Christian M. Rogerson - Geography and Economy in South Africa and its Neighbours

Edited by
Anthony Lemon
School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
Christian M. Rogerson
Geography Department, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Geography and economy in South Africa and its neighbours.
(Urban and regional planning and development)
1.South Africa - Economic conditions - 1991- 2. Africa,
Southern - Economic conditions - 1994
I.Lemon, Anthony II.Rogerson, C. M. (Christian Myles)
330.9'68'065

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Geography and economy in South Africa and its neighbours / edited by Anthony Lemon
and Christian M. Rogerson.
p. cm. (Urban and regional planning and development series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-1868-4
1. South Africa--Economic conditions--1991- 2. Africa, Southern--Economic
conditions--Case studies. I. Lemon, Anthony. II. Rogerson, C. M. (Christian Myles) III.
Urban and regional planning and development

HC905 .G467 2002
330.968--dc21

2002018636

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-1868-3 (hbk)

Patrick Bond is a geographer and political economist educated at Johns Hopkins University who is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His books include Unsustainable South Africa (University of Natal and Africa World Press, 2002), Zimbabwe's Plunge (University of Natal, Weaver, Africa World Press and Merlin, 2002), Against Global Apartheid (University of Cape Town, 2001), Elite Transition (Pluto Press, 2001), Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal (Africa World Press), and Uneven Zimbabwe (Africa World Press, 1998). In addition to extensive policy drafting and advocacy, his work focuses on discourses associated with movements for economic, social and environmental justice, which he serves through the Municipal Services Project ( www.queensu.ca/msp ), the Alternative Information and Development Centre ( www.aidc.org.za ) and the Center for Economic Justice ( www.worldbankboycott.org ). He has held visiting professorships at York University (Canada) and Yokohama National University, was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and worked for several years in two Johannesburg NGOs.

Paul Crankshaw is the founder and publisher of African Mining , South Africa's leading business-to-business magazine for the mining industry. He is also managing director of Johannesburg-based Brooke Patrick Publications (Pty) Ltd, which publishes African Mining and other mining-, construction- and infrastructure-related journals. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes University and Honours and Masters degrees in Development Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently based in the UK, where he runs Brooke Patrick Publications UK and is responsible for the company's business development in the UK and Europe.

Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh is Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Botswana. He is an economic geographer whose research interests include environment and sustainable development, land degradation and desertification, industrial location and manufacturing in developing countries. He has published extensively and his books include Tanzania's Growth Centres (Peter Lang, 1994), African River Basins and Dryland Crises (Uppsala University and OSSREA, 1992) and Combating Desertification in the Southern African Region (UNEP, 1989). His most recent book is an edited reader on Human Impact on Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (Ashgate, 2000).

Richard Gibb is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Plymouth, England. His research interests focus on regional economic and political integration, with a particular focus on southern Africa and the European Union. His latest research examines southern Africa's trading relationships with the EU under the Cotonou Agreement and the South Africa-EU Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement. He is coauthor (with Mark Wise) of Single Market to Social Europe (Longman, 1993) and co-editor (with W.Z, Michalek) of Continental Trading Blocs: the Growth of Regionalism in the World Economy (John Wiley, 1994).

Graham Harrison lectures in politics at the University of Sheffield. He has made repeated research visits to Mozambique since the mid-1990s, publishing in the Review of African Political Economy, Democratization, and the Third World Quarterly. He has also written a book on The Politics of Democratisation in Rural Mozambique. His other research interests include the World Bank, administrative reform in Uganda and Tanzania, and the political economy of development. He is editor of the Review of African Political Economy and New Political Economy.

Meshack Khosa holds a D. Phil. from Oxford University and an MA from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has taught urban studies at the University of Natal, Durban and was Global Security Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 1995. He subsequently worked for the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria, latterly as research director of the Democracy and Governance Group, and is now Director of the MTN Foundation. He has published extensively on aspects of transport policy, the taxi industry, land reform, health restructuring and regionalism in South Africa, and edited several books for the HSRC.

Anthony Lemon is University Lecturer in the School of Geography and Environment, Oxford University and a Fellow of Mansfield College. He has held visiting lectureships and research fellowships at the Universities of Natal, Rhodes, Zimbabwe, Cape Town, Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch. He has a longstanding research interest in the geography of apartheid and post-apartheid restructuring, on which he has published extensively. He is author of Apartheid: a Geography of Separation (Saxon House, 1976) and Apartheid in Transition (Gower, 1987), and has edited Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities (Paul Chapman, David Philip and Indiana University Press, 1990) and The Geography of Change in South Africa (John Wiley, 1995). He also co-edited, with Norman Pollock, Studies in Overseas Settlement and Population (Longman, 1980). His current research interests centre on desegregation and redistribution in post-apartheid education.

Charles Mather is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research interests focus on the restructuring of South African agriculture after apartheid and he has published several pieces on the relationship between agricultural restructuring and rural livelihoods and farm labour. He is currently involved in a detailed project of South African citrus exports after deregulation.