Marketing Act 1937/1968 and Marketing of Agricultural Products Act 1996

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Parliament of South Africa
Coverage	1925-1998
Works using it	8

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	7
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	3
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012)	Government Marketing Act 1937 and related legislation (1930 wheat import Act, 1931 meal and flour Act, Co-operatives Amendment Act 1993, Competition Act 1998, 1996 Marketing Act)	1930-1998	Establish the regulatory framework and its dismantling.
Brits (1969)	Co-operative Societies Act No. 28 of 1922; Transvaal Act No. 14 of 1908; Mealie Control Act No. 39 of 1931; Act No. 59 of 1935; Marketing Act of 1937	1908-1937	Establishes the legal framework of co-operative marketing, export quotas and the Mealie Industry Control Board.
Davies et al. (1976)	Marketing Act 1937	1937	Example of state powers benefiting agriculture and the reaction of Mines and Industry.
Kirsten et al. (2007)	Marketing Act 1937/1968 and Marketing of Agricultural Products Act No. 47 of 1996; Land Acts; Water Act No. 36 of 1996; Agricultural Labour Act 147 of 1993	1912-1998	Describes the institutional framework of control boards, land segregation and later deregulation that defines the policy periods.
Lamont (1931)	Act No. 38 of 1925, Section 17 (compulsory single-channel sale of maize)	1925	Legal basis for the proposed compulsory co-operative marketing discussed in Chapters II and IV.
Vink (2012)	Marketing Act (Act 27 of 1937), consolidated Marketing Act (Act 59 of 1968) and Marketing of Agricultural Products Act (Act 47 of 1996)	1937-1996	Provides the institutional framework (enabling powers, boards, schemes) whose long-term consequences are assessed.
Vink and Kirsten (2001)	Marketing of Agricultural Products Act No 47 of 1997	1997	Cited as the legislative basis of agricultural marketing deregulation.
Vink et al. (2012)	Marketing Act 1937 (consolidated 1968, abolished 1997) and Maize/Winter Grain schemes	1937-1997	Used to explain pan-territorial, pan-seasonal pricing and its spatial consequences for commercial farming.