A.

Documents concerning the Native Administration Bill, A.B.31-1927

A1.1

Explanatory memorandum by Major Herbst, Secretary for Native Affairs.  Typescript.  39pp.

A1.2

Main principles.  Typescript.  1p.  3 copies

A2.

Text to second Reading on 14/3/1927.  Printed.  Interleaved with typescript annotations.  25pp. + 13pp. annotations.

A3.

Bill as amended in Select Committee.  Printed.  33pp.

A4.

Bill as amended in Committee of the whole House.  Printed.  33pp.

A5.

Bill as read a third time.  Printed.  31pp.

A6.

Native Administration Act, 1927.  Act no. 38-1927.  Printed.  39pp.

B.

Memorandum on the Native Administration Bill, 1927, prepared by Major Herbst (Secretary for Native Affairs)

B1.

Legislation by proclamation re Natal Native Code [Section 21 of Bill].  Typescript.  2pp.

B2.

Jurisdiction of Native Commissioners Courts.  [Section 9].  Typescript.  3pp.

B3.

Validity of Native law and custom.  [Sections 1-27].  Typescript.  12pp.

B4.

Native administration.  Statutory foundations in various Provinces.  Typescript.  2pp.

B5.

Native Disputes Bill, 1912.  [S.B. 4-1912].  Copy of Bill as read a Third Time.  7pp.  With explanation of Bill.  Typescript, 3pp.  2 copies

B6.

Jurisdiction re Native cases in various Provinces.  Typescript.  17pp.

B7.

Memorandum re Native marriages in various Provinces.  Typescript.  19pp.

B8.

Legislation by proclamation : application to Europeans in Native areas.  Typescript.  2pp.

B9.

Clipping from Daily Dispatch, 11.7.1927.  The Hofmeyr Act of 1887, by Sol T Plaatj‚.

B10.

Clipping from Friend (Bloemfontein), 7.7.1927.  Native politics.

B11.

Letter (copy), L Campbell (Secretary, Alexandra Township, Ltd) to Major Herbst re position of Township.  Dated 20/4/1927.  Typescript.  2pp.

C.

The Native Trust and Land Act, No. 18 of 1936

C1.

Precis of evidence ...  Select Committee [S.C. 10-1927] on the Native Bills, 1927.  Stencilled.  25pp.  [See item C6 for Report].

C2.

Native Affairs Administration Bill (1917) [A.B. 6-1917] as amended in Select Committee.  Printed.  83pp.

C3.

Revised draft of Native Trust and Land Bill, as finally amended by the Joint Select Committee, 1932, and by the Commission.  Stencilled.  72pp.

C3.1

The Native Trust and Land Bill.  Some constructive criticisms.

C4.

The Act and Regulations.  Printed.  121pp.

C5.

Statement of Land Policy under the Act.  Printed.  7pp.

C6.

Report of the Select Committee [S.C. 10-1927] on the Native Bills, 1927.  Printed.  397pp.  [See item C1 for Evidence].

D.

Native Labour

D1.

Native Labour regulations, 1911.  Printed.  62pp.  Annotated in holograph, to 11.12.1933.

D1.1

Proclaimed labour districts Act 15/1911.

D2.

Convention ... introduction of Native labour from Mozambique into the ... Transvaal.  1928.  Printed.  28pp. [Another copy, item D6]

D3.-D3.1

Memorandum re history of Native Labour from 1797.  Typescript.  16pp.  2 copies.

D4.

Memorandum re Mozambique Convention, 1928.  [N.A. 225/280].  Typescript.  7pp.  Dated in ink, 11.11.1929.

D5.

Letter (Copy, translation) from the Governor General, Lourenco Marques, to the Minister of Native Affairs, re employment of Native labour in the mines.  Dated 10/2/1930.  Typescript.  5pp.

D6.

Convention ... introduction of Native labour from Mozambique into the ... Transvaal.  1928.  Printed.  28pp.  [Another copy, item D2]

D7.1- D7.9

Correspondence and statistical tables (labour returns, etc.) re recruitment of Native labour, 1931.  13 items.

D8.

Report of Government delegates to 14th Session of International labour Conference, June 1930.  Dated 8/12/1930.  Typescript.  22pp.

D9.

Report by H B Butler, Deputy Director, I L O, "Labour problems in Southern Africa".  Geneva, 1928.  Printed.  23pp.

D10.-

D10.1Memorandum on Masters and Servants Laws of various Provinces of the Union.  Typescript.  19pp.  2 copies.

D11.

Masters and Servants Law (Transvaal and Natal) Amendment Act, 1926.  [No. 26, 1926]  Text, clipped from the Government Gazette.  1p.

D12.

Native land Administration in the Transkeian Territories; report by W Carmichael, Magistrate, Engcobo.  Dated 29.10.1924.  Typescript.  43pp.

D13.- D13.1

Letter (copy) to Chief Magistrate, Transkeian Territories, from W T Brownlee, Butterworth.  Plea concerning the settlement of the Gaika people.   Dated 23/2/1931.  Typescript.  5pp.  2 copies.

D14.

Report re "District of Meroka (now Thaba'Nehu)" [O F S] to the O F S Administrator.  Covers the 1884-85 period.  With annexures.  Typescript.  53pp.

D15.- D15.1

Memorandum re Orange Free State Native (Barolong) Land

Relief Bill, 1924.  Typescript.  5pp.  2 copies.

D16.-

D16.1Original letter (plus copy) from N W Pringle, Chief Native

Commissioner, Pietermaritzburg, to Major Herbst.  Gives

statistics and other information re Immigration into

Zululand.  Dated 24/9/1928.  Typescript, signed.  2pp.

D17.

Memorandum giving approximate extent of scheduled and released areas [See Act 27-1913].  1p.

D18.

Memorandum and other documents re Section 147 of the South Africa Act in its relation to Prospecting on Crown Native Locations in the Transvaal.  Typescript.  5pp.

D19.

Memorandum (initialled) by H Rogers (Native Affairs Department) re shooting of game in Native Reserves in the Union.  Dated 12/11/1929.  Typescript.  5pp.

D20.-

D20.1Original holograph letter (2pp.) from Major Harries

(Magistrate, Lady Frere) to Major Herbst, dated in May

1931, enclosing a Typescript copy of his "Thesis" on the

fencing of Native areas.  (4pp.)

D21.- D21.1

Original letter (Typescript, signed) from M G Apthorp

(Chief Native Commissioner, King William's Town) to Major

Herbst.  Dated 2/3/1931.  4pp.  Encloses memorandum (with

annexures) re Native land tenure in the Ciskei.

Typescript, 27pp.

D22.-

D22.1Memorandum re Native occupation of Land, by E R Garthorne,

Under-Secretary for Native Affairs.  Dated 17/11/1922.

Includes discussions in the Prime Minister's Office and

various correspondence.  Typescript.  26pp.  2 copies.

D23.

Memorandum (initialled) by E R Garthorne, re Applications of Native Law since 1835.  Dated May 1924.  Typescript.  12pp.

D24.

Memorandum (initialled) by E R Garthorne, re Native segregation.  Dated 7/10/1924.  Typescript.  12pp.

D25.

Memorandum (initialled) by H Rogers, re Native Land Act, 1913 : Residence of Natives on European owned farms ... under "Leasing" or "Squatting" agreements.  Dated 24/2/1931.  Typescript.  8pp.

D26.

Memorandum [H Rogers ?] re Principal points of difference between Natives' Land (Amendment) Bill, 1927 and the land provisions of the Native Affairs Administration Bill, 1917.  Typescript.  4pp.

D27.

Memorandum on Chapter IIX of the Native Trust and Land Bill re Cape Province.  Typescript.  5pp.

D28.

Opinion of Law Advisers (E Mathews and H S van Zyl) on Conflict of the Natives Land Bill of 1913 with Section 34 of the South Africa Act.  Dated at Cape Town, 28/3/1913.  Typescript.  6pp.

D29.- D29.4

Two memoranda re Disposal of Land held under Natal Native

Trust at Umlazi Location; with correspondence on the

matter.  April 1923.  Typescript.  8pp.  5 items.

D30.

Memorandum [H Rogers ?] re Additional commonage ground in Mneotsho location, East London.  Typescript.  3pp.

D31.- D31.6

Minutes, circulars, etc., from the Native Affairs Department connected with the Native Land Act, 1913. ca.1923-24.  8 items.

D32.

Memoranda re Squatters.  Typescript.

D32.1

Laws regulating squatting in the various Provinces of the Union.  13pp.  [by H Rogers?]

D32.2

Native squatting : Transvaal.  Initialled E R G[arthorne].  Dated 26/9/1924.  6pp.

D32.3- D32.3.

Brief memorandum of the squatting laws of the various

Provinces.  [By H Rogers ?].  5pp.  9 copies, 4 in

 8

Afrikaans, 5 in English.

D33.1- D33.25

Correspondence, Notes and Statistical Statements re

Agricultural development, Sale of stock, etc. 29 items.

D34.

Reports and proceedings of the joint committees on Natives and Coloured persons during the period 1930-1934.  Printed 137pp.

D35.

Occupation of trading sites in Native areas.  [Department of Native Affairs publication].  1918.  Printed.  25pp.

D36.

Memorandum on the Private locations Act No. 32 of 1909 (Cape) and Regulations thereunder.  1918.  Printed.  11pp.

D37.

Typescript copies of extracts from the Cape Times, 18/9/1923 and 3/10/1923, re Supreme Court case re Private Location at the farm "Kraaifontein", in Durbanville.  2pp.

Manuscripts:

98 items

Printed documents:

16 items

Clippings:

3 items

Total  :

 117 items

E1.

South African Native Economic Commission (Holloway Commission) unpublished report of evidence.  2 523 pp.

  (See BZA76/75 - 76/76)