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Industrial Decentralisation and the Dynamics of Forced Labour in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Timothy Belcher
Timothy Belcher
Affiliation:
Labor Relations and Research Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst1
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In the 1950s the South African Government developed a broad strategy aimed at maintaining the supply of forced labour, named apartheid or ‘separate development’. Much more than a system of segregation, the programme involved moving large numbers of Africans from the urban centres into the underdeveloped Reserves, comprising 14 per cent of the least arable land in South Africa. Industry would then be shifted to the borders of these Bantustans. This last element of the scheme, the policy of industrial decentralisation, has been the main instrument for providing income to Africans in the rural areas. By examining this element in South African state planning, within the context of the apartheid system as a whole, I have tried to isolate some of the crucial dynamics of forced labour.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 677 - 686
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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