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Kind commission or official report
Producer Various
Coverage 1994-2012
Works using it 28

Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 7
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 6
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 5
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 4
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Data reliability and econometric method 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Historiographical approaches 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Atkinson (2007) Department of Labour (2001) Determination of Employment Conditions in South African Agriculture 2001 Used to analyse the minimum wage rationale and anticipated job losses.
Atkinson (2007) Free State Department of Education figures (2005) and 1996 Free State Department of Agriculture commission report 1996, 2005 Counts farm schools lacking water, sanitation, electricity and records farmers' concerns.
Atkinson (2007) Provincial Growth and Development Strategies (eight provinces) 2003-2004 Counts mentions of farm worker issues to show policy neglect outside the Western Cape.
Atkinson (2007) Review of 16 municipal Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) downloaded from DPLG IDP website c. 2002-2004 Content-coded to show how little rural service delivery to farm workers appears in municipal plans.
Atkinson (2007) Rural development policy documents: Rural Development Strategy (1995), Rural Development Framework (DLA 1997), ISRDS (DPLG 2000), White Paper on Population Policy (1998), NDA strategic documents 1995-2004 Show a policy void on farm labour in post-1994 rural strategies.
Atkinson (2007) Setplan/MXA (2002) evaluation of farm worker sanitation projects in Northern Cape (Mvula Trust) 1999-2001 Provides equitable share and sanitation funder tables for TRCs.
Bell (1995) Joffe, Kaplan, Kaplinsky and Lewis (1995), ISP Report (Table 1 on TFP; figures on investment; export and trade statements) 1960-1990s The object of the critique; its TFP table and other evidence are examined and found inadequate.
Bond (2004) African National Congress (1994), Reconstruction and Development Programme; ANC (1998) discussion document 'The State, Property Relations and Social Transformation'; ANC Political Education Unit (2002) 1994-2002 Contrasts the official stance on civil society with the party's instrumental treatment of it and its attacks on the 'ultraleft'.
Bond (2004) Department of Public Enterprises (2001), Speech by Minister Radebe at Workshop on the Service Delivery Framework, 30 November 2001 2001 Source for the arrears amnesty terms offered to Soweto residents.
Bond (2004) Johannesburg (2001), Budget 2001-2002: City Development Plan 2001/2002 2001-2002 Source for the racial breakdown of the city's population.
Bond (2004) Johannesburg (2002), Joburg 2030 2002 Municipality's own claim that only 16% of households have sub-standard services and that services are not its greatest challenge.
Bond (2004) Ministry of Reconstruction and Development (1995), Urban Infrastructure Investment Framework, Pretoria, 23 March 1995 Source for the 'basic' services policy of communal standpipes, pit latrines and no electricity.
Carrillo et al. (2023b) Human Sciences Research Council (2007), Using the 2001 Census published 2007 (on 1991 census coverage) Cited for the severe incomplete coverage of the 1991 census in the homelands, justifying use of 1980 as the benchmark.
Christopher (1994a) South Africa: Department of Foreign Affairs List 1994b late 1994 Gives the post-election count of 69 resident high commissioners and ambassadors and the new African focus (Fig 7).
Christopher (1994a) South Africa: List of guests to President Mandela's inauguration, 10 May 1994 10 May 1994 Shows that over 130 governments were represented at the inauguration.
Dubb (2012) Department of Trade and Industry, A discussion document on the review of the Sugar Act (2003?) c.2003 Source for the 1994 de-regulation measures and the features and reservations about SIA 2000 (notional price, flexible market shares, single channel export).
Dubb (2012) International Trade Administration Commission Report No. 308 (2009) 2009 Documents the flexible tariff / dollar reference price of $358 per ton.
Filitz (2012) Department of Minerals and Energy, Sustainable Development through Mining (2009) (SDM) initiative 2009 Treated as the object of critique: state sustainable-development policy that the paper argues disembeds mine-closure social costs from historical context.
George (2006) Adjudicator rulings and court cases (Sentrachem, Pepkor Retirement Fund v FSB, CAF) 1998–2002 Illustrative cases showing surplus manipulation and FSB/regulatory responses.
George (2006) National Treasury, 'Retirement fund reform' discussion paper, December 2004 2004 Supplies the claim that 1980s–90s saw a dramatic transfer from defined benefit to defined contribution, plus umbrella fund growth and reform proposals.
George (2006) Official commissions and committees on retirement funding (Mouton 1992, Katz 1995, Smith 1995, NRCF 1997, Taylor 2002) 1992–2002 Cited as background assessments of retirement funding and the regulatory gap; Mouton referred to by respondents as prompting the adjudicator.
Gidlow (2008) Task Group Report for the National Treasury, Competition in South African banking, April 2004 2001-2004 Supplies bank counts for 2001 and 2003 and the finding that the big four behaved as a complex monopoly with high returns on equity.
Harington et al. (2004) TEBA presentation to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Mineral and Energy Affairs, 5 Oct. 1994 1994 Source for the history and role of recruitment organisations (NRC, WNLA, TEBA).
Harris (2002) November 1995 Cabinet moratorium on destruction of public records 1995 Illustrates distrust of SAS appraisal.
Hirschsohn (1996) National Peace Accord (September 1991) and King 1995 conference paper on ADR in South Africa 1991-1995 Establishes the codes of conduct and ADR use in peace committees and the repositioning of ADR under the 1995 LRA.
Hoffman and Todd (2000) Hoffman et al., 'Land degradation in South Africa' (unpublished report, NBI and PLAAS, 1999) 1996-1999 Underlying commissioned audit from which the paper draws its results, methodology and reliability checks.
Kynoch (2000) Satchwell Commission of Enquiry into Violence at No. 8 Shaft Vaal Reefs Mine, January 1995 1995 Source for the January 1995 Vaal Maseru bus dispute clashes involving Russians and NUM members.
Malherbe and Segal (2001a) King Report and Code of Corporate Practices and Conduct (1994) 1994 (update announced 2000) Examined and compared with the Cadbury Code to assess its strengths and its neglect of control-bloc governance and director independence.
Mariotti (2012a) NIDS survey documentation and weighting guidelines (SALDRU 2009) 2009 Sample weighting specification followed (without stratification) in regressions.
Obi (2006) AgriBEE Framework (Department of Agriculture 2004) and Swanepoel et al. (2004) evaluation of empowerment policies 2004 Establishes policy context requiring land values not be negatively affected and the proposals on state land, joint ventures and leasing.
Obi (2006) Department of Land Affairs / Department of Agriculture (2005) 'Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa: An Overview' (Land Summit document) 1994-2005 Source for land transfer figures (3.5 million ha to 168,000 households), restitution outcomes (Table 2.2) and land reform design.
Obi (2006) Katz Commission (1998) Eighth Interim Report, Land Tax Sub-Committee 1995-1998 Cited on the land tax and capital gains tax debate and the tax's potential effect on land prices.
Pankhurst (1996) Government of Namibia, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, 'The Current Land Tenure System in the Commercial Districts of Namibia' (paper for NEPRU, 1991) 1991 Cited for larger herders securing individual land access in Hereroland, Ovambo and Kavango.
Perkins et al. (2005a) Department of Transport (1998), Moving South Africa: a transport strategy for 2020 (draft) 1998 Evidence on investment shortfalls in roads and ports, truck overloading, and port customer dissatisfaction from interviews.
Phakathi (2012) Leon Commission Report 1995: Commission of inquiry into safety and health in the mining industry 1995 Establishes that the commission was set up under NUM pressure and that its recommendations led to the Mine Health and Safety Act of 1996, including the right to refuse dangerous work.
Roberts (2009) Department of Labour (2002) study of farm worker conditions and minimum wages; Department of Labour 2001 investigation 2001-2002 Provides evidence on farm worker poverty and wages prior to the sectoral determination, motivating the minimum wage.
Roberts (2009) Restructuring the South African Labour Market: Report of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Labour Market Policy (Lewis et al. 1996) 1996 Source for employers' and business organisations' positions on minimum wages and for job-loss and wage-structure context.
Seekings (2010) ANC (1994) Reconstruction and Development Programme; 1996 Constitution; Government reviews (South Africa 2003, 2007) 1994-2007 Documents the stated post-1994 policy commitments to poverty reduction and the government's own assessment of progress.
Stott (2008) Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs and Mineral and Energy Policy Centre (Nov 1995) Discussion Document on a Minerals and Mining Policy for South Africa 1994-1995 Main source for the 1995 multi-stakeholder policy negotiations, industry and ANC positions, and mineral rights ownership debates.
Stott (2008) Graduate School of Business UCT (2000) The South African Mining Industry in the 21st Century 2000 Used on the group system, mining houses' restructuring, isolation under apartheid and the economic importance of mining.
Van Vuuren (2006) Davis expert panel report on Bankorp (2002) and Heath SIU investigation (as reported) 2002 Findings that the Reserve Bank exceeded its authority in assisting Bankorp.
Van Vuuren (2006) Kumleben Commission of Enquiry into the Alleged Smuggling of, and Illegal Trade in, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn in South Africa (1996) 1996 Establishes SADF involvement in ivory trade through front company Frama Inter-Trading.
Van Vuuren (2006) Varney, The role of the former state in political violence: Operation Marion case study (Investigation Task Board report, March 1997), incl. SSC sub-committee minutes 15 January 1986 1986-1997 Source for covert funding of IFP and the R19.5m 1986/87 budget.
Vink and Kirsten (2001) Industrial Development Corporation, Trade for growth (IDC, 1997) 1997 Cited for the persistence of declining manufacturing employment, used to argue about labour-law rigidities.
Vink et al. (2012) Oettle et al. (1998), Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in South Africa 1998 Source of the assessment of BATAT's aims and why it failed.
Williams (1996) ANC, Reconstruction and Development Programme (1994); RDP White Paper; DLA 'Draft Land Policy Principles' (1995); Land Reform Pilot Programme overview (1994) 1994-1995 Shows adoption of the 30% target and later scaling back to R15,000 grants; RDP budget used to gauge affordability.
Williams (1996) Agricultural Marketing Policy Evaluation Committee (Basson Committee), Reports 1 and 2 (1994) 1994 Shows the committee's partial acceptance of tariffs over import controls while retaining marketing boards.
Wittenberg (2003a) Budget Review 2003 (provincial equitable share formula description) 2003 Supplies the components and weights of the provincial equitable share formula and the statement that allocations are indicative rather than earmarked.
Wittenberg (2003a) National Treasury 1998, The introduction of an equitable share of nationally raised revenue for local government 1998, with 2003/04 allocations Describes the local government equitable share formula (S-grant, I-grant, free basic services, nodal, R293, guarantee) and the percentage weights of each component in 2003.