{"title":"The history of exchange controls in South Africa","authors":"R.M. Gidlow","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511143","url":null,"abstract":"One of the duties of the South African Reserve Bank is to administer a system of extensive exchange controls on behalf of the Treasury. In other words, the formulation of exchange control policies in South Africa is in the hands of the Treasury, while the administration of these controls is handed over to the Reserve Bank. The time span of exchange controls in South Africa can be subdivided into two periods.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"8 1","pages":"25 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74362457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of the gold standard crisis on the foreign exchange business of Barclays Bank (DCO) in South Africa","authors":"Estranell Lübbe","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511145","url":null,"abstract":"Great Britain officially abandoned the gold standard on 20 September 1931. As the South African economy was closely linked to that of Britain, it was generally assumed that South Africa would follow suit. The South African government, however, decided to remain on the gold standard. The decision to adhere to the gold standard while the majority of the world's economies abandoned it, caused immediate problems for South Africa. One of the areas most affected by South Africa's adherence to the gold standard, was foreign exchange.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"75 1","pages":"104 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80496346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agricultural development policies of Ethiopia since 1957","authors":"Z. Alemu, L. Oosthuizen, H. D. van Schalkwyk","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511142","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is the backbone of the Ethiopian economy. It constitutes over 50 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), accounts for over 85 per cent of the labour force and earns over 90 per cent of the foreign exchange. Studies on agricultural development policies of Ethiopia are very few. A frequently quoted article, which is one of the basic reference materials in this study, is the article by Dejene.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"9 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88457870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obituary","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"88 1","pages":"182 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77995951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The decline of the South African economy 1980–2000","authors":"Stuart Jones","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511144","url":null,"abstract":"Private enterprise has been the cause of growth in the developed economies of the West. Admittedly, after 1945, a variety of socialist governments began to interfere more frequently in the workings of the market, from the Peron regime in Argentina to British groundnut schemes in east Africa, but the momentum of growth was so strong in the third quarter of the century that semi-socialist regimes were born along on the tide of expansion.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"58 1","pages":"49 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74027575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A history of the London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Company in South Africa","authors":"Robert W. Vivian","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511147","url":null,"abstract":"In 1975 the London & Lancashire Insurance Company of South Africa Limited was deregistered and passed into history largely unnoticed by the South African insurance industry despite the fact that, in its heyday, it was originally one of the most famous and respected names of the great Victorian insurance era. The 1862 founding of the company in Britain coincided with the formation of the first South African London-based banks.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"13 1","pages":"138 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89535175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genrec: A business history of individual entrepreneurial spirit in the construction industry","authors":"G. Verhoef","doi":"10.1080/10113430109511138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430109511138","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of emerging economies often rely on the entrepreneurial spirit of individuals to take the risk of new businesses and break new ground in enterprise. South Africa experienced similar entrepreneurial braveries in the course of the development of the economy from an agricultural based to a mining and subsequently an industrial economy. In South Africa the construction industry developed slowly on the back of the emerging mining industry and excelled when manufacturing benefited from policies of industrial promotion.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"73 1","pages":"189 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75439032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence on the South African economy of the gold mining industry 1925–2000","authors":"Jocelyn A. Bell","doi":"10.1080/10113430109511132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430109511132","url":null,"abstract":"The year 1925 was a watershed one for the South African gold mining industry. After the trauma of the \"Rand Rebellion\" in 1922, in which the White labour on the mines fought against the desire of the mining houses to promote the advancement of Black workers, there had been a period of uneasy industrial peace. However, in 1924 a National Party/Labour Party coalition under the leadership of General J.M.B. Hertzog and Colonel F.H.P. Creswell, had been elected.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"20 1","pages":"29 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75147372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The governors and deputy governors of the South African Reserve Bank 1921–2001","authors":"P. Mohr","doi":"10.1080/10113430109511135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430109511135","url":null,"abstract":"On 8 August 1999 Mr Tito Mboweni became the eighth governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). This constituted a major break with tradition. The previous governors had all been experienced bankers, either outside or inside the SARB, before becoming governor. By contrast, Mboweni, essentially a politician, only served a year's \"apprenticeship\" at the SARB prior to assuming office. This article traces the profiles of the governors and deputy governors of the SARB from 1921 to 2001.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"241 1","pages":"101 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75896068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation in the external trade of South Africa 1925–2000","authors":"Stuart Jones","doi":"10.1080/10113430109511134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430109511134","url":null,"abstract":"The most striking feature of South Africa's external trade in the last three quarters of the twentieth century is its rapid growth in current prices. In 1925 total trade amounted to $157, 1 million (R314, 1 million). By 1999 this has increased to R310 042, 7 million. Much of this growth was the result of price changes. Between 1925 and 1999 consumer prices rose approximately 70-fold.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"11 1","pages":"100 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80148970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}