Inter-Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Riots on Mines

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Republic of South Africa
Coverage	1975-1976
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Horner and Kooy (1980a)	Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Riots on Mines in the Republic of South Africa	c.1975	Supplies the official 'faction fighting' explanation of the riots, which the authors critique, and the prevention and suppression recommendations they analyse as mine and state control strategy.
Massey (1983)	Republic of South Africa, Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Riots on Mines in the Republic of South Africa, 1976 (unpublished)	1975-1976	Source for the commission's findings and secret recommendations to cut foreign labor, raise wages, and improve control, plus the worker consciousness conclusion.