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Producer Courts
Coverage 1934-2007
Works using it 9

Debates

Debate Works
Resistance and liberation movements 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(organiser) et al. (2008) Federal Criminal Court ruling in the Olmos Case (Argentina), July 2000, and Case No. 17.718 1982-2000, ongoing The judicial finding on arbitrary debt build-up 1976-83 and IMF complicity is the main evidence for the Argentine illegitimacy claim.
(organiser) et al. (2008) Khulumani v. Barclay National Bank et al. (ATCA litigation, US District Court New York) on apartheid-era financing 2002-2007 The ATCA damages suit against Swiss, German and British banks and corporations is the key apartheid-debt case discussed by Abrahams.
(organiser) et al. (2008) South African court case on the British Aerospace arms deal (constitutional authority of the finance minister) c. 1999-2007 Used by Abrahams as an example of a constitutional challenge to a state contract, which the court rejected as an executive discretion matter.
Chaskalson and Duncan (1984) Transvaal Provincial Division Applications Nos. 5767/83, 10260/83 and 11907/83 1983 Court case records back the Mr K example of a superintendent unlawfully cancelling a house permit.
Edgecombe (1987) Rex v Shapiro trial documents and evidence, 1934 (Criminal Case No. 1466 of 1934, Dundee) 1934 Evidence on the operation of the token system, Shapiro's testimony on profits and use, and the ruling that the regulations were ultra vires.
Hyslop (1987) Potgietersrust Regional Court trial record: Die Staat Teen Patrick Kekana (held in AAS 120) early 1970s Cross-examination of a circumcised teacher illustrates teacher-traditionalist hostility.
Mazower (1990) Court case records: 1\CPD 1\1\1\1Y1 Case 1015 of 1947, Meyer v. Hlengwa; 1/WEN 3/3/2/2 Govt. v Estate John Geekie 1947 1947-1950 Case evidence of conversion of rent-paying tenants to labour tenancy and the market value of labour farms.
Mazower (1990) Magistrates' criminal case records containing labour tenant contracts (calculated by the author) 1940s Basis for the calculation that only 40-45% of kraalheads actually worked.
Nielsen (1922) Court records of South African courts (generalised) unspecified Invoked in general terms to show that Natives sustain revenge against their own colour.
Seekings (1990) Baleka trial court transcript (State vs Baleka and 21 others), Supreme Court, Transvaal Provincial Division, evidence of Thobela, Tsagane, Mazibuko, Mhlambi 1978-1985 events (testimony) Residents' testimony establishes the promises made at removal, conditions in Duduza, rent increases, Civic Association actions and the events of February 1985.
Seekings (1990) State vs Montoedi and others (court record, evidence of Councillor Namane) 1984-85 Evidence on councillors' resignations after the November 1984 funeral.
Swilling (1987) Transcript of UDF meeting proceedings, Natal, 18 July 1984 (exhibit M44, State v. Ramgobin and 15 others) July 1984 Source for a trade-union leader's class-struggle rhetoric within the UDF.
Tilly (2005) 1987 Supreme Court trial of Moses Mayekiso and others (defence work and materials) 1987 Bozzoli's involvement as adviser to the defence gave access to evidence and defendants, forming the first block of evidence.
Tilly (2005) Trial records of Ashwell Zwane and others (1987) 1987 One of three large blocks of evidence from which Bozzoli constructs her narrative of the 1986 Alexandra mobilisation (as described by the reviewer).