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Debates

Debate Works
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 5
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 5
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Resistance and liberation movements 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(organiser) et al. (2008) Indonesia warship sale case materials (sales contract clause, German export regulations, reports on use in Aceh/East Timor) 1989-2007 Kaiser asserts the contract restricted use of the ships and that the vessels were used in internal conflicts.
Abedian (1982) Department of Commerce, Industry and Tourism 1979 business census / business licence records 1979-1980 Used as bench-mark for the total number of establishments to gross up sample value added (with 25-30% adjustment).
Brink et al. (1953) War Veterans Torch Commando printed memorandum (statistics, graphs and histograms on loading and unloading) 1952 Argued that urban votes had lost value against rural votes through repeated loading and unloading; the Commission rejected it.
Callinicos (1990) Joint Distribution Group informal feedback and sales reports 1980s Informal evidence that popular history books are in demand among workers.
Carter (1958) Delegation/church documents (D.R.C. reports, Christian Council, Rosettenville Conference, Visser 't Hooft report) and Afrikaner organisation publications 1937-1953 Used for the doctrinal and organisational basis of Afrikaner nationalism and church positions.
Engel (1999) Written communication by RSA Government to the author (03/02/1990) 1989 Source for the composition of Parliament in 1989.
Feinberg (1993) Dutch Reformed Church records: NGK Synodal Commission Notule Boek (Germiston, March 4, 1913) and Handelingen of Federal Council (March 1913) March 1913 Church resolutions deploring land sales to Africans show outside pressure on the government.
Feinberg (1993) Estate records of Free State MPs early 20th century Used to indicate wealth of some Orange Free State delegation members.
Gould (1981) Unpublished and non-citable government sources c. 1977-1980 Unspecified facts and figures on the labour situation used throughout without citation.
Hackland (1980) Letter, C. W. Eglin to H. F. Oppenheimer, 2.11.63 1963 Cited as evidence that Harry Oppenheimer was the Progressive Party's sole major financial backer.
Harris (1986) Letter from Tutu, Naude and Boesak to Leutwiler, 8 February 1986 February 1986 Illustrates the alternative of freezing South African assets abroad, and its non-adoption by the banks.
Johnson (1982) Manifesto for Christian National Education (Feb 1948), via Robertson and Whitten 1978 and Hirson 1979 1948 Establishes the ideological premises of native education as trusteeship, non-equality and segregation.
Kaplan (1983) Correspondence with the South African Reserve Bank c. 1982 Supports the claim that dividend/balance-of-payments contribution is a criterion for approving foreign investment.
Laurence et al. (1913) Representations and memorials from political associations and residents (Unionist Political Association; Pilgrims Rest and Sabie electors; Montagu inhabitants) 1912 Evidence on community of interest and local sentiment weighed against statistical constraints when drawing boundaries.
Lemon (1982) Manifesto of the National Party (1981) 1981 Primary text for the NP's campaign platform and its areas of vagueness on constitutional, labour and homeland policy.
Minkley (1990) Letter from unspecified source to G.O. (personal archive) c.1957-58 Source for popular views on Section 10 and the pass system as unholy alliance between employers and authorities.
Morrell (1990) Greytown Museum, 'Greytown People', files on Fannin and Giles 19th century Documents overlap between magistrates, farmers and the armed forces.
Nattrass (1999b) TRC press release on business hearings (information from Simon Segal) 1997 Supports the claim that the business hearings were framed in non-threatening terms to encourage participation.
Robinson (1994) Unpublished manuscript (memoirs), A. P. McNamee, c. 1988 c. 1988 Source for McNamee Jnr's romanticised memories of growing up in Red Location.
Schirmer (1994) Edith Jones' notes on visit to Aapiesdoorndraai, February 1941 and interview with Chief Christian Manok (WHPL AD843) 1941 Describes the farm's soil/erosion condition and Manok history.
Schirmer (1994) Letter from Micha Dinkwanyane to Go Bapedi Tribe, 14 December 1951 (handed to author by Samuel Modipa) 1951 Shows Micha urged followers to resist removal.
Schirmer (1994) WHPL AD843/RJ 2.2.6, List of African Occupied Farms in Lydenburg Sekhukhuneland Region, 1938 1938 Supports claim that few farms remained for African settlement on the eastern side of the Steelpoort.
Stemmet (2002) Correspondence from Gen. Magnus Malan (8 August 2000) and Rupert International / Office of Dr Anton Rupert documents 1985-2000 Provides Malan's written views on JMCs and revolutionary warfare and Rupert's 1986 letter to Botha and other business viewpoints.
Strauss (1993) Campaign advertisements, open letters and public statements (C.P., N.P., D.P., Private Sector Referendum Fund, I.F.P., companies) February-March 1992 Used as primary evidence of the arguments each side deployed (economic collapse, sanctions, jobs, investment).
Swilling (1987) UDF list of affiliates, State v. Mawalal Ramgobin and 15 others, exhibit D7 early 1984 Tabulated the UDF's affiliates by region and type to show organisational composition, which the author then argues is misleading.
Venter (1979) 1844 treaty between Mpondo Chief Faku and Britain; 1861 cession and 1879 annexation 1844-1879 Treaty and cession history is used to set out the competing Transkei and South African legal claims to Griqualand East.
Venter (1979) 1964 OAU Cairo Summit resolution on Border Disputes between African States 1964 Explains the OAU non-recognition of Transkei and the inviolability-of-boundaries principle.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912) Author's personal notes taken during the National Convention sittings (1908-09) October 1908 – May 1909 Sole basis for the reconstructed speeches and debates of the secret Convention, supplemented by memory.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912) Memorandum by G. R. Hofmeyr, Secretary to the Convention 1911-12 Insider verification of the accuracy of Walton's record, noting omissions and insertions, based on memory.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912) Petitions on Women's Franchise submitted to the Convention 1908-09 Signature counts for and against women's suffrage used to infer that most women opposed it.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912) Rhodes's manuscript notes on federation c. 1890s-1902 Quoted to show Rhodes favoured federation with local control of land, minerals, labour, railways and defence federal.