Post-1994 government green/white papers and policy documents

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Government of South Africa
Coverage	1994-2003
Works using it	8

Debates

Debate	Works
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	3
Education, Bantu Education and skills	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Beall et al. (2005)	White Paper on Local Government (March 1998), Ministry for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development	1998	Shows that traditional leaders were given a consultative developmental role under municipal authority.
Crush and McDonald (2001)	Draft Green Paper on International Migration (1997), White Paper, and 2001 Immigration Bill	1997-2001	Traces the policy-reform trajectory and the contradictions between the Green Paper, the White Paper and the Bill.
Devereux (2007)	South African policy documents: White Paper for Social Welfare 1997; Taylor Committee Report 2002	1997-2002	Used for post-1994 coverage and cost escalation and the Basic Income Grant proposal.
Fox and Lemon (2000)	Republic of South Africa (1997), Green Paper on Local Government	1997	Basis for classifying voting districts as rural, urban or metropolitan by type of local government structure (Transitional Rural/Local/Metropolitan Councils).
Lodge (1998)	Department of Welfare Annual Report 1996/1997 (RP 80/1997) and 1996 White Paper	1996-1997	Used for inherited fragmented pension administration, fraud and removal of dead claimants.
McGrath et al. (2004a)	DoL policy documents: Green Paper 1997, NSDS 2001, Skills Development Act 1998, Levies Act 1999, Synthesis/Implementation Reports 2002, Preliminary Annual Report 2001/2002	1996–2003	Basis for descriptions of SETAs, learnerships, levy-grant system and for measuring progress against NSDS success indicators.
McGrath et al. (2004a)	South African FET and HRD policy documents (DoE 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002; White Papers 1995, 1998; DoE & DoL 2001 HRDS; RSA 1995b Small Business White Paper)	1995–2002	Documentary policy analysis of skills for enterprise development and FET coherence.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	Department of Labour Green Paper on a Skills Development Strategy (1997) and draft 1996	1996-1997	Source for the design of the new skills institutions, learnerships, levy-grant, planning and SME provisions.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	DoE FET policy documents (NCFE report 1997, Green Paper 1998, White Paper 1998, FET Act, Strategy 1999, Landscape 2001, Tirisano 2002) and HRDS (DoE & DoL 2001)	1997-2002	Document analysis of how FET and SMME skills were treated across departments to assess policy coherence.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	White Paper on National Strategy for the Development and Promotion of Small Business (RSA 1995b)	1995	Used to analyse the DTI's SMME skills vision.
Venter et al. (2000)	Department of Land Affairs, White Paper on South African Land Policy (1997) and White Paper on Reconstruction and Development (1994)	1994-1997	Source of government land tenure policy principles and registration needs on which Pienaar's proposals build.
Venter et al. (2000)	Green Paper on Development and Planning 1999 and other post-1994 policy documents; Development Facilitation Act 67 of 1995; Physical Planning Act 125 of 1991; Less Formal Township Establishment Act 113 of 1991	1991-2000	Evidence for the characteristics and shortcomings of the pre- and post-1994 planning system.