Die Burger

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	Nasionale Pers
Coverage	1943-2002
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Giliomee (1995)	Die Burger, 31 March 1990 (De Klerk speech); Die Burger, 22 November 1991; Sunday Star, 17 March 1990	1990-1991	Source of quoted statements by De Klerk and negotiator Gerrit Viljoen on negotiation strategy and backward legitimacy.
Giliomee (2003)	Die Burger (1943, 1944 and later columns incl. 'Dawie')	1943-1951	Evidence for first press use of 'apartheid' in 1943 and for Die Burger's role as promoter of the policy.
Sharp and West (1984)	Die Burger, 5 July 1977	1977	Supplies the number of workers by race retrenched in 1977 to show fluctuations hidden by Table 1.
Strauss (1993)	Die Burger (Cape Town), editorials and reports, 1990-1992	1990-1992	Supplies editorial argument about sanctions, exports and the cost of a 'No' vote, and the C.P.'s planned ban on mixed marriages.