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Currency and banking legislation

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Kind legislation gazette
Producer Colonial/Union/RSA Parliament
Coverage 1861-1992
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 5
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Arndt (1928) Union and colonial banking statutes (Cape Acts 1861-1891, Natal Laws 1864/1881, O.F.S. Ordinances, Transvaal Laws 1892-93, Union Acts 1914, 1917, 1920, 1923) 1861-1923 Traces the content of banking and note-issue legislation by province and the Union Acts.
Breckenridge (1995) Currency and Banking Act 1920 and Budget Statements 1933-4 1920; 1933 Frames the 1920 withdrawal of gold, the Pretoria mint, and post-1933 taxation of mining profits.
Gidlow (2008) Banks Act of 1972 1972 Legislation restricting foreign bank shareholding and branches, central to the author's critique of policy.
Gidlow (2008) Deposit Taking Institutions Act of 1992 1992 Shows the removal of the 1972 shareholding restrictions on foreign banks.
Mazanderani (2012) Currency and Banking Act of 1920 1920 Shows the legal step making notes inconvertible and creating the Reserve Bank, attributed to bank lobbying.
Mazanderani (2012) Mint Act 1919 1919 Cited (via Ally 1994) for the establishment of the Pretoria Mint.
Schneider (2000) 1942 banking legislation (quoted via Nattrass 1981, 250) 1942 Shows capital-flow manipulation and liquidity requirements that increased domestic funds for industrial expansion.
Verhoef (n.d.) Banks Acts: Cape Bank Act 1891, Currency and Banking Act 1920, Banks Act No 38 of 1942, Banks Act 1965, Banks Act amendments 1972 1891-1972 Traces regulatory framework in which the cartel operated and the categorisation of banks.
Westerfield (1929) South African currency and banking legislation: Currency Act 1914, Banks Act 1917, Currency and Banking Act 1920 and its 1923 amendment 1914-1923 Used to trace new features in bank legislation after Union in 1910.