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Debates

Debate Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 4
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bell (1986) Statement by Dr P. J. Riekert, January 1970 1970 Illustrates the late-1960s shift in official perceptions of homeland development.
Chirwa (1996) Banda, Opening Address to the Annual Convention of the Malawi Congress Party, Lilongwe, 4 September 1983 1983 Second quoted speech showing Banda's claim that Wenela was dead and nobody wanted to go under contract.
Davenport (1969) Department of Bantu Administration statements via South Africa House, London 1967 Official description of the purpose of resettlement camps and the rents and pension provisions.
Freund (2012) H.J. van Eck, 'Some Aspects of the South African Industrial Revolution' (1951 speech) 1951 Quoted to show the developmental planners' inward-looking orientation towards the domestic market.
Greenberg (1983) Speeches and papers by J.H. Steyn (Urban Foundation) and other conference papers (Good Hope Conference, South Africa Foundation briefing papers) 1979-1981 Documents the Urban Foundation's framing of urbanization as natural and linked to free enterprise.
Greenberg (1987) Dr W W M Eiselen speech before the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce (1958) 1958 Quoted to show official belief in an efficient system for distributing labour.
Hackland (1980) M. G. Buthelezi speeches and Inkatha 'Statement of Belief'; Black Review 1972 (SASO statement) 1972-1978 Used to show black political organisations' relations with and attitudes toward the PFP.
Hyslop (2005) Political party and ANC statements (Delport for DA, 23 March 2005; Mbeki, 5 June 2003) 2003-2005 Documents the polarised public debate about corruption that the article seeks to move beyond.
Levy (1999a) Public statements by black leaders and South African actors (Tutu, Boesak, Mandela 1990) 1985-1990 Statements are treated as the main evidence in favour of sanctions' (psychological) effectiveness.
Padayachee (1988) G. P. C. de Kock, 'The Gold Price and the South African Economy', paper to the Cape Town Sakekamer, 28 April 1987 1982-1985 Source for average annual gold prices 1982-1985.
Spence (1981c) Prime Minister Botha's statements on the Group Areas Act as 'non-negotiable' April 1981 election campaign Quoted to show the limits Botha places on reform.