ANC policy documents and statements

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	African National Congress
Coverage	1980s-1994
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Anglin (1995)	ANC submissions to the UN (Some Comments on the Report of the UN Secretary-General, 11 Aug 1992; Recommendations of the ANC, 24 Aug 1992)	1992	Shows ANC demands for a 400-strong observer team with police expertise and investigative powers.
Crush and Jeeves (1993)	ANC National Land Commission / African National Congress (1991) land policy document	1991	Cited as the ANC's rhetorical commitment to state-led land acquisition and redistribution.
Giliomee (1995)	ANC National Working Committee statement, 18 November 1992, and Joe Slovo statement (FBIS, Radio South Africa, 20 November 1992)	November 1992	Shows ANC leaders admitting organizational weakness and inability to defeat the state, supporting the stalemate/transplacement argument.
Suttner (2004)	ANC January 8 statements and Radio Freedom broadcasts	1980s	Shows UDF activists studied ANC strategic 'tasks' but interpreted them locally.
Van Wyk (2005)	ANC documents: 1987 Statement on negotiations, Discussion paper on negotiations (16 June 1989), Constitutional Guidelines (1988), Discussion Document on Economic Policy (1990), MERG, 1992 Policy Guidelines, RDP	1986-1994	Establishes the ANC's shift toward negotiation and neo-liberal economic policy.