Economic Geography Of South Africa Flashcards
(22 cards)
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
Good Hope Plan
1981
- to spread economic wealth in South Africa
- led to the geographic regions that make up our nine regions
- de-concentration points created (Atlantis in the Cape) and isolated development points identifies (De Aar)
- tax incentives to encourage industries to move to these areas
- border industries created on the borders of homelands
RDP
Reconstruction and development plan
1994
- improve the quality of life
- focused on redistributing wealth, improved health care, create jobs and provide basic services such as water and electricity, land reforms, education and training
- aimed at local development
SDI
Spatial Development Initiatives
1995
- identified eleven underdeveloped corridors
- attract foreign investors and allow for economic growth
- Disadvantaged communities in the corridors would benefit from the growth
- attempt to decentralize industries
- Develops the secondary economy with value added and high-tech products
IDZ
Industrial Development Zones
2001
- Specialise industrial zone found in an SDI
- Export driven industries
- Located close to harbours and airports
GEAR
Growth, Employment and redistribution
1996
- Macro economic policy
- Focused on growth, employment and redistribution of wealth and eradicate poverty
- Designed to attract foreign investors
- Focused on the country as a whole
Associated and shared growth in South Africa
AsgiSA
2006
- Macro development plan
- halve poverty and unemployment by 2014
The National Development Plan
- Eliminate poverty and inequality by 2030
- Good night South Africans and unleashing the energy of its citizens, building capabilities and working together
