Government Gazette (proclamations and government notices)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Government of South Africa
Coverage	1911-1990
Works using it	8

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Debates

Debate	Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Delius and Schirmer (2000)	Government Gazette, Proclamations 31 and 264 of 1939	1939	Establishes the betterment-area powers, culling and the 5 and 2.5 morgen arable allotments.
Ehlers (2007)	Government Gazette notices of liquidation and distribution accounts of deceased estates, 1937-1938 (as reported in ATC minutes)	1937-1938	Counts of advertised estate accounts (Standard Bank 78 rising to 122; Barclays 144) used as indirect evidence of growth in bank estate business.
Frankel (1979)	Government Gazette, 20 May 1977, Government Notice 867	1977	Cited for adjustments introducing aid centres and travel documents.
Horrell (1970)	Proclamation R231 of 5 September; Government Notice R 3669 of 31 October; Government Notice 3296 of 17 September	1969	Establish the Coloured Affairs administrative changes, delegated powers and Potgieter Commission terms of reference.
Moodie (1986)	Proclamation 1425 of August 1944	August 1944	Documents the ban on union meetings on mining ground that crippled AMWU recruitment.
Seekings (1990)	Government Gazette rent notices (GN 1,701, GG 6,613, 10 Aug 1979; GN 1,408, GG 7,118, 11 Jul 1980; GN 605-19, GG 7,501, 27 Mar 1981)	1979-1981	Supports the claim that rents were broadly the same across East Rand townships despite uneven services.
Union of South Africa, Government Printer (1958)	Insolvency and estate notices (sequestrations, liquidations, executors' notices)	March 1958	Routine notices of sequestrated estates and deceased estates.
Venter (1979)	South African Government Gazette proclamation, 24 March 1978 (transfer of Matatiele and Mount Currie to Natal)	1978	Proclamation of the transfer of the disputed districts to Natal is cited as the trigger of the dispute.