"A Munich situation": pragmatic cooperation and the Johannesburg Non-European Affairs Department during the early stages of apartheid
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2012-08-30
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Ball, James
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Abstract
This dissertation aims to reveal and explain how the evolving relationship between the
Johannesburg City Council and the Native Affairs Department affected urban African
administration during the early stages of Apartheid. It will add detail to a selection of key
disputes between the levels of Government in the mid 1950s and examine the Department’s
onslaught against the Council towards the end of the decade. It will trace the emergence of a
culture of pragmatic cooperation during the early 1960s and analyse internal divisions within
the United Party group in Council. It will finish by tracing the emergence of the
Administration Board system and suggesting that the period of pragmatic cooperation played
a role in delaying the ultimate decision to remove urban African administration from local
authorities. Throughout this dissertation the influence of key personalities like W.J.P Carr,
Manager of the Johannesburg Non-European Affairs Department and Patrick Lewis, the
Chairman of the Non-European Affairs Committee, will be explored.
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M.A. Uinversity of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2012