Strategies for Industrial Development
Overview of Apartheid & Post-Apartheid Industrial Development
Strategies
Apartheid era in South Africa
● 1980s government kept black people out main centres
● Created black national states, homelands
● System : black people apply passes to work and stay temporarily in main centres
● Poverty in homelands became wide spread
● Overcrowding & unemployment posing massive problem in homelands, government developed
regional development plans
● Achieved by growth points in homelands
● Good Hope Plan : workers work at growth point industries & remain living in homelands
● Main aims apartheid governemt to decentralise industrial development - Deconcentration points
● Government offered various incentives : tax rebates, assistance with set-up & relocation costs
● Strategies not successful :
Infrastructure not adequate, difficult attracts sufficient skilled labour
Post-Apartheid South Africa
● Since 1994 post-apartheid government supported development of manufacturing sector -
Industrial Centeralisation
● Policies aimed making industries more productive, more efficients & more competitive
● Focus equal distribution of industries
● Influenced spatial development, landscape, infrastructure & provision of services
● More growth, jobs & development
Overview of Apartheid & Post-Apartheid Industrial Development
Strategies
Apartheid era in South Africa
● 1980s government kept black people out main centres
● Created black national states, homelands
● System : black people apply passes to work and stay temporarily in main centres
● Poverty in homelands became wide spread
● Overcrowding & unemployment posing massive problem in homelands, government developed
regional development plans
● Achieved by growth points in homelands
● Good Hope Plan : workers work at growth point industries & remain living in homelands
● Main aims apartheid governemt to decentralise industrial development - Deconcentration points
● Government offered various incentives : tax rebates, assistance with set-up & relocation costs
● Strategies not successful :
Infrastructure not adequate, difficult attracts sufficient skilled labour
Post-Apartheid South Africa
● Since 1994 post-apartheid government supported development of manufacturing sector -
Industrial Centeralisation
● Policies aimed making industries more productive, more efficients & more competitive
● Focus equal distribution of industries
● Influenced spatial development, landscape, infrastructure & provision of services
● More growth, jobs & development
