Source Archives¶
The scanned sources are kept read-only in shared_resources/raw_archives/, in 11 numbered domains, and the analysis-ready files are in shared_resources/data/. The working plan is ops_admin/data_program_2026_10/PLAN.md.
What is held¶
| Code | Domain | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Production censuses | Agricultural, manufacturing and mining census volumes, and the 2013 contract transcriptions |
| 02 | Elections | Returns, Delimitation Commission reports, and the 1980 delimitation map sheets |
| 03 | Geography | Maps, shapefiles, district classifications, rainfall |
| 04 | Population | Population census microdata (1960–2001, from DataFirst), household surveys, the Manpower Survey tape file |
| 05 | Labour | Work in Progress strike reports, wage agreements, the Surplus People Project volumes, public sector employment |
| 06 | Mining | TEBA/NRC archive (research use only) |
| 07 | Industry | Input-output tables, UNIDO and enterprise surveys |
| 08 | Corporate | McGregor's Who Owns Whom (1983, 1985, 1990, transcribed in 2013); Orbis (licensed) |
| 09 | Finance | Macro series, inflation, CPI |
| 10 | Social | SAIRR Survey of Race Relations, opinion surveys |
| 11 | Policy | Legislation, Government Gazettes |
Extracted by AI, not yet page-checked¶
None of these has been checked against the page. Each needs a sample page check before use, and the UJ books come first.
| Material | Rows | Note |
|---|---|---|
| TEBA/WNLA UJ annual books, 1957–69 | about 22,000 | Research use only |
| NRC and Chamber wage memoranda, 1938–62 | 8 files | Research use only |
| Work in Progress issues 3–32 (1978–84) | Only 86 rows that were read against the page enter the strike file | |
| 1988 and 1990 agricultural census | 3,338 | 1988 covers one region; 1990 is by statistical region |
| Rural immovable property, 1939–60 | 4,711 | |
| Pre-1949 agricultural census | Markdown, not yet parsed into tables | |
| Industrial council wage agreements; public sector employment | 868 files |
To acquire¶
Every source below has been located. Most of them are free.
| Source | Needed for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Manpower Survey printed reports: Nos 6–10, 14, 15 and 17; summaries of Nos 11–13 and 16; 1984; 1988–94 | Checking the tape file year by year | DataFirst, Manpower Survey 1965–1994, related materials (free login) |
| Surplus People Project, Forced Removals in South Africa, Vol 3 (Western and Northern Cape and OFS) and Vol 4 (Natal) | Removals from Natal and the OFS, which are missing from the removals file | DataFirst, Surplus People Project Survey 1980–1981, related materials (free login) |
| ACOA/Africa Fund, Unified List of United States Companies Doing Business in South Africa and Namibia (2nd edn, 1988), which marks firms that withdrew | Disinvestment series | African Activist Archive, Michigan State University (scanned) |
| IRRC directories of U.S. firms in South Africa (1982 onward) | Disinvestment series | Libraries; Africa Fund records at the Amistad Research Center, Tulane |
| UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, List of transnational corporations with interests in South Africa and Namibia (E/C.10/AC.4/1989/8 and other years) | Disinvestment series | UN Digital Library |
| Reid/Arthur D. Little reports on Sullivan signatories; Commonwealth Secretariat, South Africa: The Sanctions Report (1989) | Disinvestment series | Libraries only |
| Four damaged labour-agent notices, Government Gazette 1911–19 | Licence panel, 1911–19 | UK National Archives (Union Government Gazettes); Center for Research Libraries |
| SAIRR Survey of Race Relations, 1977–90 | Background series (low priority) | Libraries |
Provenance index¶
shared_resources/data/docs/inventories/PROVENANCE_INDEX.csv links 1,808 CSVs to a source publication and method (see Provenance & Checks).