Bantu Investment Corporation annual reports and files

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	Bantu Investment Corporation
Coverage	1960-1970
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Best (1971)	Bantu Investment Corporation of South Africa, Annual Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 31st March 1968	1960-1968	Source for BIC loan numbers and amounts and their sectoral distribution.
Best (1971)	Unpublished BIC and Tswana Territorial Authority reports and field observations (Table 3: business establishments in five new Tswana towns)	August 1969	Documents the small tertiary businesses, population and housing in the satellite Bantu townships.
Best (1971)	Unpublished data in files of the Bantu Investment Corporation, Pretoria, and field investigation (Table 2)	1969	Establishes the scarcity of non-agricultural employment and establishments in the Tswana homeland.
Best (1971)	Unpublished reports in the files of the B.I.C., Pretoria (agency-basis investment terms)	c. 1968-1969	Source for conditions on White investors under agency-basis industry.
Horrell et al. (1972)	Annual Reports of the Bantu Investment Corporation and Xhosa Development Corporation for year ended 31 March 1970	1969-70	Details loans, enterprises and employment in homeland commerce and industry.