Business and labour submissions to the TRC business hearings

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	interviews oral history
Producer	Corporations, executives
Coverage	1997-1998
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Nattrass (1999a)	Submissions by corporate executives and business commentators (A. Rosholt, A. Rupert, A. Bernstein, C. Simkins)	1997	Rupert's Verwoerd correspondence and Bernstein's and Simkins' arguments illustrate business self-defence positions.
Nattrass (1999b)	Submissions by corporate executives (A. Rosholt, A. Rupert, A. Bernstein) to the TRC	October 1997	Rupert's correspondence with Verwoerd on the colour bar and Bernstein's argument that business had no moral role beyond growth illustrate business positions.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reparation and Rehab... (1998)	Business and labour submissions and hearings before the TRC (including the Anglo American submission and the Chamber of Mines submission)	1997-1998	Used for business self-justifications (Anglo American's housing and union-recognition claims) and for admissions such as the mines' instigation of tribalism.