The Economics of the Colour Bar
Index
ACT OF UNION 1910, 17, 19
African Mine Workers Union (N. Rhodesia), 108-9
African National Congress, 103
African, The, leisure preference of, 49-50, 51 (f.n.), 54, 90; ‘tsotsi’, 25;
urbanisation of, 87-100; women, influx of from the reserves, 93
Afrikaans, 14-17;
and English, 42-43
Afrikaners, passim
colour attitudes of, 38-44;
poverty among, 32-37
Aliens Control Act 1963, 100
Andrews, W. H., 60, 61, 68 Apartheid, passim
Apprenticeship Act 1922, 35-36, 74-75
Apprenticeship, Registrar of, 94 (f.n.)
Artisan classes, 35;
emigrants, 58-59
Asiatic Land Tenure Act 1946, 124
BAASSKAP, 12, 110, 154, 161
Banfield, E. C., 149
Bantu Administration and
Development, Minister of, 98, 113, 131-3, 137-8, 151-72
Bantu Investment
Corporation, 159-60
Bantu Laws Amendment Bill, 104-5
‘Bantu’, reasons for use of term, 14
Bantustans, 95 (f.n.), 136, 139, 151-72, 180
Basutoland National
Council, 169
Bauer, P. T., 176 (f.n.), 177-8
Benham, F. C., 158 (f.n.)
Board of Trade and
Industries, 145-6
Boers, 15, 45-46
Boer War, 18, 50, 59
Border Areas, 95 (f.n.), 139-150
Botha, 61
Boydell, Dr. the Hon. T. H., 61 (f.n.)
Bristol-Myers Co., 138
Broederbond, 41-2
CALVINISTIC STUDENT
UNIONS, Federation of, 44
Cape Argus, 100 (f.n.), 140 (f.n.), 170
Cape Colony, emergence of, 14-15, 137 (f.n.)
Cape Times, 20 (f.n.), 119-20, 133, 140 (f.n.), 144 (f.n.), 146, 157, 170 (f.n.);
and the controversy
on the Constitution, 19-20
Chamberlain, Joseph, 45
‘Civilised labour policy’, 68-81, 82;
evasions of, 83-85
Colonialism, merits of, 11
‘Colour Bar Act’, see
Mines and Works Acts
Colour discrimination, economic, 27-31
Coloured Affairs, Minister of, 20, 111
Coloureds, The, 14;
as a privileged group, 25, 26 (f.n.), 28, 73;
building workers, 118;
economic opportunities of, 73;
effect of Group Areas Act on, 111-2;
farm labour of, 33-4 (f.n.);
origins of, 15;
political rights of, 18, 20;
‘skollies’, 25
Communism, passim
Communist Party in South Africa, 60, 68, 126, 134
Compound system, 52-53
DE BEERS, 60
Defence Act, 113
De Mist, 15 (f.n.)
Diamond mining, 48
Die Burger, 154
Doxey, G. V., 28, 36, 63 (f.n.), 92
Drift to the towns, 33
Dulles, F. R., 61 (f.n.)
Dutch East India
Company, 14, 16;
administrative system started by, 15 (f.n.)
Dutch Reformed Church, 39, 40-42
ECONOMIC AND WAGE COMMISSION 1925, 79
‘Eoan’ group, 84
FACTORIES ACT 1918, 74;
amendment of, 113
Fagan Commission 1948, 154
Financial Mail, 143
Frankel, S. Herbert, 50
Free market, benefits of, 173-80;
forces, suppression of, 33
Friedman, Milton, 7, 15
GEYSER, A. S., 41 (f.n.)
Gold mining, era of, 47-57
Gold, price of, 50, 82, 139
Group Areas Act, 24, 110-6, 124
HOTTENTOTS, 14, 15
IMMORALITY ACT, 24, 84, 113
Indians, The, 14, 121, 125; effect of Group Areas Act on, 110 (f.n.), 111, 124; immigration of, 17; success as traders of, 121-4
Industrial Conciliation
Act 1924, 29, 36, 67, 74, 76-78, 94, 104;
amendments to, 105-6, 117-20
Industrial Development Corporation, 141, 144 (f.n.)
Industrial Workers of the World, 60-61
‘Influx control’, 29, 73, 88, 93, 127-31, 141
Injustice, economic, 9-11
Intelligentsia, African, 26, 30;
Afrikaner, 38-39
Inter-marriage, 11 (f.n.), 15, 25
International Socialist League, 60
JAMESON, 45 (f.n.)
Job reservation, 73, 85, 94, 117-20
KAUNDA, KENNETH, 63 (f.n.)
Knights of Labour, 59
Kruger régime, 45 (f.n.), 60, 112
LABOUR, MINISTER OF, 74-75, 103, 113, 117-8, 144 (f.n.)
Labour-Nationalist ‘Pact’, 69-70, 74, 85, 108, 119
Labour Party, South African, 69
Labour unions, formation of, 59
Langa Location, 90 (f.n.)
Liberalism, economic, 11, 173-80
MALAN, DR. D. F., 153
Mann, Tom, 61
Masters’ and Servants’ Acts, 102, 104, 106-9
Matanzima, Chief Kaiser, 167, 170
Migratory labour problem, 92-93, 99
Mill, J. S., 178, 179
Mine owners, attitude of, 53-54, 56, 64-65, 91-92
Mines and Works Acts, 62, 68, 69-70, 94, 119
Mines recruitment organisation, 54, 91
Molteno, Donald, 144 (f.n.)
Mozambique, attitude to colour of, 10-11
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL RESEARCH, 165
Nationalist Party, 18, 20, 40-42, 69, 110
Native Building Workers’ Act, 95, 99 (f.n.)
Native Labour Regulation Act 1911, 102-3, 107
Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act 1953, 102-3
Native Land and Trust Act, 152
Native Laws Amendment Act 1952, 129, 136, 139-40
Native Urban Areas Act 1923, 128-9
Naudé, Rev. C. F. B., 41 (f.n.)
‘Ninety Days’ Rule, The, 134
Nkumbula, Harry, 63 (f.n.)
PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS, 103, 134
Pass Laws, 29, 88, 126-7
Pistorius, P. V., 164, 166
Planning, central, 136, 173-80
Poll tax, 33 (f.n.), 49, 54, 126
Poor Whites problem, 32-37, 58, 78, 85-86
Population Register Act, 114
Poqo movement, 26 (f.n.), 90, 147
Prejudice, colour, 11-12, 24-31
Progressive Party, 144 (f.n.), 156, 164
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 113-4
Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act 1959, 152
RATE FOR THE JOB, 72-73
Resentment, colour, 24-31
Reserves, native, 17, 21, 47-57, 98;
origins of, 151-2
Rhodes, Cecil, 45 (f.n.)
Rhodesian Federation, break-up of, 23
Robertson, H. M., 44
Roman-Dutch law, retention of, 39
Ruiterwag, 41
Rule of law, 11;
abandonment of, 134
‘SAY LAW’, 34 (f.n.)
‘Separate development’
(apartheid), passim
Slavery, abolition of, 15, 17;
Chinese, 44, 45-46, 54-55;
era of, 10
Slaves, importation of from Malaya, 15
Smith, Adam, 123
Smuts, J. C., 61
South African Act, see Act of Union
South African Industrial
Federation, 68 (f.n.)
South African Information
Office, 160-1, 162
Stallard Commission, 1921, 139
Status Act, 19
Steyn, F. S., 154
Suzman, Dr. Helen, 127 (f.n.), 163
THE TIMES, 135 (f.n.)
Tocqueville, 179
Tomlinson Commission, 1951, 91-92 (f.n.), 154, 158-9
Trade Union Council of South Africa, 104 (f.n.)
Transkei, 43;
opposition to self-government of people of, 166-7;
self-govemment, 22, 180
Tanskeian General Council, 19
Transkei Constitution Act 1963, 152-5
Transkei Territorial Authority, 167
Transkei Territories Civic Association, 137-8
Transvaal Miners
Association (South African Mineworkers Union), 60
Transvaal Ordinance No. 17, 1907, 61
Tribal customs, preservation of, 11;
ties of, 25, 88
Tucker, Josiah, 73
UNITED PARTY, 162-3, 168-9
VAN DER HORST, DR. S., 49 (f.n.), 90 (f.n.), 98 (f.n.), 140 (f.n.)
Van Riebeeck, Jan, 14
Van Selms, A., 41 (f.n.)
Von Humboldt, 179
Voortrekkers, 16-17
Voting rights of non-Whites, 18-20
WAGE ACT 1925, 29, 36, 67, 75, 80, 82, 103
Wage differentials, 71
Wage rates, 80;
in the clothing industry, 143;
in the mines, 55, 65, 72-73;
in secondary industry, 97
Webb, S. and B., 72 (f.n.)
Wesley, John, 10
Westminster, Statute of, 6, 19
Wilson and Mafeje, 26 (f.n.), 111 (f.n.)
World Council of Churches, 40 (f.n.)
XHOSA LANGUAGE, 43, 88, 152-3, 165-6
