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Cillie Commission on the Soweto riots

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer Cillie Commission
Coverage 1976-1980
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Davies (1979a) Secretary of Labour evidence to Cillie Commission, quoted in Rand Daily Mail 18 March 1977 1977 Shows official reluctance to abolish job reservation before the Wiehahn Commission was appointed.
Davies (1979b) Evidence of Secretary of Labour to the Cillie Commission, via Rand Daily Mail 1977 Shows departmental officials' earlier opposition to abolishing job reservation.
Hyslop (1987) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto and Elsewhere (Cillie Commission), Vol. 1, 1980 1974-1976 (published 1980) Source for school board meetings, dismissals, circulars and conflict over Afrikaans medium 1974-76.
Hyslop (1987) SAIRR, South Africa in Travail: Evidence Presented to the Cillie Commission (1978) 1976-77 Supports account of Meadowlands Tswana board vote for English medium.