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Business Day

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Business Day, Johannesburg
Coverage 1984-1999
Works using it 10

Debates

Debate Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 5
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 3
Resistance and liberation movements 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crush (1989a) Business Day newspaper articles (3 March 1987; 23 September 1987) 1987 Source for Goldfields and Gencor management statements on hostel administration and talks with the NUM.
Crush (1989b) Business Day newspaper articles (3 March 1987; 23 September 1987) 1987 Used for Goldfields and Gencor spokesmen's statements on hostel administration and union talks, and for Anglo's family survey.
Davies and Head (1995) Business Day, 31.8.1994 and 7.10.1994 1994 Reports Home Affairs and police estimates of three to eight million illegal migrants.
Lemon (1995) Business Day, Johannesburg, 15 March 1990 1990 Quotes F.W. de Klerk, as Minister of National Education, on providing better education with fewer resources.
Maree (1993a) Business Day 30.10.92 on launch of National Economic Forum October 1992 Describes NEF participants and agenda at launch.
Morris (1987) Business Day, 26 September 1985 1985 Reports Wilkens saying the removal would affect only a few dozen families, which the author uses as evidence of state misinformation.
Padayachee (1988) Business Day (25 March 1987; 27 March 1987) 1987 Source for the 1987 debt standstill agreement terms and the foreign debt total of $23 billion.
Strauss (1993) Business Day (Johannesburg), March 1992 March 1992 Source for business-press forecasts of the economic effects of a 'Yes' or 'No' result and for Japanese business warnings.
Swilling (1985a) Business Day (Johannesburg), 21 Aug. 1985 1985 Source for the 56% township unemployment figure.
Swilling (1985b) Business Day, 21 Aug 1985 (unemployment rate) 1985 Source of the 56% township unemployment figure.