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Post-1994 statutes (mining, environment, local government, etc.)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind legislation gazette
Producer Parliament of South Africa
Coverage 1996-2004
Works using it 8

Debates

Debate Works
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Resistance and liberation movements 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
Beall et al. (2005) Municipal Structures Act (Act No. 117 of 1998) 1998 Shows the limited consultative, observer role of traditional authorities on municipal councils.
Beall et al. (2005) Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act (2004) and Communal Land Rights Act No. 11 of 2004 2004 Shows that traditional councils were entrenched and given land allocation powers.
Lodge (1998) Government Gazette: Draft White Paper on Transformation of the Public Service (1995); Gazette No. 16943 (1996); Gazette No. 17928 (1997) 1995-1997 Documents new management policy and tendering reform context.
Lodge (1998) Housing Amendment Act of 1996 1996 Illustrates delegation of authority to local government and possible weakened controls.
Malherbe and Segal (2001a) Insider Trading Act (1998) and preliminary Insider Trading Directorate outcomes 1998-2000 Used to claim that the Act succeeded, citing settlements, prosecutions and share-price reactions in the first months.
Malherbe and Segal (2001a) Mine Health and Safety Act 1996, National Environmental Management Act 1998 and the 1997 Constitutional Court ruling on director liability 1977-1998 Illustrates the expansion and testing of director and corporate liability.
McGrath et al. (2004b) Skills Development Act 1998 and Skills Development Levies Act 1999 1998-1999 Specify SETA functions, levy-grant split (80/20) and the National Skills Fund.
Phakathi (2012) Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) of 1996 1996 Presented as the legislative outcome of the Leon Commission that entrenched workers' rights in the post-apartheid mining regime.
Stott (2008) Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 (MPRDA) and the Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the Mining Industry (2002) and Scorecard 2002-2004 The legislative and charter provisions (custodianship, conversion of old-order rights, 15% and 26% black ownership targets) that the thesis assesses.
Venter et al. (2000) Minerals Act 50/51 of 1991 and Director: Mineral Development, Gauteng and Sasol Mining v SAVE (Appeal Court, case no 133/98, 12 March 1999) 1991-1999 Statute and judgment are the basis of the case narrative about licensing, public participation and environmental rights.
Venter et al. (2000) Mining and environmental legislation and regulations (Minerals Act 50 of 1991; National Water Act 36 of 1998; Water Services Act 108 of 1997; GN R801 of 1999; GN R991/R992; APPA; National Heritage Resources Act 25 of 1999; White Paper on a Mineral Policy 1998) 1956-2000 Statutory survey of obligations on mines establishes the legal impact of environmental legislation.
Venter et al. (2000) National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA), including sections 28-34 and Consultative National Environmental Policy (Connep) process 1998-1999 Provisions are assessed from the Chamber of Mines perspective as positive and negative for mining.
Wittenberg (2003a) Intergovernmental Fiscal Review 1999 and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Act of 1997 1997-1999 Source for the legal and consultative framework of fiscal decentralisation, the PFMA 1999 and personnel expenditure trends.