RURAL HANDICRAFT PRODUCTION IN MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA: ORGANIZATION, PROBLEMS AND SUPPORT NEEDS
RURAL HANDICRAFT PRODUCTION IN MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA: ORGANIZATION, PROBLEMS AND SUPPORT NEEDS
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南非姆普马兰加省的农村手工艺品生产：组织、问题和支持需求
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2001
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P. Sithole
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C. Rogerson;P. Sithole
摘要 农村手工艺品是一种劳动密集型经济活动，在种族隔离后的南非受到越来越多的关注。本文对普马兰加省农村手工业生产者团体的组织、运作和发展潜力进行了调查。提出了三个讨论部分。首先，普马兰加省的研究被置于整个南非农村手工业发展的更广泛背景下。其次，从省级和地方发展支持举措的角度探讨了案例研究地区农村手工业生产者不断变化的政策环境。在此背景下，最后一部分分析了农村手工业经济的问题和运作方式，介绍了普马兰加省农村案例研究中 60 次详细访谈的结果。结论是，乡村手工业企业是旅游相关SMME（小型、中型和微型企业）的一种形式。尽管他们的核心问题反映了整个南非小企业经济所面临的问题，但男性木雕工和女性草编织工群体之间仍存在重要差异。
ABSTRACT Rural handicrafts is a labour-intensive economic activity that is receiving increased attention in post-apartheid South Africa. In this paper an investigation is undertaken into the organization, workings and developmental potential of groups of rural handicraft producers in Mpumalanga province. Three sections of discussion are presented. First, the Mpumalanga study is placed within a wider context of the development of rural handicrafts in South Africa as a whole. Second, the changing policy environment for rural handicraft producers in the case study region is explored in terms of provincial and local development support initiatives. Against this backdrop, the final section analyses the problems and workings of the rural handicrafts economy, presenting the findings from 60 detailed interviews in a rural Mpumalanga case study. It is concluded that rural handicraft enterprises are a form of tourism-linked SMME (small, medium and micro-enterprise). Although their core problems mirror those facing the small enterprise economy in South Africa as a whole, important variations are observed between groups of male wood carvers and women grass weavers.