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Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 7
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 6
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 6
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 5
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 4
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 4
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 4
Resistance and liberation movements 4
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 3
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 3
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 3
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
Historiographical approaches 2
Data reliability and econometric method 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Living standards, health and social policy 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1987) Engineering News, 6 June 1986, Supplement Power Generation (international electricity prices, 1985/86) 1986 Comparison of average electricity prices to show Escom is cheap.
(organiser) et al. (2008) Pakistan newspaper reports and expert quotes (e.g. Dr Shahid Hasan Siddiqui) on debt, unemployment, GDP growth and World Bank/ADB lending 1970s-2007 Supplies unemployment and GDP-growth comparisons and the World Bank/ADB lending totals, apparently drawn from press sources.
Arndt (1928) Journal of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (B.J.) and Star, Friend, Economist and other newspapers/periodicals 1895-1928 Used for bank mergers, the Kaffir boom, Boer War banking, Mint debates and speeches.
Barber (1991) Focus on South Africa (Cape Town), July 1991 July 1991 Source of Yusuf Saloojee's remark on ANC relations with Renwick.
Barber (1991) Market South East (London) 5:1B (Jan. 1991) January 1991 Supports the claim that by 1989 nearly one-third of British companies previously active in Africa had left.
Barber (1991) SA Dialogue (Johannesburg) 3:6 (June 1991) June 1991 Cited for Makotho's comment on South Africa's inclusion in Africa, Hornby's trade-mission statement, and Montgomery's remark that the economy equals Maryland's.
Best (1971) The South African Financial Gazette, 24 January 1969, p. 8 (and 11 October 1968) 1968-1969 Source for the estimate of IDC annual investment in border areas and the decentralized share of metropolitan investment.
Bonner (1994) Published reviews of the History Workshop (Freund, Worger, Saunders, South African Historical Journal 24, 1991) 1991 Used as the basis for criticisms of the Workshop's academic output.
Budlender (1984) Science, 'Pesticide Office Demands New Safety Studies', Vol 221, p. 442; official pesticide poisoning figures 1983 Supports claims about laxity of pesticide testing and under-recording of poisonings.
Cobbe (1986) Parliamentary/official reports: LCU employment (Lesotho Weekly 30 December 1983) 1983 Shows the Labour Construction Unit employed only 863 labourers, indicating limited contingency capacity.
Crush (1992) TEBA/Mining Sun article 'TEBA's ID System is a Winner' (M. Mahlaba), Mining Sun, February 1991 1991 (describing 1908-1991) Supplies TEBA's estimate of 10.5 million dossiers dating from 1908, the manual-search burden, and the FILENET fingerprint laser-disc quotation from Colin Christie.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Times of Swaziland (Mbabane), 12 January, 1 February, 30 March 1978; 27 January 1982 1978; 1982 Reports on prostitution arrests and a hotel worker's letter on wages used to illustrate social costs and low pay.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Die Huisgenoot article, D.G. Steyn, 'Waarom Boere Uitraak', 2 March 1945 1945 Cited to show soil erosion being framed as a threat to the 'Afrikaner Nation'.
Devereux (2007) Newspapers: The Namibian (13 March 1998; 28 Feb 2001), New Era (28 July 1994), SAPA (27 Feb 2000) 1994-2001 Used for ministerial statements on pension freezes and means testing, the white pensioners' reaction, the tender scandal, and Manuel's comment on affordability.
Dinkelman and Mariotti (2014) Newspaper: The Observer-Reporter, 5 April 1974, '77 Persons Killed in Plane Crash' 1974 Documents the April 1974 WNLA plane crash that triggered the labor ban.
Engel (1999) S. A. Barometer, 27/03/1992 (1992 referendum results) 1992 Source of 1992 referendum result figures.
Fox and Lemon (2000) Party manifestos, campaign materials and press reports 1998-1999 Provides the description of party platforms and campaign strategies in the section on the contending parties.
Gibson (1988) Bernard Zylstra interview with Steve Biko, The Reform Journal (Michigan), December 1977 1977 Source for Biko's statements on the cultural depth of BC, integration, and 'Hegelian theory'.
Gibson (1988) News and Letters (Chicago), including interview with a Sowetan youth (27 March 1987) and Jongilizwe (Dec 1986) 1960-1987 Supplies testimony from BC youth and activists about AZASM and the need for theory.
Higginson (1992) Mansey, 'Strikes in South Africa', The Negro Worker, Dec 1934 1930-1932 Source for the strike counts, average strikers and working days lost from 1930 to 1932.
Higginson (1992) Ngonga (weekly journal, Katanga), 3 November 1934 1934 Quotes a former Union Minière operative on housing demands to show worker aspirations over reproduction.
Hirsch (1989) ICABA (International Confidential Anti-apartheid Bank Analysis?) bulletins, issues 3/1986, 4/1987, 5/1987-88, 6/1988 1986-1988 Used for parastatal borrowing, moratorium terms, credit rating decline, the 1987 agreement, and German/Swiss bank exposure.
Hyslop (1987) The World editorial, 26 September 1966 (quoted in TUATA) 1966 Used to show urban petty-bourgeois and teacher attitudes toward school boards.
Johnston (1899) Newspapers: Mauritius Gazette, The Times, New York Herald, Daily Telegraph, French press 1817-1898 Used for British claims over Madagascar, Stanley's sponsorship and French views on Abyssinia.
Lemon (1984c) Ministry of Indian Affairs statement 'Interprovincial movements of Indians', Fiat Lux, June-July 1975 1975 Source for exclusion of Indians from the Orange Free State and parts of northern Natal.
Maree (1993a) COSATU–Minister of Manpower accord of November 1992 and South African Labour News 1992 November 1992 Documents the accord extending labour rights to farm and domestic workers, and SAAU opposition.
Mazower (1990) The Farmer and Home Companion (FHC) 1946-1950 Quotations of farmer complaints about labour loss, dairy farming unpopularity, uniform contract proposals and calls for control.
McGrath and Simkins (1985) Frontline article (Helen Zille, July 1984) and Development Southern Africa review (Coetzee and van der Kooy) 1984 Quoted to illustrate the range of reception of Simkins's results.
Minter (1986) Standard Bank Review (Johannesburg), November 1985 1985 Quoted to show South Africa's economy is small, open and dependent on foreign trade and confidence.
Mohamed and Finnoff (2004) Mbeki (2003) ANC Today column 5-11 December 2003 Cited as insight into tension between business and the ANC government over empowerment.
Morrell (1988) Middelburg Observer, 1922-1928 1922-1928 Local reports on labour recruiting, cotton farming and Hudson.
Morrell (1990) The Natal Agricultural Journal (1903, 1904, 1909) 1903-1909 Source for farmer views on labour discipline and whipping and for biographical details of JPs and magistrates' families.
Murray (1980) L. Duvoisin quotation in Germond (ed.), Chronicles of Basutoland (Morija, 1967) 1885 Contemporary account of wealth differentiation among polygynous aristocrats in Basutoland in 1885.
Nielsen (1922) German newspapers Der Christliche Pilger (9 May 1920) and Volkslinger Nachrichten (14 June 1920) 1920 Cited to corroborate that German women were attracted to black troops, undermining the 'instinctive' racial aversion thesis.
Nielsen (1922) Rhodesian press letters by white women during anti-miscegenation agitation c. 1920-21 Used to claim that white women's concern was marriage chances rather than racial degradation.
O'Meara (1978) Forward (Labour newspaper), 2 November 1934 1934 Reports the T&LC delegates' account of relaxation of apprenticeship rules and fears of undercutting by rural migrants.
Obi (2006) Media and government statements on land reform and foreign ownership: SABC-2 (2004, 2006), Business Day (2006), Reuters (2006), Budget Speech 2006, State of the Nation 2006, Land Summit speeches (Didiza 2005) 2004-2006 Context for perceptions of rising land prices, alleged collusion and foreign ownership policy.
Obi (2006) Press and commentary on foreign buyers: Property24.com (2005), Aida National Franchises (2002), Real Fact (2005), National Association of Realtors (2005), ABSA house price indices, The Economist (18 June 2005) 2002-2005 Evidence on perceived foreign buyer role, their share (3-10% of buyers) and housing price comparison (Table 3.2).
Olivier (1929) Bishop Frank Weston, The Serfs of Great Britain pamphlet and biography extracts 1920-1921 Describes Zanzibar decrees of 1917 and 1919 and East African labour proposals, and the moral case against forced labour.
Padayachee (1988) South (magazine), August 1985 August 1985 Source for wealthy Eurobond investors getting cold feet and the poor reception of ESCOM's July 1985 bond issue.
Pankhurst (1996) Windhoek Advertiser, Editorial, 9 December 1993 1993 Illustrates policy discourse framing land redistribution as righting apartheid 'land theft', as in the attack on the Prime Minister's letter.
Posel (1987) G. Cronje, Voogdyskap en Apartheid (Pretoria, 1948) and 'n Tuiste vir die Nageslag (1945) 1945-1948 Contemporary intellectual statements of total segregation, used to show the faction's influence.
Price (1953) Observation of the campaign (meetings, broadcasts, canvassing, polling day, counting) March-April 1953 Provides narrative description of campaign issues, slogans, turnout scenes and counting progress.
Rodman (1994) Congressional Quarterly (5 Nov 1983; 27 Sept 1986) 1983-1986 Documents congressional measures in 1983 and the European Community's weaker response in 1986.
Rodman (1994) Fortune interviews (Kessler, "Goodyear Toughs It Out", 30 Sept 1985) and IRRC South African Reporter June 1989 1985-1989 Evidence on investor reasoning for staying in South Africa and the effect of the Rangel Amendment on withdrawals.
Sabbagh (1968) Mortimer, Border Industries and the Bantustans (African World, 1964) 1964 Source for the Good Hope Textile Mill's employment of about 3500 Bantu.
Sabbagh (1968) South African Summary, Vol. 5, No. 32, 1966 1966 Source for the Bantu Investment Corporation loan figures by 1966 and the purchases of White trading stations.
Sanderson (1961) Central African Times; Life and Work in British Central Africa; Aurora (Livingstonia journal) 1903-1904 Evidence on tax evasion by flight to the border, labour market effects, mission views and conditions of the journey.
Schirmer (1994) Lydenburg News, 14 January 1949; 20 January 1950 1949-1950 Source for Boomplaats farm values and land prices (cited with NAD Agricultural Officer estimate).
Schirmer (1999) J.R. McLaughlin, 'A Defence of Control in the Marketing of Agricultural Products' (1938) 1938 Quoted as an official statement that the social aim of keeping whites on the land shaped board pricing.
Schirmer (1999) S.J.J. de Swardt, 'Agricultural Marketing Problems in the Nineteen Thirties' (memoir/participant account) and Viljoen, 'Planned Agriculture in South Africa' (1938) 1930s (published 1938, 1983) Used as official testimony on how and why the marketing board system was designed and accepted.
Strauss (1993) Diamond Fields Advertiser (Kimberley), 3 and 19 March 1992 March 1992 Cited for the C.P. advertisement claims and for the inference that most whites, including some C.P. supporters, supported reform.
Strauss (1993) Die Volksblad (Bloemfontein), March 1992 March 1992 Cited for Canberra's sanctions warning, the Private Sector Referendum Fund appeal, and public opinion after the vote.
Strauss (1993) Oosterlig (Port Elizabeth), 10 March 1992 March 1992 Source for the N.P.'s 1989 election mandate to negotiate a new constitution, which frames the referendum.
Strauss (1993) West Africa (London), 10-16 May 1993, pp. 770-71 May 1993 Source for the postscript on Mandela's London visit and the A.N.C.'s government of national unity position.
Suttner (2004) Murphy Morobe, 'Towards a People's Democracy: The UDF View', Review of African Political Economy 40 (1987) 1987 Primary statement of UDF leadership's view of democratic means and ends, used to illustrate 'prefigurative democracy'.
Vink (2012) Competition Commission media release of 20 April 2011 2011 Cited for the withdrawal of the dairy companies case.
Wagner et al. (1984) Value Line Investment Survey, Timeliness and Safety Ratings c. 1984 Compares S&P 500 and Alternative Universe by distribution of timeliness and safety ranks and institutional holdings (Tables III, IV).
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912) Cape Town Branch of the Afrikaner Bond criticism of the Draft Act; Cape, Natal, Transvaal and ORC parliamentary responses February–May 1909 Reconstructs public reaction and the amendments requested.
Zunes (1999) Karis, T. 1983-4, 'Revolution in the Making: Black Politics in South Africa', Foreign Affairs 1983-84 Source for the estimate of ANC military personnel (no more than 14,000) and homeland cooperation with the military.
Zunes (1999) Leonard, R. 1981, 'Mobilizing for total war', Southern Africa (military capacity figures) early 1980s Provides figures on the South African Defence Force's troop strength, reserves, cadets and equipment, used to argue armed struggle was hopeless.