National budget, Treasury and Division of Revenue documents

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	National Treasury / Department of Finance
Coverage	1969-2010
Works using it	10

Debates

Debate	Works
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	4
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	3
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	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
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Aron and Muellbauer (2006)	Treasury estimate of household holdings of long-term government bonds	recent (unspecified)	Used as a second benchmark, requiring a modified revaluation adjustment for bond holdings.
Horrell (1970)	Estimates of Expenditure from Revenue Account, R.P. 2/69 (1969-70 budget)	1969-70	Source for the defence vote and the secret services allocation in the Prime Minister's vote.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008)	Minister of Finance, Division of Revenue Bill, Various Years, Part 4: Provincial Allocations	FY 1998/99-2005/06	Supplies per-capita grants for the Western Cape and majority provinces in Table 2, used to infer the Mbeki-era q levels and test sustainability.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2013)	Minister of Finance, Division of Revenue Bill, Various Years, Part 4: Provincial Allocations	FY 1998/99-2009/10	Supplies provincial grant and service-grant data for FY 1998/99 to 2009/10 used to construct Table 1 and Table 2.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2013)	South African Budget, Department of Finance, Various Years	post-1994	Source for post-apartheid police and prison expenditures (39.1bn Rand average) in the peace dividend comparison.
Perkins et al. (2005a)	National Treasury, Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2003	2000/01-2003/04	Road spending growth figures.
Rubin (1997a)	National budget 1997-98 and RDP cost estimates	1997-98	Illustrates the scale of R90bn against budget lines and RDP costs.
Rubin (1997b)	National Budget 1997-98 and RDP cost estimates	1997-1998	Provides the comparison between the R90bn debt and budget items and RDP costs, with no source cited.
Van Vuuren (2006)	Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, 2006 Budget address (foreign exchange control amnesty results)	2003-2006	Gives 42,672 applications, R68.6bn assets disclosed, R2.9bn levies as proxy of externalised funds.
Wittenberg (2003a)	Intergovernmental Fiscal Review 2003 (personnel expenditure, municipal debt, audit outcomes)	2000/01-2002/03	Provides figures on municipal debtor balances, Auditor General audit status, property rates, and personnel expenditure shares used to assess the post-1994 system.
Wittenberg (2003a)	National Treasury, Division of Revenue table (Intergovernmental Fiscal Review 2003, Table 1.1)	1999/00 to 2005/06	Table 1 shows the vertical split of nationally raised revenue between national departments, provinces and local government, to assess whether provinces are losing share.
Wittenberg (2003b)	National Treasury, Intergovernmental Fiscal Review 2003 (incl. Table 1.1, Division of Revenue 1999/00 to 2005/06)	1999/00-2005/06	Table 1 gives the vertical split of nationally raised revenue and shows trends in provincial and local shares; the Review is also cited for personnel spending, municipal debtors, rates revenue and audit outcomes.