Weekly Mail / Mail & Guardian

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Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	Weekly Mail & Guardian
Coverage	1985-2002
Works using it	8

Debates

Debate	Works
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Resistance and liberation movements	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Education, Bantu Education and skills	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bond (2004)	Mail and Guardian, 16 November 1996 (Chippy Olver interview)	1996	Quotes the government infrastructure official rejecting redistributive tariffs because of international competitiveness.
Maree (1993a)	Weekly Mail 08-14.11.91 (anti-VAT strike stayaway figures)	5-6 November 1991	Documents the strike participation (81% and 68%) that underpinned COSATU's demand for an economic forum.
Maree (1993b)	Weekly Mail 08-14.11.91 (anti-VAT strike stayaway figures)	November 1991	Gives stayaway rates showing the union movement's mobilising power behind the demand for the NEF.
Moll (1996b)	Trotter and Shave (1988) and Weekly Mail (3 April 1992) on private school enrolments	1985, 1992	Supplies private school pupil numbers for the discussion of privatization.
Swilling (1985a)	Weekly Mail (Johannesburg), 13 Sept. 1985 – Minister of Law and Order figures	June 1984-October 1985	Official figures on deaths, injuries, arrests and detentions during the unrest and state of emergency.
Tatham (1990)	Christian National Education Manifesto, Article 6(6), reported in Weekly Mail 22 May 1987	1987	Illustrates the ideological claim that God willed separate nations, which Afrikaner historians disseminated.
Wittenberg (2003a)	Newspapers: Weekly Mail and Guardian and Natal Witness (1997-2002)	1997-2002	Used to document corruption, misadministration, political appointments and provincial divergence on AIDS policy after 1994.
Wittenberg (2003b)	Weekly Mail & Guardian and Natal Witness newspaper reports 1997-2002	1997-2002	Anecdotal evidence for corruption, patronage and provincial policy divergence in post-apartheid decentralisation.