Towards New Income-Generating Models in South Africa: The Case of Dinokana Slate Project

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Title:	Towards New Income-Generating Models in South Africa: The Case of Dinokana Slate Project
Author:	Ntsime, Patrick Thipe
Year:	2004
Periodical:	Africanus
Volume:	34
Issue:	2
Pages:	65-76
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	mining companies small-scale industry sustainable development Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Labor and Employment
Abstract:	South Africa's next ten years should usher in a multitude of gains and prosperity for the impoverished majority of the people. This paper argues for innovative approaches and models which advocate small-scale enterprises built on the notion of sustainable management of natural resources. It points towards a new paradigm shift away from narrow considerations about environmentalist vision for sustainable development, and towards growth-oriented, local economic development, underpinned by a regulated exploitation of natural resources. South Africa's small-scale mining sector is growing relatively fast and will most probably continue to do so. The paper uses the Dinokana Slate Project (near Zeerust, North-West Province) as an example of a project with enormous potential. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]