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The industrialisation debate in SA – what are the lessons?

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Manufacturing has been in slow decline in the past decade or so. The sector has always been treated as a useful link between mining and higher-value beneficiation. Light and heavy industrialisation were, and in some respects still are, at the core of South Africa's industrial base. Before the dawn of democracy, sanctions imposed on the apartheid regime by the international committee led to military industrialisation, which became an additional key component of the industrial base in South Africa. The State was the leading agent of carving the industrial pathway.
 
 
 
 
 

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