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Title:Ethnic business and economic empowerment: the Afrikaner case, 1915-1970
Author:Giliomee, HermannISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:South African Journal of Economics
Volume:76
Issue:4
Pages:765-788
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:entrepreneurs
Afrikaners
government policy
External link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00215.x/pdf
Abstract:The struggle for racial or ethnic group worth is an important sociopolitical issue in societies where a minority ethnic group, like the English-speaking whites in South Africa or the Chinese in Malaysia, dominates the economy but not the political system. There are two routes to the empowerment of an economically backward group. In the Afrikaner case, economic mobilization formed part of a general ethnic mobilization. While the Afrikaner-controlled State after 1948 massively aided all whites, Afrikaner business increased its market share through serving a niche market. It received little ethnic patronage from the State or assistance from English corporations. A quite different form of advancement is that driven by the State, which imposes on large corporations the obligation to promote the economic empowerment of a racial group. While the first form facilitated the rise of the ethnic group as a whole, the latter one benefited mainly a business and middle class elite that may remain dependent on continuing State support. Bibliogr., note, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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