South African Corporations and post- Apartheid Expansion in Africa – creating a new regional space

Miller, Darlene; Saunders, Robert A.; Oloyede, Olajide

doi:10.4314/asr.v12i1.43517

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“…29 25 Standard Bank recently acquired 90 per cent of Uganda Commercial Bank, while in 2007 the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China paid US$5.5 billion for a 20 per cent stake in Standard Bank, which in 2009 then secured a club loan from five Chinese banks for US$1 billion (Hall 2011b, 13). 26 See also on Shoprite in Zambia, Miller (2008); and on South African investment in the region, Miller et al (2008), and in Africa more generally, Southall (2008). 27 'In Zambia, the presence of South African supermarket management at SADC trade negotiations often outweighs that of Zambia's foreign trade contingent' (Abrahams 2009, 132).…”

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Commercial Agriculture inSouthAfrica since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’

Bernstein

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The paper provides a survey of commercial agriculture in South Africa since 1994. It emphasizes, first, how effectively ‘organized agriculture’ positioned itself for the new dispensation, with the help of the last apartheid government, and, second, the importance of the removal of limits on the international mobility of South African capital and commodities imposed on the apartheid regime. The lacunae and ambiguities of the African National Congress concerning land and agricultural policy during the political transition of 1990–4 and since then in government are also important here. The paper considers ‘transformation(s)’ with respect to farm labour, regulating agribusiness, and land reform, black farming, and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE, specifically AgriBEE). It concludes that the course of South African agriculture and agricultural policy since 1994 has done little, if anything, to ‘transform’ the circumstances of the dispossessed – rural and urban classes of labour – whose crises of social reproduction remain grounded in the inheritances of racialized inequality.

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“…See also on Shoprite in Zambia, Miller (); and on South African investment in the region, Miller et al. (), and in Africa more generally, Southall ().…”

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Commercial Agriculture inSouthAfrica since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’

Bernstein

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…apartheid was both symptomatic of and would hasten the realization of an African supermarket revolution (Miller et al 2008). Third, dietary change led by Africa's growing middle class was providing a massive new consumer market that only supermarkets were equipped to meet.…”

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The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia

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Crush²,

Wagner³

2017

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“…It has been observed that South African retail companies such as Wimpy (fast food), Engen (service station), Kwikserve (mini-supermarket), Woolworths (food and clothing), Game (general merchandise) and the huge regional multinational food retailer, Shoprite-Checkers (food supermarket), are building on regional economies of scale to penetrate regional markets with a host of new consumer goods and services sourced primarily from South Africa (Miller, 2008;Miller, Saunders and Oloyede, 2008;SARB, 2012).…”

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The odyssey of South African multinational corporations (MNCs) and their impact on the Southern African development community (SADC)

Egu¹,

Aregbeshola²

2017

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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It has been observed that the pressures of globalisation and the lure for increased profitability have continued to motivate South African multinational companies (MNCs) to invest across international borders, especially in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Furthermore, the deliberate policy to integrate the region has necessitated most of the governments of the SADC to encourage their largest companies to invest within the region, in order to tap from improved incentives created by the regional economic integration arrangement. Using both aggregate and firm level dataset from various sources between the period 1980 and 2011 in various econometric estimations, this study uncovers that there is correlation between the value of South African MNCs' contribution to regional economic development and investment in the SADC. The main results from this study shows that South African MNCs contributes positively to regional economic development and investment in the region. Similarly, the findings of this study indicate that South Africa-originated MNCs operation within the region triggers the growth of the cumulative GDP of this region. The causality test affirmed the statistical significance of these relationships, and also ensured that spurious correlations did not impede the econometric estimation procedure.

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South African Corporations and post- Apartheid Expansion in Africa – creating a new regional space

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Cited by 13 publications

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Commercial Agriculture inSouthAfrica since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’

Commercial Agriculture inSouthAfrica since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’

The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia

The odyssey of South African multinational corporations (MNCs) and their impact on the Southern African development community (SADC)

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