Economic Geography Of South Africa Flashcards
GDP
Gross domestic product
Income earned from goods and services in a country in a year
GGP
Gross Geographic Product
The provincial contribution to the country’s GDP
Economic sector
The management of various resources and activities that people in a country may be involve in, in order to create wealth
Primary
Activities that Involve extraction and exploitation of raw materials from the natural environment
Secondary
Process and raw materials into products required by the consumer
Tertiary
Activities that provide services to distribution of commodities to businesses and consumers
- Not included in the gross domestic product breakdown of the economy
Subsistence
Small amount of land used to sustain oneself and family or close community
Commercial
Large amount of land extensively used for profit
Small-scale farmers or market Gardener
If all know who has a small but economically viable amount of land which is intensively and profitably farmed
Value added products
Basically resource or material made into product for sale
Beneficiation
Or value-added processing, involves the transformation of a primary material (produced by mining and extraction processes) to a more finished product, which has a higher export sales value
PWV-Gauteng
(Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging)
- Iron, steel
- Thermal power
- Automotive industries
- Chemical industries
- Metal industries
- Ubiquitous and footloose industries
Durban-Pinetown
- sugar refining
- Bananas, avocados, pineapples, cashew nuts
- coal export
- aluminum industry
Port Elizabeth- Uitenhage
- car industry
- automotive component industry
- textiles, leather, wool
- Cerebos salt
South Western Cape
- Wine
- fruit juice
- canned fruit
- textiles and clothing
- frozen and fresh fruit
- petrol refineries
