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Daily Dispatch (East London)

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Daily Dispatch
Coverage 1937-1981
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Johnson (1982) Daily Dispatch articles on Umtata and Transkei education (6/9/76; 10/15/76; 12/16/77; 1/27/78; 4/13/77; 8/16/78; 10/6/78) 1976-1978 Documents the segregated, leased-back white schools, the white schools' achievements, unfree and non-compulsory African schooling, the syllabus and exam arrangements, and the African education secretary's speech.
Lemon (1982) Daily Dispatch (East London), 1981 issues January-April 1981 Reports of nomination contests, ministerial and party leaders' speeches, and campaign statements that support the account of each party's campaign.
Minkley (1990) Daily Dispatch, East London (newspaper coverage, 1937, 1946, 1950s incl. Feb 1951, Dec 1956, Sept 1955, June 1956) 1937; 1946-1956 Documents the 1946 dock strike chronology, worker voices and local events of the 1950s (job-leaving reasons, women, repression).
Wotshela (2004) Daily Dispatch (East London), 13 January 1977; Eastern Province Herald, 5 May 1982 1977, 1982 The Daily Dispatch gives the camp death toll; the Herald gives a white farmer's estimate of the land an African farmer needs.