Commonwealth EPG, CHOGM and Secretariat sanctions reports¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Commonwealth Secretariat
Coverage	1985-1990
Works using it	4

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	5
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Nishiura (2006)	Commonwealth Secretariat [1989] Banking on Apartheid: The Financial Links Report	post-1986	Source for the claim that at least 115 US companies withdrew after 1986 and about 59% sold to South African capital.
Nishiura (n.d.)	Commonwealth Secretariat (1989) Banking on Apartheid: The Financial Links Report	post-1986	Source for the figure that at least 115 US companies withdrew after 1986 and 59% of them sold to South African capital.
Rich (1990)	Apartheid Terrorism: The Destabilization Report, by Phyllis Johnson and David Martin (Commonwealth Secretariat, 1989)	1980s, to 1989	The reviewed report supplies casualty figures for MNR attacks (Homoine, Zimbabwe deaths) and an argument for a coherent South African destabilization strategy.
Rich (1990)	Banking on Apartheid: The Financial Sanctions Report (Commonwealth Secretariat, 1989)	1989	Listed as one of the four sanctions books under review; no data from it are discussed.
Rich (1990)	South Africa: the Sanctions Report, prepared for the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa (1989)	1989	One of the reviewed books; it is cited for its aim of reducing South African income and for its quotation of Frank Chikane on sanctions.
The Liberation Struggle in South... (n.d.)	Eminent Persons Group (EPG) Report, June 1986	1986	Summarised to date the 'possible negotiating concept' put to the NP government; the report itself is not cited or quoted.
The Liberation Struggle in South... (n.d.)	Nassau CHOGM final communiqué, October 1985	October 1985	Source for the listed package of common sanctions actions, including the krugerrand ban and trade-mission funding.