Commonwealth Secretariat / Expert Group / Eminent Persons reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Commonwealth
Coverage	1986-1994
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Anglin (1995)	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Cyprus, Communique (October 1993)	October 1993	Shows the Commonwealth's decision to form an election observer group and fund African/developing country observers.
John (2000)	UK Foreign Affairs Committee, UK Policy Towards South Africa, Vol 1 (March 1991); Commonwealth Heads of Government Harare Communique (Oct 1991)	1991	Cited to show official recognition that financial sanctions were effective.
Stemmet (2002)	Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group report, 'Mission to South Africa' (1986)	1986	Establishes assessment of emergency, violence and failed negotiation concept.
Wilson (2011)	Beyond Apartheid: Human Resources in a New South Africa, Report of a Commonwealth Expert Group (1991), table 5.1	1989-1991	Source for black shares of professions (architects, engineers, computer programmers) in 1989 and the maths-denial under Bantu education.