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Rand Daily Mail

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg
Coverage 1921-1985
Works using it 23

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 7
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 7
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 6
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 5
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Resistance and liberation movements 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 3
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Breckenridge (1995) Rand Daily Mail, 1927 and 1931 (reports on saving societies, Invergordon) Nov 1927; Sept 1931 Documents the compound saving societies, their fraud cases and hoards, and the reaction to the Invergordon mutiny.
Brookes (1924) Rand Daily Mail editorial 24 Oct 1921 and Joint Council Native Welfare Committee report 1921 Quoted for slum conditions of Natives in Johannesburg.
Crush (1992) Rand Daily Mail, 7 July 1983 and 11 July 1983 (blacklisting reports) July 1983 Documents the Chamber's denial and then admission of blacklisting after NUM complaints.
Crush and James (1995b) Rand Daily Mail, 3 February 1953 1953 Cited for Verwoerd's public rejection of Oppenheimer's family-village plan.
Davies (1979a) Rand Daily Mail reports (1970, 1976-1978) 1970-1978 Source for ministerial figures, employer and business leader quotations, and the Labour Minister's announcements on job reservation.
Davies (1979b) Rand Daily Mail (various issues 1970-1978) 1970-1978 Source for ministerial figures, employer/business-leader statements, and state/union positions on job reservation.
Duncan (1990a) Rand Daily Mail articles by E.H. Brookes, 27/2/23-1/3/23 1923 Evidence of opposition to the cuts to the NAD.
Duncan (1990b) Rand Daily Mail articles by E.H. Brookes, 27/2/23-1/3/23 1923 Shows opposition to cuts in the NAD.
Duncan (1993) Rand Daily Mail (1935) article on native townships 1935 Illustrates white public concern about disease from African locations.
Greenberg (1983) Rand Daily Mail, 12 October 1979 12 October 1979 Source for Koornhof's view that the government's task is to form an ideology enlisting black cooperation.
Horner and Kooy (1980c) Rand Daily Mail, 6 March 1975 (statement by general manager of Mine Labour Organisations) 6 March 1975 Supports the claim that the mines prefer an ethnic 'mix' to prevent total strikes.
Jeeves (1987) Newspaper clippings (Rand Daily Mail, 1928 and 1951) 1928; 1951 Contemporary press cited on the AVS and on WNLA's free-labour portrayal.
Jeeves and Crush (1992) Rand Daily Mail, 3 February 1953 1953 Source for Verwoerd's public rebuke of Oppenheimer's village plan.
Lemon (1982) Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg), 1974, 1977 and 1981 1974-1981 Source for past (1974, 1977) NP campaign slogans and for Slabbert's remarks on black preferences for negotiation.
Mariotti (2008) Rand Daily Mail, January-May 1973 January-May 1973 Used to show white unions accepted relaxation of job reservation but sought equal rates for the job.
Mariotti (2009a) Rand Daily Mail (January-May 1973) January-May 1973 Listed in references, apparently for the January 1973 labor unrest mentioned in the conclusion; use is not explained in the text.
Mariotti (2009b) Rand Daily Mail (January-May 1973), South African Institute of Race Relations Annual Surveys 1967-1973, Abasebenzi 1973-1975 1967-1975 Listed in the references, apparently as background for the January 1973 labour unrest and labour agreements; use not shown in text.
Padayachee (1988) Rand Daily Mail (7 Sept 1982; 20 Sept 1982) 1982 Cited on bankers' view of South African creditworthiness and Horwood's Far East loan plans.
Seekings (1990) Rand Daily Mail, 1979-1982 1979-1982 Dates the 1979 rent increase and reports bus-fare opposition and shack issues.
Smith (1972) Letter of R.A.M. Saloojee, Rand Daily Mail, 19 February 1973 1973 Quoted as an example of Indian resident feeling about forced removal to Lenasia.
Smith (1972) Rand Daily Mail, 30 April 1973 (resettlement of Africans 1968-71) April 1968 - June 1971 Establishes the figure of about 209,000 Africans moved under the homeland resettlement programme.
Swilling (1985a) Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg), 11 March 1985 – strike statistics 1982-1984 Source for the number of strikes (394, 336, 469) and working days lost (124,594 to 378,712) for 1982-84.
Swilling (1985b) Rand Daily Mail, 11 March 1985 (strike statistics) 1982-1984 Source for the number of strikes and working days lost in 1982-84.
Webster (1984) Rand Daily Mail, 31 January 1984 January 1984 Documents management's letter that further stoppages would count as part of the same strike in the retail case.