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Kind commission or official report
Producer United Nations
Coverage 1946-1994
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Anglin (1995) UN Secretary-General reports and Security Council documents on South Africa (S/24389, S/25004, S/1994/16, S/1994/717, S/1994/177, S/24456, etc.) 1992-1994 Principal documentary base for the mandates, numbers, budgets, deployment, coordination, and election-observation findings of UNOMSA and the other missions.
Carter (1958) United Nations General Assembly records and Commission reports (South West Africa, treatment of Indians, Commission on Racial Situation in South Africa) 1946-1955 Documents the United Nations debates, votes and reports on South West Africa, Indians and apartheid, and South African responses.
Davies and Head (1995) UN-PAAERD, 'Economic Crisis in Africa: Final Review of the Implementation of UN-PAAERD', 1991 1985-1991 Used for continental evidence on declining incomes, wages and social spending under structural adjustment.
Davies and Head (1995) UNHCR Maputo, 'Mission Report' (November 1993) and interviews with UNHCR officials (Mpyisi 25.11.93; Kapya 29.11.93) 1993 Establishes categories of Mozambicans in South Africa, the fourth being young male economic migrants, and border-crossing costs.
John (2000) UN Centre Against Apartheid bank loan studies (Klein 1982; Militz 1985) and Klein 1981 PCR Information 1972-1984 Establishes that British banks participated in more loans than any other country's banks, and ranks Barclays and Hill Samuel.