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- 1931 - 1954 (Creation)
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Correspondents : E. Calder (Chairman), O. Clark (Sec.), M.I. Fair (Sec.), M.S. Geen (Sec.), B. Huss J.D. Rheinallt Jones, J. Lewin, A.L. Saffery, Q. Whyte.
Subjects: Activities of the Joint Council and the following.
1931.
Request for sports and medical facilities in the location.
Complaints from standholders re imprisonment for rent arrears.
Vocational training and employment of Blacks.
Unemployment, poll tax and cost of living.
1932.
Reduction in salaries of African teachers.
Complaint about lack of Liaison between the Minister of Native Affairs and Blacks re legislation.
1933.
Enquiry into police treatment of Blacks at Frederik stad.
1934.
Poll tax leaflet.
Rehabilitation of Blacks at Machaviestad.
Damages claimed by Location Superintendent for allegations that location traders had to pay levies in kind.
Death-bed marriages of Blacks.
Health of Blacks in rural areas.
Fear that reduction in poll tax will lessen amount spent on Slack education and health.
1935.
Native marriages.
Conviction of Blacks for perjury in pass exemption cases, for omitting previous minor offences.
Appointment of public defenders or 'prisoners friends'.
1936.
Resolution on education for Slacks.
1937.
Attitude of Potchefstroom University College members to the Joint Council.
1938.
Hospitalisation for chronically ill Blacks.
Need for compulsory registration of births.
1940.
Appointment of a Black agricultural demonstrator at Machaviestad.
1941.
Evidence to the Inter-Departmental Committee of Enquiry into the economic, health and social conditions of Blacks in urban areas.
1942.
Need to train and arm Blacks.
Housing for Coloureds and Blacks.
1943.
Labour conditions in the smaller urban areas.
1945.
Addresses by J. D. Rheinallt Jones and O.D. Wollheim on Advisory Boards.
1946.
Ownership of illegitimate Black children.
1954.
Information that the Joint Council expired in 1948.