TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 42

Commissions of Enquiry from 1960 - 1995

1960 Commission of Inquiry into Sharpville, Evaton and Vanderbijlpark Location Riots

Mandate: To inquire into and report on the events in the district of Vereeniging (especially in Sharpville and Evaton) and Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal.

Date of Report: 1960

Chair: WESSELS, P.J.

Ref: Ann. 125-61

1961 Judicial Commission on Langa Location Riots

Mandate: To inquire into and report on the riots in Langa, district of Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope, on 21 March 1960.

Date of Report: 1961

Chair: DIEMONT, M.

Ref: Ann. 126-61

1963 Commission appointed to inquire into the events on 20-22 November 1962 at PAARL and the causes which gave rise thereto

Mandate: To inquire into and report on the events at Paarl in the province of the Cape of Good Hope on the stated dates, and the causes of these events.

Date of Report: 20 June 1963

Chair: SNYMAN, J.H.

Ref: RP 51/1963

1963 Commission of Inquiry into the Postal Vote System and Registration of Voters

Mandate: To inquire into the postal vote system.

Date of Report: 1963

Chair: VAN DEN HEEVER, D.J.G.

Ref: RP 12/1963

1964 Commission of Inquiry into South West African Affairs 1962-1963

Mandate: To inquire thoroughly into further promoting the material and moral and the social progress of the inhabitants of South West Africa, and more particularly its ‘non white’ inhabitants, and to submit a report with recommendations for a five-year plan for the accelerated development of the various ‘non-white’ groups of South West Africa (inside and outside their own territories) and for the further development and building up of such ‘Native’ territories in South West Africa.

Date of Report: 1964

Chair: ODENDAAL, F.H.

Ref: RP 12-64