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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Financial Mail, Johannesburg
Coverage 1967-2002
Works using it 30

Debates

Debate Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 8
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 8
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 5
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 5
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 5
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 3
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 3
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1987) Financial Mail 6/4/84 chart of Iscor capital expenditure 1964-1984 1964-1984 Source for chart of Iscor capex in the steel chapter.
Africa (1976) Financial Mail, 18 December 1970; 4 April 1975 (and 13 Oct 1972 in bibliography) 1969–1975 Source for the farm population table (Table 12), the S.A.A.U. farm labour survey, the labour shortage, housing conditions and wages.
Baldwin (1975) Financial Mail, Johannesburg, 16 March 1973 (Black Spots removals figure) 1948-1973 Gives a later figure for Black Spot removals since 1948 (175,788 removed, 69,000 still to be removed).
Baldwin (1975) Financial Mail, Johannesburg, 2 March 1973 (Group Areas removals) 1950s-1973 Source for the numbers of Coloured, Asian, White and Chinese people removed or to be removed under the Group Areas Act (593,325 total, at five persons per family).
Cobbe (1986) Financial Mail, 20 May 1983 (January 1983 average cash wages for blacks in gold mines) 1983 Wage levels underlie the M350 million earnings estimate for 100,000 miners.
Crush (1992) Financial Mail, 11 July 1980, p. 132 1980 Source for the late 1970s introduction of bar-coded ID cards to track workers.
Davies (1979a) Financial Mail articles (2 June 1978, 28 July 1978, 14 April 1978, 28 April 1978, and 1976-77 issues) 1976-1978 Documents recent job reservation scrapping, closed shop agreement abolition, union reactions, and bourgeois statements on free enterprise and reform.
Davies (1979b) Financial Mail (various issues 1976-1978) 1976-1978 Reports of job reservation repeal, closed shop agreements, Wiehahn expectations, bourgeois statements and union reactions.
Freund (1987a) Financial Mail, 26 December 1986 (prizes and brickbats of the year) 26 December 1986 Cited to show business praised General Motors for crushing union resistance, against Lipton's view of business support for unions.
Freund (1987b) Financial Mail, 1986 (praise of General Motors for crushing union resistance to disinvestment plans) 1986 Anecdotal evidence that business does not generally prefer strong unions.
Giliomee (2009) Financial Mail Supplement, 14 July 1967 1951-1960s Source for the white employment figure in 1951 and the roughly 36,000 white jobs taken over by non-whites in the 1950s.
Greenberg (1987) J Lange, Financial Mail, 12 October 1979 (quoted in Savage, 1983) 1979 Source of the estimate that illegal work in Johannesburg, even with jail time, raises a Lebowa African's income by 255 percent.
Hackland (1980) Financial Mail, 22 April 1977 (cited in Williams) 1976-1977 Evidence that large-company profits rose during the crisis.
Hirsch (1989) Financial Mail (various issues 1985-1988) 1985-1988 Reports on Nedbank's borrowing, Reserve Bank forward-rate policy, gold price and rand movements, and the Eskom loan search.
Horner and Kooy (1980a) Financial Mail, 6 June 1979 1979 Source for the 1979 minimum wage rate in Table 5.
Kaplan (1983) Financial Mail Special Survey Top Companies, 8 May 1981; Financial Mail 'Inside the Power House' (4 July 1969) and 19 October 1979 1969-1981 Supports Anglo's rank among the largest companies, its holding-company structure, Oppenheimer's views on exchange control, and Charter's restructuring.
Kaplan (1989) Financial Mail, 27 Sept. 1968 (industry survey) 1968 Source for the white share of the labour force in 1968 (55 per cent) and claimed local content of 50-90 per cent by the end of the first agreement.
Maree (1985) Financial Mail (various issues 1984-1985) April 1984 - January 1985 Source for NUM membership and agreements, the September 1984 mine strike, SAAWU's split, and the November 1984 stayaway.
Nishiura (2006) "Top Company 100," Financial Mail, 1979, 1989, 1994, 1999 editions 1978, 1988, 1993, 1998 (rankings); manufacturing also 1968 Source for Table 6 (top ten companies by asset base) and Table 7 (top ten manufacturing firms), used to show the rise of life insurers and group control of manufacturing.
Nishiura (n.d.) "Top Company 100," Financial Mail, 1979, 1989, 1994, 1999 editions 1978, 1988, 1993, 1998 Source for the top-ten company rankings by assets (Table 6) and the top-ten manufacturing firms (Table 7), used to trace group ownership over time.
Padayachee (1988) Financial Mail (various issues 1982-1985) 1982-1985 Source for Reserve Bank policies, IMF loan reception, exchange control abolition, Nedbank's borrowing practice, and perceptions of South Africa's prospects.
Spence (1981a) The Financial Mail, 'Who calls the tune now?', 8 May 1981 8 May 1981 Source of the Afrikaner journalist's remark that verligtheid should not be confused with liberalism.
Spence (1981b) 'Who calls the tune now?', The Financial Mail, 8 May 1981 May 1981 Supports the point that verligte Afrikaner opinion should not be confused with liberalism.
Spence (1981c) The Financial Mail, 'Who calls the tune now?', 8 May 1981 May 1981 Cited for an Afrikaner journalist's remark that verligtheid should not be confused with liberalism.
Strauss (1993) Financial Mail (Johannesburg), 19 February 1993 interview and editorial February 1993 Source for de Klerk's reflections on the referendum principles and the commentary on negotiating strength after the vote.
Todes and Watson (1984) Financial Mail articles ('Diesel Engines. Where's the Magic Formula', 18 Feb 1983; 'Physical Planning Act. Maintaining Job Destruction', 10 Feb 1984) 1983-1984 Details on the single propulsive industry (IDC-established diesel engines) and on job losses under the Physical Planning Act.
Torchia (1988) Financial Mail (Johannesburg), various issues 1972-1978, 1985-1986 1972-1986 Cited for business opinion on productivity, influx control, works committees, the Durban strikes, post-Soweto politics and business-government relations.
Webster (1984) Financial Mail, 23 Dec 1983 (Hofmeyer, 'Barlow Rand and FOSATU') and Umbiko we MAWU, Vol 1 No 3 1983 Source for Rosholt's view of union demands as a threat to private enterprise and for union demands on pension funds.
West (1982) Financial Mail, 12 October 1979 (Dr Jan Lombard/Langenhoven estimate on homeland vs urban earnings) 1979 Supports the claim that illegal urban work is advantageous even with imprisonment.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) Financial Mail, 'Recruitment the Teba Way', Gold: A Survey, 19 July 1985 1985 Source for mid-1985 composition of the workforce by origin and return rates.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) Financial Mail, 'Recruitment the Teba Way', Gold: A Survey, 19 July 1985 1985 Source for mid-1985 recruitment shares by area (Lesotho 23.4%, Mozambique 10.9%, Transkei 32.6%) out of 436,000.