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Understanding South African Political Violence: A New Problematic?
(1993-04) du Toit, André
Political violence has deep historical roots in South Africa. But if violence has figured prominently, it usually has not proved too difficult to make sense of it: the violence of conquest, the violence of frontier wars, the violence of apartheid and of the struggle against apartheid, the criminal violence of gangs and the ritualized violence of faction fights. Understanding such types of violence has consisted in relating the pathologies and instrumentalities of violence in appropriate ways to these primary social processes and political phenomena. The extent and intensity of current political violence is, however, more difficult to comprehend. This essay, by André du Toit, is in part an attempt to provide an interpretation of the “new political violence”. At one level, the current process of transition has resulted in a shift from the politics of violence to the politics of negotiation. At another level, however, the process has been marked by increasing political violence in the black townships. The incidence of interracial violence has been more limited. The current patterns of violence need to be understood in part in the context of local struggles that are independent of the “master narrative” of violence. They are also not unrelated to the processes of modernization generated by apartheid and to the rapidly diminishing expectations from the negotiations currently underway. The paper places political violence in the context of attempts and steps toward modernization that date back to the seventeenth century. The earlier forms of violence involved warfare between isolated communities, the expansion of the frontier, the formation of the modern state and the suppression of resistance to colonial rule by the Boers and the Zulus. The key feature of African resistance to oppression in the twentieth century was, however, its non-violent character. The resistance was based on demands for full incorporation in the modern state with civil and political rights of citizenship. Even the enforced recourse to violence after the imposition of apartheid did not represent a rejection of the values and ideals of the modern political state and society.
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The State of Science and Technology in South Africa: New Priorities, New Policies
(1995-06) Kaplan, David
This paper surveys the new government's inheritance with respect to science and technology (S&T). Based on an assessment of that inheritance, the author defines the likely policy objectives of the new government and outlines how goverment will seek to restructure the S&T system to meet the new policy objectives.
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The South African Fruit Processing Industry: Is the Climate Ripe?
(1996-07) Hanival, Stephen
The previous government's Regional Industrial Development Policy (RIDP) was premised on a logic of dispersion. This policy resulted in the relocation of labour-intensive industries to the homelands and other 'deconcentration points'.
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The Clothing Industry in Durban
(1996-07) Prinsloo, Erica
Dating back several decades, and shaped by the history of the region, the clothing industry in Durban is unique in its relationships, functioning, institutions and prodpects. But it is also one of the largest concentrations of clothing manufacturers in the country.
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A Study of the Cape Clothing Industry
(1996-07) October, Lionel
In terms of economic development, regional and local government strategies in South Africa (SA) have focused on the attraction of foreign direct investment and promoting tourism.
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Printing and Publishing in the Witwatersrand
(1996-07) Schur, Michael
The aim of this research project is to determine the role that institutions, including government at all levels, could play in bolstering economic performance in sectorally and geographically concentrated manufacturing firms, and to examine whether such initiatives can form part of a regional industrial policy.
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Restructuring the South African Steel Industry: Case-Study Newcastle
(1996-07) McDonald, Faith
This paper, as part of teh Industriap Strategic Project (ISP) Phase Two, Sectors, Clusters and Regions Project researches the effect of industrial restructuring in the town of Newcastle, KwaZulu/Natal.
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South African Industrial Policy and the Learning Firm: A Case Study of Bell Equipment Ltd
(1996-11) Kaplinsky, Raphael; Mhlongo, Edmund
The debate on industrial policy is often counterposed between two truisms.
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Learning, Technical Change and the Trade Regime in the South African Automotive Component Sector
(1996-12) Black, Anthony
In an article published in the Harvard Business Review in 1989, Magaziner et al give a compelling description of the entry of the Korean conglomerate, Samsung, into microwave oven production in the early 1970's.
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A Tale of Two Companies: A Case Study of the Glass Packaging Industry in South Africa
(1997-02) Rosenthal, Tanya
The two companies chosen for this study were chosen specifically to explore how companies, facing similar competitive pressures, have decided to respond.
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Tourism Development and the Empowerment of Local Communities
(1997-08) de Beer, Geoff; Eliffe, Sean
This paper has been prepared as part of the Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI) policy research program.
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Some International Perspectives on Tourism Led Socio-Economic Development
(1997-08) de Beer, Geoff; Wheeller, Brian
The concept of tourism led socio-economic developemnt in not new or peculiar to South Africa, and international experience and best practise are being assessed as part of the SDI Policy Programme (Agri-tourism SDI's).
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Restructuring for Survival: A Case Study of a Small-Appliance Manufacturer in South Africa
(1997-09) Joffe, Avril
The essence of the story is that this is a factory with a heartbeat. There is a constant focus on product development, quality and cost. Communication is high on the list of objectives. There is a joint definition of productivity as a state of mind, a collective will to improve and a general belief in the human desire to do better.
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An Assessment of the Factors that Promoted Industrial Development in Richards Bay
(1997-12) Aniruth, Jayanthi; Barnes, Justin
The research findings and policy recommendatons presented in this report owe their existence to the Industrial Strategy Project (ISP), who commissioned the study as a mechanism for providing input into the Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) policy framework nationally. - See more at: http://www.dpru.uct.ac.za/working-papers#sthash.R5jwrB1h.dpuf
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Income and Price Elasticities in Manufacturing Exports
(1998-02) Bhorat, Haroon
The cornerstone of the South African government's economic policy lies in the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) programme.
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Allocating Community Benefits: Institutional Options in Support of the Empo-Tourism Models
(1998-02) Eliffe, Sean; Rutsch, Peter; de Beer, Geoff
This paper is the fourth in a series of issue papers prepared within the SDI Policy Programme. It aims to support and enhance the application of work already completed on economic empowerment and to guide/influence the planning and development processes applied in respect of each of the individual tourism led SDI's.
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The SADC's Revealed Comparative Advantage in Regional and International Trade
(1998-11) Valentine, Nicole
This paper forms part of the DPRU Industrial Strategy Project: Phase Two.
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Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa
(1999-05) Leibbrandt, Murray; Bhorat, Haroon; Woolard, Ingrid
This paper uses various decomposition techniques to understand the nature of household inequality in contemporary South Africa. It examines, firstly, the importance of race in overall inequality; secondly, the contribution of major income sources to national inequality; and thirdly, the relationship between inequality, poverty and the labour market.
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Public Expenditure and Poverty Alleviation in the South African Labour Market
(1999-05) Bhorat, Haroon
The paper utilises a class of poverty measures to determine the potential cost to the fiscus, in 1995 Rands, of alleviating poverty in South Africa. The simulations are undertaken for both households and individuals in the society, by the different covariates of poverty.
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Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market
(1999-05) Bhorat, Haroon; Leibbrandt, Murray
Using the October Household Survey of 1995 (OHS95), this paper seeks to understand the determinants of indigence in the South African labour market. To this end the study presents a description of the labour market, focusing on how covariates such as race, gender, education and location help explain the poverty observed in the labour market.