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Works using it 17

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 8
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 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
Carrillo et al. (2023a) High-resolution GIS map of South Africa during the apartheid era Apartheid era Matches 1996 Magisterial Districts to former homelands using a 60 percent territorial overlap rule.
Crush (1984) Western's reconstruction of Cape Town's changing residential geography under the Group Areas Act (maps, diagrams, comparison with an 'ideal' Group Areas city) 1948 to c. 1970s Shows how the Group Areas Act refashioned the city's geography, compared with an 'ideal' Group Areas city.
Crush (1993) Chamber of Mines Figure 1 map of prohibited recruiting zones and high/low mine labour potential, 1970 1970-1974 Maps districts closed to mine recruiting and areas of high labour potential.
Delius and Schirmer (2012) Bokoni archaeological research: aerial photographs and stone-walled terrace site surveys (Mpumalanga escarpment) 1930s to 2012; settlement c.1500s-1820s Establishes the extent and scale of the terraced intensive farming settlement and the evidence for decentralised, stratified homesteads.
Dinkelman (2012) Statistics South Africa GIS boundary data, 1996 and 2001 Census district councils 1996 and 2001 boundaries Defines the district unit of analysis and is overlaid with homeland maps to identify former homeland districts.
Fox and Lemon (2000) IEC voting district maps and GIS covers (approx. 14,000 voting districts) and IEC website 1999 Context for how voting districts were spatially defined; the authors note that the GIS spatial information itself was not released, so they had to match districts to magisterial boundaries.
Fox and Lemon (2000) Magisterial district classification into CLPA, homelands and rest of South Africa (apartheid regional divisions, Figure 3) apartheid-era boundaries applied to 1999 data Voting districts were matched to magisterial districts and assigned to CLPA, ten homelands or remainder to test the legacy of apartheid boundaries in voting.
Hallett (1984) Black Sash 1977 map of forced removals 1977 (updated) Mentioned as a prior graphic overview of removals, with an updated version in the pocket of SPP Vol 1.
Hoffman and Todd (2000) Environmental Potential Atlas for South Africa (ENPAT) database 1997 Source for the runoff and erodibility variables.
Hoffman and Todd (2000) GIS data sets of the Computing Centre for Water Research; Schulze et al., South African Atlas of Agrohydrology and Climatology (1997) 1997 publication Supplies the biophysical and climatic variables (altitude, slope, rainfall, temperature, etc.) averaged per district.
Kerby (2014) Bureau for Economic Research re Bantu Development (1976) archival maps of homeland boundaries 1976 boundaries (map circa 1955) Source for digitised map of Bantustan boundaries (Map 1).
Kerby (2016a) Railway and harbour data: South African Railways and Harbour Gazette (1980) and Annual Reports, railway maps (Transnet archive), GIS path-distance calculations 1978-1991 Used to compute railway distance and subsidised container costs from each zone to ports.
Manona (1984) Map 2 of farm schools in the study area (author's map) c.1983 Used to show that farm schools are few and far apart.
McCarthy (2000a) Author-constructed GIS maps of GGP growth by magisterial district (Figures 3-7) 1960s-2000s Maps of past growth rates and the projected scenario are compared visually to argue the continuity of the growth pattern.
Roberts (2009) Bekker (2009) map and land-use data for Makana municipality; Development Bank of Southern Africa (2004) socio-economic profile 2001-2009 Land area under protected areas (32%), commercial agricultural area and Makana unemployment rate (49.2% in 2001).
Schmidt (1975) Black Homelands - Consolidation Proposals, 1973 (Fig. 2 map) 1973 Map of the proposed consolidation of the Homelands, supporting the claim that the government is creating new cores in the black areas.
Smith (1972) Map 'Southern Transvaal Land Use 1973', Urban and Regional Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand 1973 Source for Figure 2, which illustrates racially segregated residential areas and buffer zones in the Pretoria area.
Venter (1979) Census maps (1970) showing language distribution in Griqualand East 1970 Used to show that most blacks in the area are Xhosa-speaking and only a few are Zulu.
Wotshela (2012) Map: Ciskei Magisterial Districts and the Border Region by 1981 1981 Shows the redesigned magisterial districts to orient the reader.