondence files (SNA), Transvaal Archives Depot 1901-1907 Principal archive for Lagden's relations with the Chamber and WNLA, inspector conduct, strikes, compound reform, and the 1906 Robinson/TMLC crisis.