President's Council reports on urbanisation and constitutional affairs

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	President's Council
Coverage	1985-1989
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	3
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (1990)	Report of the Committee for Constitutional Affairs of the President's Council, P.C. 4-1987, and 1989 Parliamentary Debates	1987-1989	Cited for policy reformulation, 'free settlement' areas and the new 'non-ethnic' group.
Hindson (1987)	Presidents' Council report, An Urbanisation Strategy for the Republic of South Africa (1985)	1985	Cited to show that the planned-urbanisation policy of Up Against the Fences was adopted by government and later legislated in 1986.
Pickles (1988a)	White Paper on Urbanization: Report of the President's Council, 1985	1985	Used to show official recognition of urban-homeland functional interrelationship and the call to replace influx control with 'orderly urbanisation'.
Pickles (1988b)	White Paper on Urbanization: Report of the President's Council, 1985	1985	Shows official recognition of the functional link between urban areas and homelands, and the call to replace influx control with orderly urbanisation.