Wiehahn and Riekert Commissions (cited jointly)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Government of South Africa
Coverage	1977-1979
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
De Clercq (1979)	Wiehahn Commission and Riekert Commission (1977), Wiehahn Report	1977-1979	Interpreted as strategy to co-opt a black labour aristocracy and restore stability.
Mariotti (2010)	Riekert and Wiehahn Commissions (1979)	1979	Cited, via Feinstein, as having recommended abolition of job reservation, which the government accepted.
The Liberation Struggle in South... (n.d.)	Riekert Commission and Wiehahn Commission recommendations (1979)	1979	Used to record the reform recommendations on the job colour bar, Section 10 rights and African trade union recognition.
Webster (1984)	Wiehahn Commission and Riekert Commission reports	1977-1979	Used to show the state's strategy of incorporating African unions into the Industrial Council system and dividing workers by urban residence rights.