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Sunday Times (Johannesburg)

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Coverage 1948-2008
Works using it 15

Debates

Debate Works
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
Education, Bantu Education and skills 2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bond (2004) Sunday Times Gauteng Metro, 19 May 2002 2002 Evidence for service disconnections regularly reaching 20,000 households per month.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Sunday Times (Johannesburg), 23 January 1983; 19 December 1982; 17 April 1983; 13 September 1981; The Star (Johannesburg), 2 July 1980 1980-1983 Evidence on Lesotho minister's remarks, possible casino-company merger, Venda casino bail-out, Thaba Nchu opposition.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Sunday Times article of 13 December 1953 (cited via CAD memo) 1953 A departmental memo on the article records farmers' complaints about the distribution of conservation resources.
Giliomee (2009) Sunday Times, 17 August 2008 and The Citizen, 9 November 2008 2008 Reports remarks by Ramphele and Luhabe comparing Bantu education favourably with present-day township schools.
Hyslop (2005) Sunday Times, 27 April 2003 (interview with Premier Stofile) 2003 Quoted to illustrate the Eastern Cape leadership's disregard for administrative responsibility.
Johnson (1982) Sunday Times, 1/29/78, 'The Broederbond Grip on Education' 1978 Supports the claim that Broederbond members control education policy.
Kaplan (1989) Sunday Times, 2 October 1977 1977 Quotes the Postmaster General on the political-risk rationale for two import sources of technology.
Maree (1993a) Sanlam Economic Survey May 1991 (reported in Sunday Times Business Times 19.05.91) 1991 Shows that only one in ten new labour market entrants was assured of a formal sector job.
Maree (1993b) Sanlam Economic Survey, May 1991 (reported in Sunday Times Business Times) 1991 Shows that only one in ten new labour market entrants was assured a formal-sector job.
O'Meara (1977) Sunday Times (Johannesburg) series on the Bond, incl. 28 January 1973 membership breakdown and Waaksaamheid committee lists 1963-1973 Provides the 1972 membership breakdown (9,413 members), lists of vigilance committees, and evidence on job favouritism and purges.
O'Meara (1978) Johannesburg Sunday Times library 'Splinter and Minor Parties' file 1948-1969 Counts the 31 fringe parties formed after 1948, 17 of them to foster white labour interests.
Savage (1984) Minutes of 1974 Pretoria meeting of police and Bantu Affairs Commissioners, via Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 13 July 1980 1974/1980 Evidence that officials manipulated pass law offence figures to avoid unfavourable publicity, casting doubt on official data.
Savage (1986) Minutes of 1974 meeting in Pretoria between police and Bantu Affairs Commissioners, reported in Sunday Times, 13 July 1980 1974/1980 Evidence that officials manipulated pass law offence statistics, used to caution about data reliability.
Strauss (1993) Statement by the Economic Policy Study Group, reported in Sunday Times (8 March 1992) and The Natal Witness (10 March 1992) March 1992 Used as the economists' warning that a 'No' vote would bring stagnation and loss of foreign confidence.
Wilkins and Strydom (1978) Sunday Times series on the Broederbond, January-February 1978 1978 Earlier published exposé of the same leaked documents, including Serfontein's coloured election article.