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Bantu/Black Labour Act 1964, Black Labour Regulations 1965 and related labour bureaux regulations

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Kind legislation gazette
Producer Government of South Africa
Coverage 1964-1978
Works using it 4

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Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bekker and Coetzee (1980) Black Labour Regulations, 1965 (GN R1892/1965), including the 1966 amendment 1965-66 Establishes the legal mechanism empowering labour officers to withhold black labour unless non-black labour was unavailable.
Chaskalson and Duncan (1984) Black Labour Act No. 67 of 1964 and Black Labour Regulations, 1965 (Chapter VIII etc.) 1964-1965 Describes the labour bureau, requisitioning and recruitment system that controls employment in prescribed areas.
Chaskalson and Duncan (1984) Regulations for Labour Bureaux at Bantu Authorities, Proclamation R74 of 1968 1968 Source for registration at fifteen, worker classification, record cards, contract limits and restrictions on women's contracts.
Crush (1993) Native Labour Regulation Act 1911 and Bantu Labour Regulations 1965 1911, 1965 Legal basis for the exclusion of private and mine recruiting from magisterial districts with white farms.
Frankel (1979) Bantu Laws Amendment Acts 1964 (Nos. 42 and 52), 1970 (No. 19), 1977 and 1978; Bantu Administration Act 1971; Bantu Labour Regulations 1968 and 1973 1964-1978 Documents endorsement-out, extension of officials' powers, increased penalties, travel documents and prescribed-area reduction.