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1
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GDP

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Gross domestic product

Income earned from goods and services in a country in a year

2
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GGP

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Gross Geographic Product

The provincial contribution to the country’s GDP

3
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Economic sector

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The management of various resources and activities that people in a country may be involve in, in order to create wealth

4
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Primary

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Activities that Involve extraction and exploitation of raw materials from the natural environment

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Secondary

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Process and raw materials into products required by the consumer

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Tertiary

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Activities that provide services to distribution of commodities to businesses and consumers
- Not included in the gross domestic product breakdown of the economy

7
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Subsistence

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Small amount of land used to sustain oneself and family or close community

8
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Commercial

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Large amount of land extensively used for profit

9
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Small-scale farmers or market Gardener

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If all know who has a small but economically viable amount of land which is intensively and profitably farmed

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Value added products

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Basically resource or material made into product for sale

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Beneficiation

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Or value-added processing, involves the transformation of a primary material (produced by mining and extraction processes) to a more finished product, which has a higher export sales value

12
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PWV-Gauteng

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(Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging)

  • Iron, steel
  • Thermal power
  • Automotive industries
  • Chemical industries
  • Metal industries
  • Ubiquitous and footloose industries
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Durban-Pinetown

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  • sugar refining
  • Bananas, avocados, pineapples, cashew nuts
  • coal export
  • aluminum industry
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Port Elizabeth- Uitenhage

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  • car industry
  • automotive component industry
  • textiles, leather, wool
  • Cerebos salt
15
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South Western Cape

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  • Wine
  • fruit juice
  • canned fruit
  • textiles and clothing
  • frozen and fresh fruit
  • petrol refineries
16
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Good Hope Plan

1981

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  • to spread economic wealth in South Africa
  • led to the geographic regions that make up our nine regions
  • de-concentration points created (Atlantis in the Cape) and isolated development points identifies (De Aar)
  • tax incentives to encourage industries to move to these areas
  • border industries created on the borders of homelands
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RDP
Reconstruction and development plan
1994

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  • improve the quality of life
  • focused on redistributing wealth, improved health care, create jobs and provide basic services such as water and electricity, land reforms, education and training
  • aimed at local development
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SDI
Spatial Development Initiatives
1995

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  • identified eleven underdeveloped corridors
  • attract foreign investors and allow for economic growth
  • Disadvantaged communities in the corridors would benefit from the growth
  • attempt to decentralize industries
  • Develops the secondary economy with value added and high-tech products
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IDZ
Industrial Development Zones
2001

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  • Specialise industrial zone found in an SDI
  • Export driven industries
  • Located close to harbours and airports
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GEAR
Growth, Employment and redistribution
1996

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  • Macro economic policy
  • Focused on growth, employment and redistribution of wealth and eradicate poverty
  • Designed to attract foreign investors
  • Focused on the country as a whole
21
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Associated and shared growth in South Africa
AsgiSA
2006

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  • Macro development plan

- halve poverty and unemployment by 2014

22
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The National Development Plan

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  • Eliminate poverty and inequality by 2030

- Good night South Africans and unleashing the energy of its citizens, building capabilities and working together