Government Gazette No. 6038, 28 March 1958 (containing Notice No. 464: Report of the Eleventh Delimitation Commission, amendment of electoral division descriptions)¶
Union of South Africa, Government Printer (1958). Government Gazette No. 6038, 28 March 1958 (containing Notice No. 464: Report of the Eleventh Delimitation Commission, amendment of electoral division descriptions). Staatskoerant / Government Gazette (Union of South Africa), Vol. CXCI. Government Printer, Pretoria (reproduced by Sabinet Online).
| Type | primary source |
| Scope | Wider apartheid literature |
| Method | primary document |
| Period studied | 1957–1958 |
| Regions | Union of South Africa, Cape Province, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal, Transkei, Caprivi Zipfel |
| Themes | politics ideology elections, bantustans removals influx, macro fiscal finance debt, agriculture land, labour markets wages, methods data sources |
| Citation key | unionofsouthafrica1958 |
Argument¶
The remainder is miscellaneous: Proclamations imposing special rates on tribes and administering Bantu Authorities, Treasury revenue returns, bank statements, a motor industry census regulation, company registrations, estate and insolvency notices. For the book it is a source on the apparatus of administrative control, apartheid-era state finance and electoral machinery in 1958, not an analytical argument.
Evidence and method¶
Primary gazette text: Proclamations 73-77 of 1958, Government Notices (Justice, Finance, Native Affairs, Labour, Interior, Statistics), Treasury revenue statements to 28 Feb 1958, quarterly commercial bank balance sheets to 31 Dec 1957, South African Reserve Bank statement of 14 March 1958, Land Bank statement, trade statistics for Jan-Feb 1958, and legal/estate notices. The Delimitation Commission content is limited to boundary-description amendments.
Place in the debates¶
- Liberal vs revisionist on apartheid and growth (see White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems). Takes no position; it supplies raw administrative and fiscal data (revenue, bank balance sheets, trade figures) only.
Findings¶
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Gold mining lease revenue was a substantial item of state revenue in 1957-58. (p. 6)
Gold Mining Teases
Evidence ledger¶
Sources used¶
| Source | Kind | Period | How used |
|---|---|---|---|
| South African Reserve Bank Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 14 March 1958 (Notice No. 204) | official statistical series | 14 March 1958 | Reports gold reserve, notes in circulation, government deposits and discounts; ratio of gold reserve to liabilities 38.0 per cent. |
| Preliminary statement of shipping, import duties, imports and exports, January–February 1958 (Notice No. 213) | international trade or finance data | January–February 1958 vs 1957 | Gives imports by port and exports by commodity (gold-related, diamonds, wool, maize, minerals), with gold bullion sales noted from the Reserve Bank. |
| Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa statement of liabilities and assets, 31 December 1957 | company records or reports | year ended 31 December 1957 (with 1956) | Shows mortgage loans and cash credit advances to individual farmers and co-operatives and regulatory boards. |
| Regulations under Section 12 of the Statistics Act 1957: Census of the Motor Industry (Notice No. 481) | legislation gazette | calendar year 1957 returns, due 30 April 1958 | Prescribes establishment-level returns including employment by race, sex and occupation, wages, and race of owners. |
| Insolvency and estate notices (sequestrations, liquidations, executors' notices) | legislation gazette | March 1958 | Routine notices of sequestrated estates and deceased estates. |
Inference¶
Quantification: Descriptive tables.
Not an analytical work: a single issue of the Union Government Gazette (28 March 1958) reproducing official proclamations, notices and statistical statements. The Gazette itself is a primary source; no inference is drawn.
Key claims¶
| Claim | Basis | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| The Reserve Bank's gold reserve ratio stood at 38.0 per cent in March 1958. (p. 48) | Reserve Bank statement of assets and liabilities 14 March 1958. | Systematic data |
| Imports rose to about £104 million in January–February 1958 from £87 million a year earlier, while exports (excluding specie) fell to about £63.9 million from £72.3 million. (p. 52) | Preliminary statement of trade, Notice 213. | Systematic data |
Gaps in the evidence¶
The document is a raw Government Gazette, not an argument, so it has no claims of its own needing support. As a source, it offers single-period snapshots (one quarter or two months) without series, deflators or disaggregation by race, so it cannot support analysis of structural change. Fuller use would require the underlying census returns, Union Statistics volumes and Hansard or commission material, which exist in archives. The middle of the document was omitted, so some notices were not examined.
Replicability: Data public and well described.