Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act 1967 / Environment Planning Act

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	South African Parliament
Coverage	1967-1986
Works using it	10

Debates

Debate	Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	7
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bekker and Coetzee (1980)	Environmental Planning Act, 1967, section 3	1967	Freezing of industrialists' black labour components in Cape Town and the Boland.
Bell (1986)	Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act No. 88 of 1967	1967	Cited as a direct control on the Black:White labour ratio in metropolitan manufacturing, tested as a cause of deconcentration.
Bell and Padayachee (1984)	Physical Planning Act, Section 3 (Black labour controls in metropolitan areas)	1970s	Cited in a footnote as a possible cause of rising capital intensity, with no supporting data.
Katzen (1974)	Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act No. 88 of 1967	1967	The Act gave the Minister of Planning power to control African employment in factories in controlled areas, and its effects are assessed in Chapter 10.
Kerby (2016a)	Physical Planning and Utilisation of Resources Act (1968/1975) and other legislation (Land Act 1913, Group Areas Act, Population Registration Act)	1913-1975	Documents the 'push' labour-ratio controls on urban firms and the legal framework of segregation and Chinese status.
McCarthy (1982)	Environmental Planning Act / Physical Planning Act, section 3	1960s-1982	Describes the 'stick' element of traditional decentralization policy (ministerial approval for new factories and extensions) and its proposed replacement.
Pickles (1988a)	Physical Planning Act, 1967 (section 2) and the 1986 White Paper and parliamentary reform measures repealing 34 laws and proclamations on influx control	1967, 1986	Cited for controls on metropolitan (PWV) industrial growth and for the 1986 repeal of influx control laws and Pass Laws.
Spandau (1972)	Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act, No. 88 of 1967, Sec. 3(1)	1967	Cited as an instrument pressing employers to raise Bantu productivity, an exception to Pursell's claim.
Todes and Watson (1984)	Physical Planning and Utilisation of Resources Act, Section 3 refusals 1968-1983 (via Financial Mail)	1968-1983	Cited for 146 000 potential jobs lost in metropolitan areas through refusals under the Act.
Tomlinson and Addleson (1986)	Environment Planning Act (formerly Physical Planning Act 1967), Sections 2 and 3	1967 onwards	Policy instrument restricting black labour-intensive industry in the PWV, offered as a possible cause of the decentralization trend.