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Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 10
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 7
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 7
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 4
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 4
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 3
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Education, Bantu Education and skills 2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
Historiographical approaches 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Census, race classification and demographic data 1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1987) Data supplied by Department of Transport and Provincial Administrations on vehicle stock and costs 1985/86 Supplies the fleet size (24 000 vehicles, R100m book value) and R120m maintenance and operation cost figures.
Anglin (1995) Diplomatic correspondence and press statements (Botha-Boutros-Ghali letters, joint statement of international observer missions 29 Mar 1994, UNOMSA press releases, SADF reaction) 1992-1994 Shows government attitudes to observers and the missions' joint demarches on IEC arrangements.
Anglin (1995) UNOMSA internal documents: 'Elections in South Africa' brief (9 Nov 1993), 'Guidelines on the Implementation of Resolution 772', First Quarterly Report, press releases 1992-1994 Used for the mission's planning, size estimates, interpretation of its mandate and public statements.
Beinart (1982) Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (WMMS) archives, incl. Jenkins papers 1830s-1880 Main evidence on nineteenth-century Mpondo society, cattle trade and missionary observations.
Bergholm (2009) SAJ (Finnish Trade Union Federation) board minutes 1961-1966, Kansallisarkisto 1961-1966 Documents the 1963 SAJ boycott committee and the support for the partial alcohol boycott.
Best (1971) Unpublished and published materials from government departments and corporations (Dept. of Bantu Administration and Development, Dept. of Planning, Tswana Territorial Authority, Bantu Investment Corporation, IDC, Bantu Affairs Commissioners) 1960s-1969 Supplies the economic and demographic data on the Tswana homeland and border towns.
Breckenridge (1995) CAD SAM (South African Mint) files, e.g. SAM 38 C2/57, SAM 34 C2/39, SAM 190 7/6/3 1924-1929 Source for Kemmerer-Vissering evidence (Warner), McKenzie's report on notes, Mint correspondence on coinage, and estimates of the money supply.
Brits (1969) Report No. 44A of the National Marketing Council (Unpublished), 1942 c. 1942-44 Documents the Council's scepticism that the one-channel scheme would raise producer prices.
Callinicos (1990) Historical photographs and Afrapix photographic work; History Workshop photographic archive 1885-1935 and 1980s Discussed as a developing visual source for popular history.
Christopher (1994b) Manuscript location returns in the 1911 and 1951 censuses (Central Archives Depot / Central Statistical Services, Pretoria) 1911 and 1951 Used to map Black locations recorded in the 1911 and 1951 censuses.
Crush (1993) Address by Minister M.C. Botha to Labour Conference, Pretoria, October 1975 (NRC 1157) October 1975 Shows the state's stated rationale for withdrawing protection of the farm labour supply.
Crush and McDonald (2001) Home Affairs memorandum to Cabinet (1997) and Minister of Home Affairs statement, June 1996 1996-1997 Quoted to show the Department's hardline stance against reform; the archival location is not given.
Devereux (2007) Archival research in the Library of Parliament, Windhoek and the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town 1928-2000 The stated basis for the political and administrative history, mainly Hansard and legislation.
Dubow (1986) Pretoria State Archives, SDK series (Public Service Commission), e.g. SDK 112 4/15/1, SDK 113 4/15/1 part IV, SDK 119 4/15/44 1922-1928 PSC memoranda and reports on the reorganisation of the NAD and Barrett's retirement, and on later transfers of magistracies to the NAD.
Edgecombe (1987) Inspector of Mines for Natal Accident Reports (I.M.N.A.) and Mines Department Accident Reports (M.D.A.) 1939-1949 Accident inquiry testimony linking beer hall drinking to accidents and continued indebtedness after 1939.
Halpern (2004) Donelson Caffery and Family Papers, Letterbooks (LLMVC, LSU), incl. Mary W. Pugh Papers 1870s-1900s Planter letters evidence attitudes to black labour, diversification, the tariff and the Cuba annexation; Pugh's letter on the Thibodaux massacre.
Halpern (2004) Edward J. Gay and Family Papers; Andrew Hynes Gay and Family Papers (LLMVC) 1870-1892 Letters document planter views on black, Swedish, German and Chinese labour and the Chinese contract agreement.
Harries (1986) Transvaal Republican archives and Portuguese archives and publications (named by the reviewer as overlooked by Jeeves) c. 1890s The reviewer says these archives were not used by Jeeves and would affect his account of Kruger-era labour policy and Mozambican recruiting.
Harries (1987) Despatch book of Melmoth Osborne, British Resident in Zululand 1880 Documents Zulu labour entering Natal after the Anglo-Zulu war and chiefs' role.
Harries (1987) Portuguese archives: AHU Moz., Ministerio dos Negocios Estrangeiros (MNE) Lisbon 1871-1878 Portuguese policy on embarkation and the governor's report of the 1878 return exodus.
Hendrie (1976b) Unpublished files of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing (used by the Du Plessis Commission) unspecified Mentioned as the unpublished material the Commission had to rely on.
Higginson (1992) Rene Lemarchand Collection (Hoover Institution) and Congo Collection: Martin van Rijck Papers (Lansing) 1942-1946 Association reports and court notes on Kitawala illustrate urban African associations and millenarian sects.
Iliffe (1999) Bank of England and British government records on gold and the 1899 war c.1886-1899 Further search found no serious evidence that gold supply concerns motivated British aggression in 1899.
Iliffe (1999) Transvaal (South African Republic) land records from the Great Trek 1830s-1900 Beginning to be used to show how notables accumulated land through public office and off-farm resources.
Jeeves and Crush (1990) Archival collections on white farmers' politics and farm labour (unspecified) 1910s-1970 (Union onward) Described as the main source for the planned project, revealing the political battles of white farmers and the struggles of workers and families over labour tenancy.
Laurence et al. (1913) Consultations with the Department of the Interior, Justice, Lands, Surveyor-General, and Civil Commissioners and field cornets 1912 Official correspondence and file reconciliation used to reconcile voter numbers and boundaries after proclamations.
Lichtenstein (2004) FEPC Records, microfilm roll 85, Field Records Region VII (CRL) 1945 Evidence on race relations in wartime shipyards.
Mariotti and Fourie (2014) Apartheid-era primary archival sources on homeland industrial zones (Kerby 2014) c. 1960s-2000s (over 40 years) Used by Kerby to trace the development and failure of industrial incentive zones.
Massie (1997) Charles C. Diggs Jr. Collection, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University (incl. Diggs Trip Report, questionnaire to U.S. firms) 1970s Documents Diggs's 1971 trip, his questionnaires to firms and corporate refusals to reply, and a State Department memo.
Massie (1997) John F. Kennedy Presidential Library files (NSF, POF, oral histories) 1960-1963 Source for Kennedy administration deliberations on South Africa, Portugal and the Azores base.
McCulloch (2004) ANC archival records on Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College and Dakawa Development Centre 1978-1992 Archival and interview evidence is used to show gaps between the ANC's educational ideals and practice, for example on corporal punishment.
McCulloch (2004) Case records of Ashley and Gasant, Ottery School of Industries (Badroomien) apartheid era Two committed boys' experiences illustrate the welfare and correctional motives behind policy.
McGrath et al. (2004b) Cape Archives PAE Cape Provincial Administration – Education 227 E13; Transvaal Archives NTS Vol 8537 37/360/G (Moila Reserve Local Council) 1911; 1940-41 The Moila Reserve file is a case study of the Native Affairs Department imposing school gardening over books, illustrating agricultural curriculum policy.
Minter (1986) CIA memorandum 'Sanctions and the South African Economy', 3 September 1965, National Security Country Files, Box 78-79, LBJ Library 1965 Cited as an example of the 'boycotts simply do not work' view held by sanctions opponents.
Morris (1987) Correspondence from Bloedfontein Senotlelo community to the Bantu Affairs Commissioner, Mathajana, 17 November 1977 1977 Evidences complaints about the Bakgatla ba Mocha collecting shop rentals.
Olivier (1929) Kenya Labour Circular No. 1 of 23 October 1919 (Chief Native Commissioner Ainsworth) and explanatory circulars 1919 Reproduced in full to show official pressure on chiefs and officials to supply labour to settlers.
Sharp and West (1984) Leipoldt's diary, Monthly Reports, Rhenish Mission Society, 1840 1840 Shows that children of Dutch trekboer farmers used mission schools, i.e. mixed use of reserve zones.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reparation and Rehab... (1998) Correspondence between Swiss banks and the Finance Ministry in Pretoria 1950-1980 Shows foreign banks lent to Eskom only on condition of central government guarantees.
Van Vuuren (2006) Archival collections: SAHA, Wits Historical Manuscripts, UCT Historical Archives, Johncom Archive, DISA, SAIRR Library 1976-1994 Source for documents and press cuttings, e.g. Steyn Report in SAHA's TRC collection.
Van Vuuren (2006) Steyn Report to the State President (Military Intelligence documents), SAHA TRC collection c.1990-1992 Shows military intelligence concern about CCB and front companies' impact on negotiations.
Verhoef (n.d.) National Archives of South Africa (NASA), Treasury (TES): Registrar of Banks – Volkskas letters and Volkskas admission to Clearing House 1945-1946 Documents BB's proposal of 12 September 1946 to admit Volkskas to the clearing house on condition of subscribing to ROCO.
Westerfield (1929) Original sources in libraries and government offices in London, Amsterdam, New York and the South African capitals (as consulted by Arndt, per the reviewer) 1652-1927 Underpins the narrative history of South African currency and banking, which the reviewer calls elaborately documented in original sources.
Zuberi et al. (2005) South African State Archives files (Moffat letter 1911; OCS radio broadcasts 1925; Statistical Council minutes 1921, SES files) 1911-1925 Used to show the aims of the census office and the Statistical Council's choice of four racial categories.