Manufacturing in South Africa has undergone major restructuring following the dismantling of the systems of regulation, protection and industry support of the apartheid regime. The outcomes were not as expected, as capital-intensive heavy industries have continued to perform well while most manufacturing has struggled to come to terms with globalisation. As an industrialising country, South Africa is at a critical juncture, with worsening mass unemployment raising major questions over the sustainability of its development trajectory. This volume assesses the policies, outcomes and implications of the developments at the national level through a key focus on the East Rand, now covered by Ekurhuleni Metro. The book includes analyses by leading economic historians, geographers and sociologists, along with economists, to trace the impacts on this region and place it in the wider context of the challenges facing South Africa, including HIV/AIDS and black economic empowerment.
List of contributors
• Foreword by the Minister of Public Enterprise, Alec Erwin
• Foreword by the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni, Duma Nkosi
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Section 1:
National policies and patterns of manufacturing development
• Promoting competitiveness and equity in a complex environment
• Small and medium manufacturing in South Africa: constraints
and opportunities
• Promoting the growth and development of economic linkages arising from mineral-based activities in South Africa
• Technological change for local economic growth and development
• Trading and training: large manufacturing firms in the greater Durban
metropolitan area
• Section 2: Restructuring and change in manufacturing in Ekurhuleni
• Economy and society on the East Rand in the 20th century
• From national industrial workshop to ‘rustbelt’? Restructuring the manufacturing economy of Ekurhuleni, 1980–1999
• Addressing the apartheid industrial legacy: local economic development and industrial policy in South Africa
•The apartheid city: patterns of industrial and residential development in Ekurhuleni
•Encouraging downstream value-added and labour-intensive growth?
The case of the metal products sector
• Value chains, market power and competitiveness:
Understanding the performance of the plastics sector
• Section 3: Further issues of sustainable manufacturing
• What happened to Kelvinator?
The road from Alrode to Ezakheni and Matsapha
• Sustainable manufacturing and HIV/AIDS: company responses and the South African workplace
• Private procurement and the development of black SMMEs in Ekurhuleni
• The human costs of ‘shock treatment’ industrial policy: evidence from the South African textile and footwear sectors
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