United Nations resolutions and reports¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	United Nations
Coverage	1953-2005
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Census, race classification and demographic data	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Abedian (1982)	United Nations System of National Accounts 1953 and 1968; UN document ST/ESA/STAT 77 (1975)	1953-1975	Methodological standard for classification, dualism treatment and own-account construction valuation.
Christopher (2009a)	UN Special Rapporteur report, Mission to South Africa (2005)	2005	Quoted for the claim that official statistics do not reflect indigenous peoples and still follow apartheid typologies.
Christopher (2009b)	UN Special Rapporteur report, Mission to South Africa (2005)	2005	Quoted to show that census categories still follow the apartheid typology and ignore indigenous peoples.
Hepple (2006)	UN Resolution of 1963 inviting Member States to provide for defence of persons charged under apartheid laws	1963	Mentioned as the trigger for the formation of IDAF in 1964 as the recognised channel for contributions.
Padayachee (1988)	UN study on South Africa's IMF loan application	1982	Used to argue the IMF loan signalled support for the status quo to the financial community.
Steward (2004b)	UN Security Council Resolutions 432 and 435 and the Secretary-General's implementation plan	1976-1978	Used to narrate the Namibia negotiations and why South Africa lost confidence in the UN process.