Manufacturing in South Africa over the last decade: a review of industrial performance and policy

This article outlines South Africa's comparative industrial performance over approximately the last two decades. It then examines the policies effected by the Department of Trade and Industry since 1994 to promote the development of industry. The focus is on the sector‐specific supports available to the auto and auto components and the clothing and textiles sectors. The final section locates these sector‐specific support measures within a broader discussion of industrial policy.     

惊慕南非坐标 经纬好望角,面具木雕和非洲雄狮

南非有小欧洲之誉。旅游天堂的首都开普敦,就像伸向大西洋的温情臂弯,让南非得到了蓝色大海的抚慰。南非著名的好望角,在300年前,是欧洲列强的海上补给站,往来于欧洲和亚洲之间的船只,都在好望角停歇。如今,许多地方的开发项目,以破坏环境作为代价,但开普敦     

The development of medical consumerism in South Africa

Private medical practice is increasingly perceived as an entrepreneurial activity by private patients. Accordingly, enlightened and assertive medical consumers can be expected to demand satisfaction in exchange for their health‐care purchases. Vociferous patients, reacting to dissatisfaction and inequities, may launch an association as a countervailing force to the powerful doctors’ associations. Structural imbalances and the sophisticated yet critical nature of medical care have hitherto precluded the existence of medical consumerism. However, in an environment of individual and community sovereignty, such a force is imminent where adversarial doctor‐patient relationships develop, or where patients’ rights are infringed. Once this force has been established, its influence will spread to public health care, especially when patients believe their basic rights are being infringed. This article, therefore, enlightens practitioners and National Health Service providers on the possible areas of conflict.     

The estimation of intra-industry trade in South Africa

This article uses recently released data to analyse the nature of trade between South Africa and the world. Two variations of the Grubel-Lloyd index are calculated, and they reveal that South Africa has predictably low levels of intra-industry trade among the primary product chapters, as well as low overall levels of intra-industry trade. It is only in certain manufacturing chapters (eg clothing and textiles) that the level of intra-industry trade is generally higher. There is, however, a very definite upward trend in the overall level of intra-industry trade manifested at all levels.