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McGregor's Who Owns Whom

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Kind company records or reports
Producer McGregor
Coverage 1980-2006
Works using it 3

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Share Prices & Company Boards.

Debates

Debate Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Nishiura (2006) McGregor ed., McGregor's Who Owns Whom, 1992 (Rembrandt Group holding structure 1991) 1991 Source for Figure 2 showing the multistory holding company shareholding chain of the Rembrandt Group, used to show how families keep control.
Nishiura (2006) Who Owns Whom / McGregor's Who Owns Whom in South Africa 2006 (JSE market capitalization control, 1983-2005) 1983-2005 Figure 1 shows the share of JSE market capitalization controlled by the major business groups, supporting the claim of over 80% control by six groups in 1985-1995.
Nishiura (n.d.) McGregor's Who Owns Whom 1992 (Rembrandt Group holding structure, 1991) 1991 Supplies the cross-shareholding percentages in Figure 2 used to illustrate how a multistory holding company let the founding families keep control.
Nishiura (n.d.) Who Owns Whom / McGregor's Who Owns Whom in South Africa 2006 (JSE market capitalization control by business group, 1983-2005) 1983-2005 Shows the six major groups held over 80% of JSE market capitalization in 1985-1995, establishing the scale of group concentration.
Sitas et al. (1984) G. McGregor, Who Owns Whom (1980) and Stanwix 1980 Source for the corporate ownership linkages of Natal's major firms by sector.