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Reynders Commission on the Export Trade (RP 69/72)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind commission or official report
Producer Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade
Coverage 1972
Works using it 6

Debates

Debate Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 6
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Davies (1979a) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa (Reynders Commission), Vol II (RP 69/72) 1972 Evidence that the state introduced measures to accelerate floating the colour bar after 1972.
Davies (1979b) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa (Reynders Commission), Vol II, RP 69/72 1972 Evidence of state measures in 1972 to accelerate floating of the colour bar and retrain whites.
Freund (2009) Reynders Commission report 1970s (date not given in text) Mentioned as the material through which Fine was drawn into studying the South African economic structure.
Moll (1991c) Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa (Reynders Commission, RP69/72) 1972 Quoted to show foreign-exchange shortage constrained growth, requiring either lower growth or more exports.
Moll (1991d) Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa (Reynders Commission, RP69/72) 1972 Quoted to show foreign exchange was a binding constraint on growth, tying slow exports to growth limits.
Torchia (1988) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa (R.P. 69/1972) 1972 Used for limits on export growth and for the finding that entrepreneurs' resistance to employing non-whites hindered growth.