scholarly journals Special economic zones in Southern Africa: white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? The case of Zambia and South Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mwanda Phiri ◽  
Shimukunku Manchishi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Coordination Failures ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Economic Tools ◽  
Economic Zones

The successful use of special economic zones as economic tools for export-led industrial development in East Asia propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic zones in their respective legal and institutional frameworks in the 2000s as mechanisms for catalysing industrialization and employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate infrastructure financing and provision and weak local supplier capabilities. Special economic zones in Lusaka, Zambia, face similar constraints but are further hampered by inadequate business services provision, burdensome regulations and business procedures, a fragmented incentive framework, institutional coordination failures, and a weak design that does not leverage strategic anchor industries for greater agglomeration economies, thus rendering them more of white elephants.

scholarly journals History of ‘swine fever’ in Southern Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary-Louise Penrith
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
African Swine Fever ◽  
Classical Swine Fever ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
African Region ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of

The histories of the two swine fevers in southern Africa differ widely. Classical swine fever (hog cholera) has been known in the northern hemisphere since 1830 and it is probable that early cases of ‘swine fever’ in European settlers’ pigs in southern Africa were accepted to be that disease. It was only in 1921 that the first description of African swine fever as an entity different from classical swine fever was published after the disease had been studied in settlers’ pigs in Kenya. Shortly after that, reports of African swine fever in settlers’ pigs emerged from South Africa and Angola. In South Africa, the report related to pigs in the north-eastern part of the country. Previously (in 1905 or earlier) a disease assumed to be classical swine fever caused high mortality among pigs in the Western Cape and was only eradicated in 1918. African swine fever was found over the following years to be endemic in most southern African countries. Classical swine fever, however, apart from an introduction with subsequent endemic establishment in Madagascar and a number of introductions into Mauritius, the last one in 2000, had apparently remained absent from the region until it was diagnosed in the Western and subsequently the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 2005. It was eradicated by 2007. The history of these diseases in the southern African region demonstrates their importance and their potential for spread over long distances, emphasising the need for improved management of both diseases wherever they occur.

scholarly journals Hesperoides, a new “hairy” flea beetle genus from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)

2017 ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Biondi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Flea Beetle ◽  
Extensor Tendon ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Republic

Hesperoides afromeridionalis gen. nov. and sp. nov. from the Republic of South Africa (Western and Eastern Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal) is described. Despite some similarities with Hespera Weise, it exhibits major affinities with the genera attributed to the subtribe Aphthonini, especially with Aphthona Chevrolat and Montiaphthona Scherer. Data on distribution are supplied, along with preliminary ecological notes. Photomicrographs of main morphological characters, including male and female genitalia, and metafemoral extensor tendon are provided. Key to the six “hairy” flea beetle genera occurring in sub-Saharan African and their habitus photos are also given.

scholarly journals The Mollusc collections at South African institutions: Development and current status

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (7/8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Cole
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Marine Molluscs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Southwestern Indian Ocean

There are three major mollusc collections in South Africa and seven smaller, thematic collections. The KwaZulu-Natal Museum holds one of the largest collections in the southern hemisphere. Its strengths are marine molluscs of southern Africa and the southwestern Indian Ocean, and terrestrial molluscs of South Africa. Research on marine molluscs has led to revisionary papers across a wide range of gastropod families. The Iziko South African Museum contains the most comprehensive collections of Cephalopoda (octopus, squid and relatives) and Polyplacophora (chitons) for southern Africa. The East London Museum is a provincial museum of the Eastern Cape. Recent research focuses on terrestrial molluscs and the collection is growing to address the gap in knowledge of this element of biodiversity. Mollusc collections in South Africa date to about 1900 and are an invaluable resource of morphological and genetic diversity, with associated spatial and temporal data. The South African National Biodiversity Institute is encouraging discovery and documentation to address gaps in knowledge, particularly of invertebrates. Museums are supported with grants for surveys, systematic studies and data mobilisation. The Department of Science and Innovation is investing in collections as irreplaceable research infrastructure through the Natural Science Collections Facility, whereby 16 institutions, including those holding mollusc collections, are assisted to achieve common targets and coordinated outputs.

Special Economic Zones in South Africa: Reflections from International Debates

Urban Forum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne L. Nel ◽  
Christian M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Economic Zones

Special Economic Zones and Export-led Growth

2020 ◽  
pp. 322-344
Author(s):  
Ludovico Alcorta ◽  
Taffere Tesfachew
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Manufactured Exports ◽  
Economic Zones

The chapter will examine the role of special economic zones (SEZs) as drivers of export-led growth and structural transformation. SEZs and related export processing zones (EPZs) are mechanisms that governments have used to attract investment, create jobs, facilitate technology transfer, promote manufactured exports, and foster industrial development. Developing country governments have established SEZs as a policy choice but their ability to succeed depends on long-term industrial policy objectives, aligning industrial policy instruments such as SEZs with the corresponding stage of industrialization of the country, and the degree of complementarity of SEZs with other industrial policy instruments. After defining SEZs, the chapter will highlight the strategic importance of building productive capacity for exports, more specifically, manufacturing capabilities as a leading long-term development goal. It will then analyse the interrelationship between SEZs and ‘early, ‘middle’ and ‘late’ stages of industrialization. Finally, the chapter will consider alternative ways of combining SEZs with other policy instruments to achieve the desired development goals.

scholarly journals Die Groot Trek en die Kerk

1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Pont
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Free State ◽  
African History ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
The Church

The Great Trek and the Church The emigration of about 15 000 pioneer-farmers from the eastern Cape districts to the interior of Southern Africa, was a definite turning point in South African history. In 1852-1854, which can be regarded as the final date of the Great Trek, there were in South Africa two British colonies i e the Cape and Natal and two Boer republics i e the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. This study traces the history of the church during the emigration and the establishment of the church by the emigrants.

scholarly journals Assessment of the main reasons for the stagnation of territorial development in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (29) ◽  
pp. 254-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anzor V. Misakov ◽  
Anzor Kh. Sabanchiev ◽  
Lola D. Sanginova ◽  
Elena N. Danilevskaya ◽  
Musa A. Eskiev
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
Economic Zones

Globalization, accompanied by a continuous increase in competition, complicates the conditions for the development of market relations in the Russian Federation. The priority development territories should have functioned as a tool for industrial and productive reform. These territories and their special economic zones should have become territorial centers of innovative and industrial development. However, it does not happened. The article analyzes some of the main reasons for this situation in Russia.

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