Board for the Decentralisation of Industry reports and programme records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Decentralization Board
Coverage	1960-1992
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	5
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kerby (2016b)	Board for the Decentralisation of Industry (BDI) Annual Reports, 1970-1992, incl. incentive and concession disbursement series (National Archive Pretoria, TAB 7869-ZA etc.)	1970-1992	Builds the time series of incentives and concessions (Tables 2.2, 5.3, 5.5; Fig 2.7) used to show flat Phase 2 incentives and the Good Hope surge, and the incentive mix in Chapter 5.
Pickles (1988a)	SECOSAF: The Promotion of Industrial Development as an Element of a Coordinated Regional Development Strategy for Southern Africa: Manual on the Implementation of the Regional Development Incentives Introduced on 1st April 1982 (Board for the Decentralization of Industry, 1982; revised 1985)	1982, revised 1985	Source for the eight (later nine) development regions, the four types of industrial development area, the three criteria and the incentive ranges in Table 1.
Pickles (1988b)	SECOSAF, The Promotion of Industrial Development as an Element of a Coordinated Regional Development Strategy for Southern Africa: Manual on the Implementation of the Regional Development Incentives Introduced on 1st April 1982 (rev. 1985)	1982, revised 1985	Source for the development regions, the criteria for ranking them, the four types of industrial area, and the incentive table (Table 1).
Todes and Watson (1984)	1982 Decentralisation Board Report (cost per job)	1981-82	Basis for estimated cost of R15 932 in direct investment per industrial job in growth centres.
Todes and Watson (1984)	Republic of South Africa, Board for the Decentralisation of Industry, Report on the Activities of the Board 1 April 1982 to 31 March 1983, RP 52/1983	1982-83	Source for number of places receiving assistance, approved-project job figure (65 000), applications and employment in approved projects.
Tomlinson and Addleson (1986)	Decentralization Board Annual Reports (Table 4, and Annual Report 1984/85 Annexure D)	1975-1985	Documents projects, private investment and approved employment, showing a sharp rise after the 1982 concessions, plus the sectoral breakdown of approved applications.