President's Council reports¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	President's Council
Coverage	1981-1989
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kraak (1995)	President's Council (1989) Report of the Committee for Economic Affairs on a Strategy and Action Plan to Improve Productivity	1989	Quoted to show state emphasis on promoting free-market values and work ethic among black workers.
Savage (1986)	Report of the Committee for Constitutional Affairs of the President's Council, 3/1985, An Urbanisation Strategy for South Africa	1985	Recommendation to abolish influx control, and its admission that arrests rose after 1978.
Spence (1981a)	Proposals of the President's Council (District Six and Pageview recommendation, September 1981) and government rejection	September 1981	Illustrates the limits of reform: the Council's modest recommendation was rejected by the government.
Spence (1981b)	President's Council recommendations (September 1981) on District Six and Pageview and the government's rejection	September 1981	Shows that even modest proposed Group Areas reversals were rejected by government, evidencing the limits of reform.
Spence (1981c)	Recommendations of the President's Council (District Six and Pageview proposals, September 1981) and government rejection	September 1981	Used as evidence that even modest Group Areas reform proposals were rejected by the government.