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Cape Town's labouring poor a century ago

EDNA BRADLOW
Pages 19-29 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • The Cape Times 30.6.1876
  • Ibid. 21.9.1876
  • Cape Archives. Criminal Records. Court of Resident Magistrate Cape Town. 1876–7. 1.6.1876
  • Ibid. 27.9.1876
  • South Africa. (Reprint of 1878 edition with introduction and editorial notes by J. H. Davidson, Cape Town 1973). 87
  • Ibid.
  • A26–79dd. 11.8.1879
  • G42–76. 1875 Cape Colonial census
  • 1875 . Descriptive Handbook of the Cape Colony. Cape Town
  • Hunt , E. M. 1973 . Regional Wage Variations in Britain 1850–1914 Oxford
  • Descriptive Handbook.
  • G42–76
  • Ibid.
  • Cape Archives. Town Clerk, Cape Town. 1/1/1/28, p. 311. Minutes of Cape Town Council
  • The Cape Argus 8.2.1876
  • The Cape Times. 1876. Magistrate's Court reports, passim.
  • Vol. XII, 217
  • Booth , C. 1969 . Hunt Regional Wage Variations.. Life and Labour of the People in London. 1st Series. Vol. IV. Revised edit. 1902 (Reprint, New York
  • The Cape Times 28.3.1876 et seq. Cape Town market prices
  • Booth . Life and Labour 140–141
  • The Cape Argus 8.1.1876 “In the slums”
  • The Cape Times. Magistrate's Court reports, 31.8.1876
  • Cape Archives Resident Magistrate's Court report, Cape Town. 1876–77
  • The Cape Argus 16.3.1876. Annual meeting, Licensing Board
  • Ibid. 30.9.1876
  • 1876 . Cape Archives. Town Clerk, Cape Town. 1/2/1/34. Assessment Roll.
  • Information from Mrs M. Cairns. The last two were probably freed slaves
  • Cape Archives. 7/112/1/34. Assessment Roll 1876–77. Better-off coloureds lived naturally in more expensive houses e.g. Jean Soutry's £100 houses in Brandsteeg
  • Noble , R. , ed. 1869 . The Cape and Its People Cape Town (ed.)
  • The Cape Times 30.10.1876. quoting Spons Information for Colonial Engineers.
  • The Cape Times 1.8.1876
  • Ibid. 29.9.1876
  • At 2/- per tub. Cape Archives, Criminal Records, Resident Magistrate's court 1876–77 indicates that October, a man who worked on the night soil cart, spilt a tub in Hout St. and refused to clean it up
  • Cape Archives. Town Clerk, Cape Town 3/1/1/11. Papers despatched 5.7.1876
  • Pritchard , E. , ed. 1889 . Cape Archives. Town Clerk, C. T. 5/4/3. Cape Town Sewerage
  • The Cape Argus. 8.1.1876. “In the slums”
  • Ibid. 31.8.1876
  • Ross , Dr. W. H. The Cape and its People Edited by: Noble . in (ed.)
  • Pritchard. op. cit.
  • In addition this line suggests some English/Dutch prejudice too
  • The Cape Times. 3.11.1880
  • Cape Archives. Criminal Records, Resident Magistrate's court, Cape Town
  • Botha , D. P. 1960 . Die Opkoms van ons Derde Stand. Cape Town
  • G. 56–79 Memorandum on the Administration of the Department of Public Education by the Superintendent General.
  • Langham Dale in R. Noble The Cape.
  • Malherbe , E. G. 1925 . Education in South Africa 1652–1922 95 – 96 . Cape Town
  • G 32–76. Report of the Superintendent General of Education for the year 1875
  • Ibid.
  • Cape Monthly Magazine. Vol. XIII, 194
  • Malherbe, 96. In a footnote he mentions that Inspector D. Ross found in the whole Cape in 1882, 32,443 coloured and 5906 white children in mission schools
  • G 32–76
  • G 2–78 Report of the Superintendent General of Education (S.G.E.) for the year 1877
  • Maurice , E. L. 1966 . The Development of policy in regard to the Education of Coloured pupils at the Cape 1880–1940 (Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, U.C.T., 34 quoting Education Commission 1879–1880, 221–222
  • G 2–77, Report of the S.G.E. for the year 1876
  • South Africa 78. See also E. C. Godée Molsbergen “Kaapsch Allerlei” Onse Eeuw IX. 2.1909
  • Maurice . 1
  • Ibid.
  • G 56–79. Memorandum on the Administration of the Department of Public Education by the Superintendent-Gen. 1
  • Behr , A. L. 1952 . Three Centuries of Coloured Education in South Africa. Potchefstroom University . (B. Ed, thesis, 191, quoting G 6A-90, 3, Dale
  • The Development of Policy, 59–60
  • Descriptive Handbook, 44
  • Booth, 131, quoting Mrs Woods A Village Tragedy.
  • Marais , J. S. 1939 . The Cape Coloured People 1652–1937. 206 Longmans Green
  • 1876 . Cape Archives. Criminal Records, Resident Magistrate's court Cape Town, 1876–1877. These cases are chosen from one week in July
  • 1876 . Ibid. 11.5
  • 1876 . The Cape Argus. 14.11. Police Court
  • 1876 . Ibid. 5.10
  • 1876 . Ibid. 17.10
  • 1876 . The Cape Times 7.10
  • 1876 . Ibid. 8.12
  • 1876 . The Cape Times 22.6., report of Assembly debate 20.6.187

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