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First published in 1996 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. and Westview Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fine, Ben.

The political economy of South Africa: From minerals-energy

complex to industrialisation / Ben Fine, Zavareh Rustomjee,

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN 0-8133-2789-X. -- ISBN 0-8133-2790-3

1. South Africa -- Economic conditions. 2. South Africa-- Economic

policy. I. Rustomjee, Zavareh, II. Title
HC905.F561996
338.968--dc2096-19858

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-2790-7 (pbk)

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AAC	Anglo American Corporation
ABSA	Amalgamated Banks of South Africa
AECI	African Explosives and Chemical Industries
AMCOAL	Anglo American Coal Corporation
AMGOLD	Anglo American Gold Corporation
AMIC	Anglo American Industrial Corporation
Anglovaal	Anglo-Transvaal Group
Alusaf	Aluminium Development Corporation of South Africa
Armscor	Armaments Corporation of South Africa
BTI	Board of Trade and Industries
CEAS	Central Economic Advisory Service
CSIR	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
EO	export-oriented
Escom	Electricity Supply Commission
ESRs	effective subsidy rates
Fedvolks	Federale Volksbeleggings
Foskor	Phosphorus Corporation of South Africa
GDFI	gross domestic fixed investment
Gencor	General Mining and Union Corporation
Genmin	General Mining Corporation
GFSA	Gold Fields of South Africa
HCI	heavy and chemical industries
IDC	Industrial Development Corporation
Iscor	Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa
ISI	Import-substituting industrialisation
ISIC	International Standard Industrial Classification
ISP	Industrial Strategy Project
JCI	Johannesburg Consolidated Investment
JSE	Johannesburg Stock Exchange
MEC	minerals-energy complex
NBS	Natal Building Society
NFC	National Finance Corporation
NICs	newly industrialised countries
NP	National Party
OFS	Orange Free State
PIC	Public Investment Commission
PWV	PretoriaWitwatersrandVereeniging
SAICCOR	South African Industrial Cellulose Corporation
Sanlam	South African National Life Assurance Company
SARB	South African Reserve Bank
Sasol	South African Coal, Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd
TCOA	Transvaal Coal Owners Association
TNC	Trans Natal Coal
UBS	United Building Society
Ucor	Uranium Enrichment Corporation
VFTPC	Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company

Research for this book was funded from October 1990 to October 1992 by the UK Economic and Social Research Council under grant R000232411 to study the South African minerals-energy complex and the capital goods sector. But the books history runs longer and deeper than the term of funding. For one author it began in the mid-1980s when he was asked on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC) to assess and make policy recommendations for the South African mining and energy sectors. These recommendations emerged as discussion papers under the now defunct group Economic Research on South Africa. For the other author, the second half of the 1980s, when he was directly experiencing the role of the MEC through his work as a chemical engineer in South Africa, was the crucial time.

Our paths crossed and eventually ran together in order to undertake this research, which began at Birkbeck College, University of London, and then removed to the newly-founded Centre for Economic Policy for Southern Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, also part of the University of London. Throughout this time we have continued to have close working relations with the South African democratic movement, with one of us acting as a contributor to the Industrial Strategy Project supported by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the other as a contributing editor to the Macroeconomic Research Group report, Making Democracy Work , and both of us serving in an advisory capacity at various times to the ANCs Department of Economic Planning. Once again, our paths have now taken their separate courses: one of us is continuing as an academic with strong ties to Southern Africa and the democratic movement while the other has served as policy adviser to the new South African Minister of Trade and Industry, before appointment as Director-General for Trade and Industry.

Throughout our collaboration, daily and close at hand or less frequently and at a distance, we have benefitted from critical support from a host of colleagues and friends, whether they be attached to the institutions listed above or otherwise. Special thanks to John Sender, who commented on the whole manuscript, and to the originating publishers, Hurst and Co. Others are too numerous to list. We dedicate this book to them and the spirit of debate that they have inspired. Hopefully this spirit will continue and even intensify, as it must if political economy is to make a lasting contribution to the effective formulation of policies necessary to meet the basic needs and economic empowerment of the majority of South Africans.

B EN F INE
Z AV R USTOMJEE

London, 1995

1
Introduction and Overview

The research and first drafts for this book were undertaken as the apartheid regime was undergoing what ultimately turned out to be its final political death throes. At each stage up to the election itself in April 1994, potentially insurmountable obstacles appeared to stand in the way of the election, not the least of which was threat of non-participation and intensified violence from Inkatha in the last few weeks of campaigning. In the event, the electoral process was completed and a remarkable political transition has been realised. Whatever the consequences may be for the longer-term material well-being of the majority of the population, now enfranchised, the extent of political change could hardly have been anticipated a few years ago even by those who reasonably, if cynically, question the degree to which there have been fundamental shifts in economic power.

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