Apartheid security legislation and emergency proclamations¶

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Debate	Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	4
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Gould (1981)	Internal Security Act, Suppression of Communism Act, Terrorism Act, Riotous Assemblies Act, Fund Raising Act and Black Labour Relations Regulation Act	1950-1978	Establishes the legal tools for banning, detention, restriction of strikes, picketing and foreign funding of black unions.
Heintz (2000)	Apartheid security legislation (Suppression of Communism Act 1950, Riotous Assemblies Act 1956, Internal Security Act 1976, state of emergency 1985)	1950-1985	Context for the detention-without-trial variable in the unrest index.
Heintz (2002)	Apartheid security legislation: Suppression of Communism Act (1950), Riotous Assemblies Act (1956), Internal Security Act (1976), state of emergency provisions	1950-1980s	Defines the laws under which detentions without trial counted in the instability index were held.
Stemmet (2002)	Government Gazette: Internal Security Act 1982 (No. 74, vol. 204, no. 8232) and 1986/1987 emergency proclamations	1982-1987	Used to describe powers of the security forces under the ISA and the state of emergency regulations.
The Liberation Struggle in South... (n.d.)	General Laws Amendment Act, 1963	1963	Dates the legal introduction of detention without trial.
Washington Office on Africa (1985)	Public Security Act of 1953, Section 3 (emergency powers)	1953; invoked July 1985	Supplies the legal basis for the July 1985 emergency declaration and the police powers, duration limit and penalties the factsheet describes.