De Kock Commission into the Monetary System and Monetary Policy

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	De Kock Commission
Coverage	1978-1985
Works using it	6

Debates

Debate	Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	4
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Du Plessis et al. (2008a)	De Kock Commission (1985), Final report of the commission of inquiry into the monetary system and monetary policy in South Africa (RP 70/1984)	1985	Cited for the shift in monetary policy regime in the 1980s from quantitative controls to market-based instruments, which motivates the 1983Q4 sub-sample and explains changes in monetary shock dispersion.
Kahn (1987a)	De Kock Commission Final Report, 'The Monetary System and Monetary Policy in South Africa' (RP 70/1984)	1984	Provides the Commission's arguments against exchange controls, which the paper quotes and critiques, and evidence for the downward bias in exchange rate policy.
Kahn (1987a)	De Kock Commission Interim Report, 'Exchange Rates in South Africa' (RP 112/1978)	1978	Establishes the shift to variable dollar pegging and the Commission's position on exchange rates and controls.
Kahn (1987b)	De Kock Commission Final Report, 'The Monetary System and Monetary Policy in South Africa' (RP 70/1984)	1984	Supplies the Commission's arguments and quotations on exchange control, capital flight and depreciation, which the paper critiques.
Kahn (1987b)	De Kock Commission Interim Report, 'Exchange Rates in South Africa' (RP 112/1978)	1978	Marks the shift to variable dollar pegging and the start of the case for relaxing exchange controls.
Kirsten et al. (2007)	De Kock Commission (1985), Brand Report (1988), Kassier Committee Report (1992)	1984-1992	Cited as milestones for monetary reform and for deregulation of marketing and price setting in the 1980s and 1990s.
Padayachee (1988)	Interim report of the de Kock Commission into Monetary Policy (1979)	1979	Mentioned as the inspiration for removing financial controls, culminating in abolition of the financial rand.
Verhoef (n.d.)	Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Monetary System and Monetary Policy in South Africa (De Kock Commission), RP 70/1984	1984	Used for the oligopoly and non-market monetary policy, Banks Act categories, disintermediation and the recommendation to dissolve ROCO.
Verhoef (n.d.)	Reports of the De Kock Commission RP112/1978 (exchange rates) and RP93/1982 (building societies, financial markets)	1978-1982	Context for the inquiry timeline preceding the final report that recommended ending ROCO.