Reynders Commission into the Export Trade, RP 69/1972, and follow-up¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Reynders Commission
Coverage	1969-1978
Works using it	4

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	4
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bell and Madula (2001)	Reynders Commission (1972), Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa, R.P. 69/1972	1969-1972	Cited as evidence that policy attention turned to export diversification in 1969-72 before the commodity boom overtook it.
Marais (1981)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa, RP 69/72	1972 report; covers 1939 onward	Used to date South Africa's entry into the agricultural-mining-manufacturing stage to 1939 and to support points on relaxed import replacement and sporadic exports.
McCarthy (1988)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Export Trade (Reynders Commission), RP 69/72	1972	Documents the official shift from import replacement to exports as the engine of growth.
McCarthy (1988)	Technical Committee of Inquiry into the Practicality of the Van Huyssteen Group Proposals, Export Incentives in the Republic of South Africa (1978)	1978	Shows the origin of the uniform Categories A to D export assistance system.
Moll (1991b)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Export Trade of the Republic of South Africa (Reynders Commission, RP69/72)	early 1970s	Quoted to show that foreign exchange shortage constrained growth in the 1950s-60s and that more exports were needed.