Agritourism and local economic development in South Africa

The Evolution of Local Economic Development in South Africa – the Case of Stutterheim and Social Capital

Addressing the apartheid industrial legacy: local economic development and industrial policy in South Africa

It is well established that there are collective economic gains that can be realised from local industrial agglomerations. These gains arise from labour market pooling, knowledge and information flows, collective learning and shared business services. Realising the potential gains requires collective action, often facilitated by government and other public institutions. Recent economic policy i...

Local Economic Development: a Review Assessment of Its Current Status in South Africa

In recent years Local Economic Development (LED) has become a widely practised development strategy in the countries of the North at both the local government and community levels. LED is less widely implemented in the South where, in most instances, it appears to still be in an incipient phase. This paper investigates the current status of LED in South Africa, where, over the last decade, loca...

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa

We examine the relationship between crime and local economic welfare in South Africa. Unlike previous studies, which use a much larger unit of analysis, we utilize data from 1066 police station jurisdictions. We find that inequality is strongly correlated with both property crime and violent crime. Once controls for the opportunity cost and benefits of crime participation are introduced, this c...