Critical analysis of Modimolle local municipality labour-intensive projects (2002-2007)
II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV TABLE OF CONTENTS V LIST OF FIGURES XIII LIST OF TABLES XIV ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS AND GLOSSARY XV CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 BACKGROUND AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1 1.2 LABOUR–INTENSIVE CONSTRUCTION 2 1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY AND METHODOLOGY 3 1.3.1 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 3
The Main Findings of the District Pilot Project of Labour-Intensive Road Construction and Maintenance in Botswana and the Implications for Similar Projects in South Africa
Unemployment has been identified as one of the main problems confronting South Africa. Recently, in order to improve rural infrastructure and create employment, several pilot projects of rural road construction have been initiated in South Africa. In such a context it is considered that attention should be drawn to a pilot project carried out some time ago in Botswana to examine the potential of labour‐intensive methods in the construction and maintenance of rural roads. The main conclusion of the pilot project was that labour‐intensive methods were viable, although attention had to be paid to several critical factors. In 1982, following its evaluation of the pilot project, the Government of Botswana decided that over the next five years the technical and organisational methods developed during the pilot project should be replicated throughout Botswana. After a brief survey of the background to the project, the paper summarises several important features of the pilot project and its main findings. The pap...
Unemployment: The role of the public sector in increasing the labour absorption capacity of the South African economy
The critical proportions of unemployment and the mainly structural nature of the problem necessitate a re‐evaluation of policy measures in order to foster a pro‐poor growth and development process in South Africa. The propblem could be addressed by implementing an integrated and comprehensive policy package. The public sector expenditure programme is a potent policy measure for stimulating employment growth in the economy. It is argued that a restructuring rather than an expansion of the public sector expenditure programme can result in short‐term, enduring employment effects. The restructured public sector expenditure programme should include characteristics of special employment programmes, focusing on the procurement and provision of more labour‐intensive goods and services and a reorientation of expenditure programmes in favour of the unemployed and the poor.