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Debates

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Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 21
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 14
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 14
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 11
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 11
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 11
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 10
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 7
Data reliability and econometric method 6
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 5
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 5
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 5
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 5
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 5
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 4
Education, Bantu Education and skills 4
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 4
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 4
Historiographical approaches 3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 3
Living standards, health and social policy 3
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 3
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 2
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 2
Resistance and liberation movements 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1983) Commission for Coloured Affairs, Report for the year ended 31 March 1952, U.G. 45/1952 1951-52 Quoted for the claim that African competition harmed unskilled Coloured labour in the 'traditional sphere' of the Coloureds.
(ed.) et al. (1987) Extract from the Annual Report of the Commission for Administration on privatisation and deregulation c. 1986/87 Describes the Commission's privatisation programme, phases, forms of privatisation, criteria and the number of investigations completed.
(ed.) et al. (1987) Government 'Framework for the Discussion on Privatisation' (November 1986 Pretoria Indaba, confidential draft) November 1986 Compared with the White Paper to show a toning down of privatisation momentum.
(ed.) et al. (1987) Report of the Margo Commission on Taxation, incl. para 25.104 SA Reserve Bank bank-debit statistics and a table on tax/GDP 1983-1987 Nel criticises its CBT proposal, and uses its Reserve Bank transaction figures to extrapolate a Transaction Tax base; Thomas cites its tax/GDP table.
(ed.) et al. (1987) White Paper on Privatisation and Deregulation in the Republic of South Africa (WPG 87), August 1987 1987 (data to 1985) Reproduced in full as Appendix 2; supplies the official policy framework, macro-statistics on public sector investment and the list of already-privatised activities, and is analysed by Thomas and others.
Abel (2014a) Government statements and policy documents (1955 government report, 1959 White Paper, Minister of Bantu Administration speech 1973) 1955-1973 Quoted to document the stated rationale for ethnic homeland policy and removals.
Africa (1976) Annual Report of the Secretary for Agricultural Economics and Marketing, July 1973 - June 1974 1973–74 Source for agriculture's falling share of GDP (about 7.7% in 1973).
Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012) Commission of Inquiry into the Bread Subsidy (SA, 1985) 1985 (data 1951-1985) Source for mill and baker concentration figures, loaf consumption in 1978 and black share of consumption, and the recommendation to remove the subsidy.
Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Marketing Act (SA, 1976) 1976 Documents official concern about restrictive registration and concentration in milling and baking, including bakery numbers 1941-1971.
Baldwin (1975) Murial Horrell, Housing Schemes for Urban Africans in Municipal Areas and the Homelands, SAIRR, January 1972; 1969 government circular; Star 19 May 1971 1969-1972 Documents the 1969 government circular and planners' commuting-distance assumptions behind removal of urban Africans to homelands.
Bekker and Coetzee (1980) Federated Chamber of Industries, 'Nywerheidsdesentralisasie in Suid-Afrika' (1975) / Department of Planning, Decentralisation - Growth Points (1977) 1975-1977 Documents decentralisation growth points and incentives linked to coloured labour.
Bekker and Coetzee (1980) Interim Report on Economic Potential of Western Cape (Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch, 1979) 1979 Cited for the regional economic context of the Western Cape.
Bekker and Coetzee (1980) Subcommittee of the Interdepartmental Committee report 'Bantoebehuising in Wes-Kaaplandse Stedelike Gebiede' (Louw Commission), 1965 1965 Source for the proposal that no new family housing be built in black areas, only hostels convertible to coloured use.
Bell (1973) Prime Minister's Statement on establishment of industries in the Border areas, 2 June 1960 1960 Defines border areas (30 miles from Bantu areas) and 1960 incentive package and wage policy.
Bell (1973) Schumann Committee Report on Railway Rating Policy and Industrial Location in South Africa (1964) 1964 Authority for market and gold-mining demand as location determinants and prediction of continued centralisation.
Bell and Padayachee (1984) Two recent government reports on trade and exchange rate policy (unnamed) early 1980s Cited to indicate that official policy is shifting toward an open, outward-oriented economy; the reports are neither named nor analysed.
Bendix (1989) Industrial Court decisions (Stag Packaging, Council of Mining Unions strike dismissal case) and Cameron on s43 jurisprudence 1979-1988 Case law used to illustrate fairness guidelines, reinstatement remedies and treatment of dismissed strikers.
Best (1971) H. F. Verwoerd, Statement on the Establishment of Industries in Border Areas (mimeographed, Industrial Development Corporation files, 1960) 1960 Source of the official definition of 'border areas' and the first major policy statement.
Binswanger and Deininger (1993) Commissions on the land question in the 1950s (South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe) 1950s Cited for the conclusion that lasting solutions required removing constraints on African access to markets and land outside reserves.
Budeli et al. (2008) South African case law, including Industrial Court decisions (e.g. Mazibuko v Mooi River Textile; MAWU v Transvaal Pressed Nuts Bolts & Rivets) and Ex parte Minister of Justice: In re R v Gerstner 1930 AD 420 1930-1996 Used to show how the Industrial Court introduced fairness and ILO standards, and how judges read the wage legislation.
Carter (1958) Commission of Inquiry on Separate Training Facilities for non-Europeans at Universities (Holloway), 1954 1953-1954 Source for enrolment figures of non-European university students and the Commission's stand against segregation.
Christopher (1991) Cape of Good Hope (1988), Monitering van Ontwikkelingsgebiedaansoeke, Cape Provincial Administration (unpublished) 1987-88 Supplies proclaimed Black land figures in the Cape for computing urban Blacks per proclaimed hectare.
Christopher (1991) Natal (1988), List of Black townships under the jurisdiction of the Natal Provincial Administration (unpublished) 1987-88 Supplies Black township land in Natal for the comparison of density with other groups.
Christopher (1994a) South Africa: Department of Foreign Affairs List 1993 1993 Establishes the increase from 23 to 39 South African missions under de Klerk and the 1993 distribution (Fig 6).
Cobbett and Nakedi (1987) Communique of July 1977 Pretoria meeting between central state, Mopeli (QwaQwa) and Mangope (Bophuthatswana) July 1977 Used to show that the resettlement of Sotho from Thaba'Nchu was foreshadowed before the violence.
Cobbett and Nakedi (1987) Department of Co-operation and Development claims on 'voluntary' removal of Luckhoff residents 1984 Official claim of voluntariness contrasted with residents' reports of threatened force.
Cobbett and Nakedi (1987) General Circular No. 25 of 1967, 'Settling of Non-productive Bantu Resident in European areas, in the homelands' 1967 Quoted as a clear statement of state intent that Africans are temporary residents of white areas only while productive.
Cobbett and Nakedi (1987) State industrial decentralisation incentive package for Onverwacht (wage subsidy up to R100 per worker per month, etc.) 1987 Describes the incentives that attract capital to Onverwacht and underpin the cheap-labour argument.
Coupe (1990) NIPR/CSIR C/Pers 184, R.H. Blake (ed), Labour Turnover: An Investigation, September 1970 1970 Case of Domani Stainless Steel advised to improve remuneration given coloured/Indian labour dissatisfaction.
Coupe (1995) D. W. F. Bendix, The Manpower Situation and Black Labour in the SA Motor Repair Shop Industry (Institute of Labour Relations, UNISA, 1976) 1976 Provides evidence on productivity, repair shop assistant ratios, and the effects of the closed shop in motor repair.
Coupe (1995) S. P. K. Hall and N. van Schalkwyk, Investigation into Management and Personnel Practices at Volkswagen (S.A.) (NIPR, 1975) 1975 Shows that racist foremen blocked Volkswagen management's productivity strategy.
Crush and James (1995b) Chamber of Mines testimony to government commissions of inquiry (1950s) and Gemmill evidence of 1952 1940s-1950s Documents the Chamber's defence of migrancy and its stabilisation targets (12 percent, then 3 percent).
Crush and James (1995b) Government Mining Engineer annual reports RP 25/1983 and RP 46/1987; Marais Committee reports 1982-1990 Used for white employment trends and the Kinross disaster characterisation.
Crush and James (1995b) Historical commissions on mine labour (Buckle 1914, Holloway 1932, Fagan 1948, Froneman, Du Randt, Riekert, Wiehahn) 1914-1980 Referred to as the historic debate on migrancy, with no data drawn from them.
De Klerk (1990) Economic Advisory Council of the State President, Report of an Investigation into the Restructuring of Agriculture (1986) 1980-1985 Used for the decomposition of the 1980-85 rise in farm debt into drought (22%), interest rates (31%) and terms of trade (47%).
Delimitation Commission and P. M. Cilliers (Chairman) (1974) Departmental recommendations of the Department of the Interior on practical amendments late 1973 Led to modifications of the provisional plan to ease application of the Electoral Laws.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Ad Hoc Committee Report, Sekhukhuneland Location, 1954 (NTS 10248/38/423(1)A) 1954 Shows that officials feared rural villages would undermine the tribal ties needed for Bantu Authorities.
Devereux (2007) Report on an Investigation into the Possible Establishment of a Contributory Pension Scheme for South Africa (1976) 1976 Cited as a source for Table 1 payment rates and for the Commissioner of Pensions' 1957 concerns about rising pensioner numbers.
Di McIntyre et al. (1995) Blecher and McIntyre (1994); Bunting (1994); Deloitte and Touche (1994a, 1994b); Price and Broekmann (1994) HER technical reports 1991-1995 Research and training spending, donor funding survey, planned capital projects, and provincial hospital expenditure trends.
Di McIntyre et al. (1995) Steinmetz Commission Report (South Africa 1993) and Melamet Commission Report (South Africa 1994) 1993-1994 Evidence of drug shrinkage in hospitals (500 million rands) and solvency problems of medical schemes.
Di McIntyre et al. (1995) Uniform fee structure report: South Africa (1993) Final report of the committee of investigation into a uniform fees structure; McIntyre (1994a) 1992/93-1994/95 Fee schedules for public hospitals and clinics and their comparison with private tariffs (RAMS scale of benefits).
Dubb (2012) Rorich Commission: Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Sugar Industry (1982) 1982 Provides SSG grower and tonnage figures for 1973-80, expansion projections, miller/KwaZulu submissions and the recommendation to abolish transport subsidies.
Dubb (2012) Van Biljon Commission of Inquiry into the Sugar Industry (1970) 1970 Describes the regulatory pillars (freight absorption, marketing, small grower/miller subsidies, grade-2 sugar, 1968 loans) before FAF.
Evans (1997) Report of the Enquiry into Unrest in Eastern Pondoland (van Heerden Commission), 1960 1960 Provides peasants' and chiefs' testimony on Bantu Authorities, rehabilitation, pass books and corruption, underpinning the account of rural revolt.
Fine and Rustomjee (1996) Competition Board Annual Reports and Published Investigations 1980-90 1980-1990 Used to catalogue investigations and show that anti-monopoly regulation never challenged large-scale capital.
Fine and Rustomjee (1996) Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs Annual Reports (1980, 1981) 1980-81 Documents the institutional concentration of energy and mineral policy in one department and the Energy Policy Committee.
Frankel (1979) Report of the Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Events of the 20-22nd November 1962 at Paarl (1962) 1962 Cited for corruption in administration of influx control.
Frankel (1979) Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society, Report of the Law Commission (1972) 1972 Cited on administration and justice problems of influx control.
Frankel (1979) Viljoen Commission: Commission of Inquiry into the Penal System of South Africa (1976) 1976 Links influx control to prison congestion and township crime; recommended decriminalisation of pass laws, ignored by government.
Giliomee and Schlemmer (1985) Regional Development Policy Manual (1982) and Multilateral Co-operation in Southern Africa (1983) 1982-1983 Describes the 1982 decentralisation incentives and regional structure assessed by Maasdorp.
Giliomee and Schlemmer (1985) Select committee of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly on displaced citizens, 1978 (26 resettlement areas) 1978 Documents evictions, forced stock sales and conditions in resettlement areas.
Greenberg (1987) Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Control Measures (Van Rensburg), 1967 1967 Shows officials themselves lamenting illegal residence and work and the 'workshy' unemployed in white urban areas.
Hallett (1984) Letter from the Deputy Minister of Cooperation and Development to a Transvaal community, 1978 (quoted by SPP) 1978 Shows the euphemistic official presentation of coerced relocation as voluntary.
Harris (2002) Archives Year Book for South African History (SAS series, from 1938) and SAS official history of the South African War 1938-1990s Used as evidence of ideological selection in SAS publication projects, via Grundlingh's analysis.
Harris (2002) State Archives Service, Handbook, 15:35 n.d. Defines 'offices of record' excluded from the SAS custodial mandate.
Hendrie (1976a) Department of Statistics investigation into census maize discrepancy 1970/71 Cited to explain the maize discrepancy as farmers' misreading of 'production season'.
Hendrie (1976b) Department of Statistics, Annual Report of the Statistics Council and the Secretary of Statistics for 1974 1974 Quoted to show that a proposal to use sample surveys was rejected because the police assist the census.
Hindson (1987) Buthelezi Commission argument on oscillating migration (quoted by Schlemmer) early 1980s Quoted by Schlemmer, and noted by the reviewer, as the claim that oscillating migration lets market forces reinforce imbalances.
Hoffman and Todd (2000) Hill Kaplan Scott (1985), Transkei Soil Conservation Programme: Reconnaissance Survey Report 1985 Independent soil erosion assessment correlated with workshop data as a reliability check.
Horrell (1968) Report of the Department of Bantu Education, 1965 (R.P. 55/66) 1965 Source for African enrolment, teachers' qualifications, school boards, double sessions.
Horrell (1968) Reports of the Department of Coloured Affairs (R.P. 22/67) and Education Council for Coloured Persons (R.P. 14/67) 1965-1966 Describes Coloured reserves, expenditure and teacher dissatisfaction.
Horrell (1968) Reports of the Transkeian Education Department 1965 and Annual of the Transkeian Government 1967 1965-1967 Supplies Transkei school, teacher, employment and development data.
Horrell (1970) Rhodesian Minister of Defence and Justice statements on guerrillas and death sentences 1965-1968 Provides figures on guerrillas killed and Africans sentenced to death.
Horrell et al. (1972) Report of the Commissioner of Prisons, 1 July 1969 to 30 June 1970 (R.P. 102/1970) 1969-70 Supplies prison admissions by race and sentence length and death sentences/executions.
Horrell et al. (1972) Report of the Department of Railways and Harbours 1969-70 and General Manager of Railways report 1969-70 Supplies passenger journey numbers and African commuter numbers and subsidy.
Hyslop (1987) Lebowa Legislative Assembly verbatim report, 1974 session 1974 Cited for Chief Matlala's views in Lebowa politics.
Johnson (1982) Education and the South African Economy (Education Panel, 1961), published 1966 1960-1966 Source for 1960 per capita expenditure on white and African pupils and for the 1960s reform recommendations.
Kaplan (1989) Annual Report of the Postmaster General (1958) 1958 States the object of the Manufacture and Supply Agreements as stimulating local manufacture.
Kaplinsky (1995) Policy documents: SACOB (1991), Nationalist Government Normative Economic Model (CEAS 1993), World Bank (1993) An Economic Perspective on South Africa 1991-1993 Represent the factor-price-distortion view that the paper tests and rejects, particularly the call for wage restraint.
Kerby (2014) Bureau for Economic Research re Bantu Development (BENSO), Black development in South Africa (1976), Statistical Survey of Black Development 1980 and 1981 1971-1975 wages (reports 1976-1981) Official minimum and maximum unskilled male and female wages 1971-75 used as a proxy for RIDP zones and to corroborate estimates.
Kerby (2014) Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa: five SALDRU working papers (Thomas 1984, Abedian 1983, Ardington 1984, Bank 1984, McCarthy 1984) early 1980s Field and survey-based wage estimates for early 1980s, covering both TBVC and non-independent homelands.
Kerby (2016b) Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty working papers (Thomas 1984, Abedian 1983, Ardington 1984, Bank 1984, McCarthy 1984) and Wilson & Ramphele (1989) 1980s Five archived working reports supply early-1980s wage estimates and employment effects for the wage series.
Kirsten et al. (2007) Authors' compilation of financial aid to farmers from official documents (Appendix Table 3); Agricultural Credit Act programmes 1981-1992 Summarizes Rand amounts of financial assistance programs to farmers in the 1980s.
Knight (1976b) Froneman committee (1963) report on employment of foreign Africans, as summarised by Ken Owen (SAIRR 1963) 1960-1963 Estimates of foreign African workers in 1960 and recommendation to replace them with indigenous labour.
Kok et al. (2006) Apartheid-era commissions: Stallard Commission (1922), Holloway Commission (1932), Fagan Commission (1948), Riekert Commission, President's Council report (1985) 1922–1985 Cited via Lemon, Unterhalter and Gelderblom & Kok to trace the evolution of influx control policy.
Krugell (2014) Apartheid-era commissions, reports and policy documents (Lagden, Fagan, Tomlinson, Riekert, Franzen, Klue reports; White Papers; physical planning laws) as described by secondary authors 1902-1986 Narrative context listing the policies and reports that shaped the apartheid spatial economy; the documents themselves are not analysed.
Kynoch (2000) Bregman Report, vol. 4, Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Violence at Vaal Reefs Mine, No. 1 Shaft Hostel During 1986 1986 Finds no evidence that Russians were hired by management against the NUM.
Kynoch (2000) Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Events at the Bafokeng North Mine During March 1992 1992 Used to show Russian-Basotho conflict with NUM and ANC-affiliated marshals at Bafokeng North.
Lemon (1982) Government research organization findings on homelands c. 1980-81 Cited in the PFP campaign as showing homeland consolidation and viability to be impracticable and urban blacks to have few homeland ties.
Lemon (1984b) Ministry of Indian Affairs statement on interprovincial movements of Indians, Fiat Lux, June-July 1975 1975 Supports the claim that Indians are excluded from the Orange Free State and parts of northern Natal.
Lemon (1995) Report of an investigation into the Possibilities for Educational Development in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe after a Political Settlement (Atkinson et al., 1978) 1978 Cited as an unofficial report that probably influenced the 1979 Education Act.
Lodge (1998) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the former Department of Information, RP/113/1978 1978 Documents the Information Department scandal as an instance of grand corruption using secret funds.
Maylam (1990) Technical Sub-Committee on Race Zoning, First Report Part I (June 1951) and Draft Notes on the Group Areas Act 1950-1951 Shows the Durban corporation's enthusiasm for group areas and its specific zoning plans.
Mazower (1990) The Native Policy of the Union of South Africa, statement by Dr E.G. Jansen, G.P. S4279, 1950-51 1950-51 Shows the Nationalist government's cautious stance on compulsion for farm labour.
Milburn and Cole (1957) Commonwealth of Australia, Royal Commission on Espionage, Report (1955); Victoria Royal Commission on the Communist Party (1950) 1950-1955 Listed as sources on the history of the Communist Party.
Minkley (1990) East London City Council and SAR&H Administration brochure, 1950 1950 Evidence of boosterist perception of cheap, abundant non-white labour.
Moll (1996b) Department of Education and Training (1983) Annual Report; van Rensburg (1975) HSRC Report WS-10 1930-1965 Source for the long-run African pupil-teacher ratios from 1930 to 1965.
Morris (1987) Correspondence between the Bloedfontein community/lawyer and Deputy Minister Ben Wilkens, Oct 1985-Nov 1986 1 Oct 1985 - 28 Nov 1986 Shows the state's decision to incorporate the farms into Bophuthatswana, its reliance on the Moepi claim, and its refusal to consult residents.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) President Botha's April 1986 revelation of oil sanctions-busting costs 1974-1984 Sole official figure for the cost of evading oil sanctions (R22bn extra, ~10% of export earnings).
Pankhurst (1996) National Development Strategy for SWA (mid-1980s) mid-1980s Shows official concern about environmental degradation and a policy of helping large herders and promoting individual tenure.
Pankhurst (1996) Odendaal Commission Report (1964) 1964 Shows the Namibian state's rural policy priorities in the 1960s: ethnic homelands, extended reserves and communal tenure, with little development or conservation content.
Parnell and Mabin (1995) Report on the Possible Urbanisation of the Umlazi Mission Reserve, Durban (Provincial Town and Regional Planner, Natal, May 1949) 1948-1949 Shows Greater London-style decentralised planning proposals applied to an African town at Umlazi.
Posel (1990a) Interdepartmental Committee of Enquiry into 'Idleness and Unemployment Among Urban Bantu' (Botha Report), 1962 (unpublished) 1962 Used to show that work seekers from outside the towns were admitted despite an urban surplus, i.e. the ULPP was not enforced.
Posel (1990a) Native Affairs Department conference papers and W Eiselen, 'The Demand for and the Supply of Bantu Labour in Johannesburg', Bantu 1958 1950s Documents state aims of the ULPP, rationalising urban labour supply and tolerating only 'small' surpluses.
Posel (1990b) Memorandum Explaining Background and Objects of Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Bill 1959, N.P. 3-1959 1959 Shows official government opposition to Section 10 rights as policy from 1959.
Posel (1990b) White Paper on Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Decentralisation of Industries, 1970 1970 Establishes authorisation of labour quotas with White:African ratio of 1:2.5 then 1:2.
Potgieter et al. (1966) Natural Resources Development Council declarations of Controlled Areas Nos. 1 and 5 (Orange Free State) pre-1965 Used to justify community of interests and creation of Virginia as the 15th Free State seat.
Raper (1987) Manual for the Giving of Place Names (1979) 1979 Source of the NPNC principles and guidelines on naming and spelling, reproduced in adapted form.
Raper (1987) Official Place Names in the Union and South-West Africa (1951) and Official Place Names in the Republic of South Africa and in South-West Africa (1978) 1951, 1978 Authority for officially approved names, marked with an asterisk in the dictionary, and for spelling and form guidelines.
Schirmer (1995) Inter-departmental Commission of Enquiry into the Labour Tenant System (Nel Commission), 3 vols, 1960 1960 Cited for the state's decision to abolish labour tenancy nationally.
Schirmer (1995) Report into Agricultural Credit (De Swardt), U.G. 16-61 1961 Supports claim of expanded credit to cooperatives promoting mechanisation after the war.
Schirmer (1999) Soil Conservation Board Annual Reports, 1965-66 and 1968-69 1965-1969 Shows officials' growing frustration that small farmers took subsidies without committing to conservation.
Schirmer (2004) Inter-Departmental Committee of Enquiry in connection with the Labour Tenant System (1960 hearings; report 1961) 1960-1961 Testimony from farmers' associations and individual farmers shows continued dissatisfaction with labour relations and support for mechanisation as a solution in 1960.
Schirmer (2004) Report into Agricultural Credit (1961) and Wickens 1983 (Land Bank loans to cooperatives) 1945-1955 Provides Land Bank loan totals to cooperatives showing the scale of state-subsidised credit.
Schlemmer et al. (1983) Official reports on Eastern Cape strikes Not stated (1970s-early 1980s) Cited to show that official reports list economic or work-related causes for strikes, supporting the instrumental-strike claim.
Schneider (2000) Our First Half Century: 1910-1960 (South African state publication, quoted in Clark 1994) 1910-1960 Quoted as official self-assessment of ISCOR's significance.
Seekings (1990) East Rand Administration Board (ERAB) 1975-76 Budget Speech by SJ van der Merwe, 12 March 1975 1975 Documents the completion of Charterston removals in 1975 and official commendation.
Sources of Growth in the... (1990) Viljoen, Reynders, Kleu and Riekert commission reports; 1960 border-areas statement; 1967 Physical Planning Act 1958-1982 Used to read state development and industrial strategy shifts from commission recommendations and legislation.
Standish (1976) General Report of the S.R.C. Wages Commission, University of Natal, on a survey of the wattle growing industry of the Natal Mist Belt, 1972 1972 Cited in footnote regarding the Primary P.D.L. for the average African family of 5.5 persons.
Stemmet (2002) Bureau for Information booklets 'Die Nasionale Noodtoestand' (1988), 'Talking With The ANC' (1986) 1986-1988 Official justification of the states of emergency.
Stemmet (2002) Kannemeyer Commission report (Uitenhage, 21 March 1985), RP 74-1985; Economist Intelligence Unit Special Report 1130; Schlemmer 1991 township survey 1985-1991 Listed reports; cited generally.
Suttner (2004) ANC 'Green Book', Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the ANC NEC, August 1979 1979 Shows ANC's long-standing aim to build mass internal organisation, relevant to the ANC-UDF relationship.
The Liberation Struggle in South... (n.d.) De Lange commission on education (1981) 1981 Noted as a commission whose recommendations were rejected, with education spending nonetheless increased.
Torchia (1988) National Development and Management Foundation of South Africa, The Effective Utilisation of Labour with Particular Reference to Non-White Labour (1972) 1972 Cited for examples of manufacturers' attempts to improve labour productivity.
Trapido (1970) Unspecified reports on urban African family incomes relative to the poverty datum line c. 1930-1970 Supports the claim that urban African wages remained near or below subsistence.
Van Vuuren (2006) Auditor-General reports (secret funds, CCB expenditure, House of Representatives 1990, KwaNdebele, KaNgwane) 1979-1994 Quantifies unauthorised CCB spending and homeland audit failures.
Van Vuuren (2006) Commission of Enquiry into Alleged Irregularities in the Former Department of Information (Erasmus Commission) and supplementary report, 1978-79 1978-1979 Basis for account of the Information Scandal and criticism of the commission's thoroughness.
Van Vuuren (2006) Commission of Enquiry into Certain Alleged Murders (Harms Commission, 1990) 1989-1990 Evidence on Vermaas's friendships with ministers and the Reserve Bank's handling, and the Kerzner–Matanzima payments.
Van Vuuren (2006) Other commissions of enquiry (Lebowa 1989; DET 1989; Development Aid 1991 (Pickard); KwaNdebele 1993 (Parsons); Goldstone 1993; State Land 1997; van Zyl; van der Heever; Nel; Skweyiya) 1989-1997 Documents departmental and homeland corruption examples.
Van Zyl et al. (1987b) Unpublished reports of the Department of Agriculture (annual levels of parameters) 1945-1985 Cited as the location of exact yearly levels of the parameters; the paper reports only trends.
Venter (1979) Report of the Steyn Committee on incorporating Griqualand East into Natal (October 1976) 1976 Its finding that Transkei's claim lacks factual foundation is the official position which the author queries with census data.
Verhoef (n.d.) Report of the Technical Committee on Banking and Building Society Legislation, RP 50/1964 1964 Listed in references as background to banking legislation; Technical Committee argument that commercial banks create money.
Washington Office on Africa (1985) Official government reports on deaths in police action during the emergency (unspecified) 21-25 July 1985 Source for the figure of 15 killed by police since the emergency began.
Williams (1996) Board of Tariffs and Trade, 'An Investigation into the Price Mechanism in the Food Chain', Report 3273 (Pretoria, 1992) 1992 Source of Bank argument that food marketing margins reflect wage inflation; Williams finds it unconvincing.
Wotshela (2012) Surplus People's Project Report, Forced Removals in South Africa (1983), especially vol. 2, The Eastern Cape 1983 Cited as attesting to the fortunes of relocated families in transit camps in Ciskei.