Implications For South Africa Research Articles

Employment creation in public works: Labour-intensive construction in sub-saharan Africa: The implications for South Africa

Unemployment is one of South Africa's most pressing problems. There is also a widely acknowledged need for housing and infrastructure, both urban (water supply, sewerage reticulation and treatment, storm-water drainage, streets, electrical supply and waste disposal) and rural (dams, irrigation canals and roads). These problems are set within a low level of individual and community capacity in both technical and institutional terms. From a theoretical perspective supported by experience elsewhere in Africa, there are reasons for considering that properly constructed employment-creation programmes based on the use of labour-intensive methods could be established to construct and maintain the required physical infrastructure, thus creating employment, skills and institutional capacities. Following a summary of the main tenets of labour-intensive construction, this paper will provide a brief description of two major programmes in Kenya and Botswana and will draw the main conclusions as to the reasons for their success. Implications for South Africa will then be derived. In the light of the experience elsewhere in Africa recent developments in South Africa will then be described and assessed. The paper will conclude that for success to be achieved a four-phase approach will be required to institute large programmes of labour-intensive construction and maintenance.

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Implications for South Africa

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Implications for South Africa

US trade and investment policy in the 1990s: Implications for South Africa and southern Africa

US trade and investment policy in the 1990s: Implications for South Africa and southern Africa

DIE MOONTLIKE IMPLIKASIES VAN DIE URUGUAY-RONDTE VAN MULTILATERALE HANDELSONDERHANDELINGE VIR SUIDERAFRIKA IN DIE ALGEMEEN EN DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE LANDBOUSEKTOR IN DIE BESONDER / The possible implications of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations for Southern Africa in general and for South African Agriculture in particular

Abstract There is still a possibility that the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations will successfully be completed by early 1993. If there is consensus on a new GATT agreement on the basis of the current discussion document, the so-called Dunkel proposals, it will have several implications for South Africa's agricultural marketing system. This paper intends to summarise the development of negotiations in the Round and refers to the proposals for the liberalisation of world agricultural trade as detailed in the Dunkel paper. This paper shows that if these proposals were to be accepted and implemented it will amongst other things implicate that Article 87 of the Marketing Act should be abolished and that all quantitative import controls on agricultural products should be replaced by tariffs. This will have the effect that the Marketing Boards will lose their statutory powers on imported agricultural products. Apart from the effects on South African agriculture, the whole of Southern Africa would benefit from a successful completion of the Round as a failure will put the whole sub-continent in competition with strong trade-blocs in a situation where there is no organisation like the GATT guarding against unfair trading practices.

A new industrial revolution? Technological change and the implications for South African labour

The new international development literature speaks of the world being on the verge of a renewed industrial revolution. The first part of this paper reviews this literature, focussing on three aspects, its technological character, changes in labour demand and in the labour process and the shifting international locale for industrial innovation and production. A second section considers the implications for South Africa. In some respects, South Africa is in a fairly favourable position for adapting to technological change. However, several major problems pose themselves. This paper suggests: the pressing need for a social compact as a political context; the need to solve skills and trainings limitations and block‐ups; and the difficulties involved in evolving an effective state‐led industrial policy. The danger that only a minority will benefit from successful technological development unless it is linked to ‘inward industrialisation’ strategies is posed. Current efforts to map out the changing industrial ...

Desegregation in Namibia: the demise of urban apartheid?

Namibia is distinctive in southern Africa as the region's last colony. Furthermore, the liberation struggle is not being waged against a distant metropolitan power but Namibia's dominant neighbour, South Africa. These circumstances have had a profound impact on the evolution of Namibia's colonial political economy and urban structure, while simultaneously imposing major constraints on the scope for postcolonial transformation. This study is situated within the theoretical debates on colonial urban development and urban change, and on segregation in capitalist cities. The decolonialization process is examined with respect primarily to urban desegregation in Windhoek after 1977, when arrangements for an ostensible transition to independence began. Attention is devoted to its extent and pattern, its racial and class implications, the perceptions and behaviour of various key actors and groups, and the contradictions and limitations inherent in such reforms. Finally, some thoughts are offered on the prospects for transformation after independence and the implications for South Africa's current haltering reforms of the apartheid system.

REPORT ON A STUDY ON AIR POLLUTION CONTROL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA Undertaken on behalf of the COUNCIL NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CLEAN AIR

REPORT ON A STUDY ON AIR POLLUTION CONTROL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA Undertaken on behalf of the COUNCIL NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CLEAN AIR

The Gold Collateral Agreement and its Aftermath ‐ Implications for South Africa

The Gold Collateral Agreement and its Aftermath ‐ Implications for South Africa

The Economics of Earmarked Taxes

The Economics of Earmarked Taxes