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Authors: Mbatha, Cyril N , Antrobus, Geoffrey G , Van Rooyen, Jonathan
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142980 , vital:38182 , DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2010.491298
Description: The desire to transfer 30 per cent of commercial farmland into the hands of black South Africans has progressed slower than anticipated. Politicians and government officials have blamed the market approach to the purchase of land for the challenges and failures in the process. An analysis of the transfer of sugarcane land in two districts in KwaZulu-Natal over the period 2000 to 2006 permitted a comparison of the prices paid to commercial farmers both in private transactions and in the case of sales to government. Data did not support the contention that the slow rate of transfer was due to a manipulation of land prices by landowners in an attempt to stall the process. It was concluded that the state lost most of its bargaining power in the land reform market due to the drawn out nature of the land valuation processes.
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Authors: Antrobus, Geoffrey G , Fraser, Gavin C G
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143067 , vital:38198 , DOI: 10.1080/03031853.1994.9524779
Description: Selected cases in developing entrepreneurship in small-scale subsistence and commercial agriculture in the Eastern Cape are examined, including the provision of marketing facilities, the training programme of the Africa Cooperative Action Trust (ACAT) in Ciskei, government sponsored irrigation projects and the farmer support programme. An attempt is made to draw general conclusions about the necessary ingredients for successful entrepreneurship and the formulation of proposals for further promoting entrepreneurship in agriculture in South Africa.
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Date Issued: 2010

Authors: Mowat, Shaun P , Antrobus, Geoffrey G , Fraser, Gavin C G
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143057 , vital:38197 , DOI: 10.1080/03031853.1997.9523487
Description: Pollution of the environment is becoming an increasingly serious problem. A large contributor to this is industry which generates effluent as a by-product of its production process. Two methods of controlling the pollution generated by industry are the so-called “command and control” techniques and economic incentives. In theory, economic incentives promise a more economically efficient and equitable means of pollution control. This paper sets out to ascertain whether this would hold in practice by applying environmental economic theory to the practical problem of controlling the effluent generated by one particular industry, viz the South African leather industry.
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Authors: Marsh, Julian S
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145000 , vital:38399 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2010.02.012
Description: Phonolites of Palaeogene age occur at two different localities in central Namibia, occurring as clusters of eroded monogenetic lava domes. Six phonolites at Aris collectively exhibit a narrow compositional range and represent a single magma system of highly evolved phonolite with high concentrations of Na2O, Rb, Th, Zr, Zn, Pb, and REE and very low abundances of MgO, P2O5, Sr and Ba. No mafic rocks are associated with the Aris phonolites and their ultimate petrogenetic origin remains obscure. The more abundant Staalhart phonolites exhibit more variable but scattered compositional variation consistent with fractional crystallization dominated by sanidine (and nepheline) and pyroxene. The behaviour of REE is decoupled from Zr, Nb, and Th in this suite indicating a controlling role for minor phases in their evolution. The least evolved phonolites have initial 87Sr/86Sr 0.7043, which is identical to a small occurrence of associated plagioclase-bearing nephelinite indicating a possible petrogenetic link.
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Authors: Antrobus, Geoffrey G
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143090 , vital:38200 , DOI: 10.1080/03031853.1979.9524558
Description: The importance of the middlemen of marketing was recently high-lighted with the publication of a thirty item 'food basket' for South Africa. While the producer's share of the foodbasket is usually of chief interest to the farmers of our country and often to agricultural economists, the field of traditional agricultural marketing takes in the whole area from farm gate to consumer's table.
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Date Issued: 2010

Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
Date: 2003
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161442 , vital:40627 , https://doi.org/10.1080/0258934032000147291
Description: As a pluralist middle power, post-apartheid South Africa seeks to generate successful foreign policy initiatives at bilateral, multilateral and regional levels in order to shape international outcomes. In this endeavour, it has three important political resources – a recognition of its geo-political position and importance as a democratic yardstick and reformer; its acceptance of a transnational, neo-liberal elite alliance and finally, recognition of its leadership role from forces wishing to challenge African political establishments. However, the international and domestic political environment which in the mid-1990s was favourable towards middle-power initiative and reform has narrowed.
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Date Issued: 2003

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