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Click here for playlist Maps of the regionFactors favouring the development of this regionFactors hindering the development of this regionMain Industrial activities
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es The South Western Cape Region
MANUFACTURING REGIONS
REGION FAVOURABLE FACTORS
LIMITATIONS MAIN INDUSTRIES
PWV Complex
Durban-Pinetown
South-western Cape
Port Elizabeth- Uitenhage
Problem: Development only in these four regions, the rest of the country under developed. Post 1994 government developed a programme to promote development across the country
Study this section by means of the following table:
Southwestern Cape
Southwestern Cape
Factors favouring • Well developed infrastructure – no homelands
– high levels of employment and education• Contributes the most to the agricultural sector
– grapes, deciduous fruit, citrus fruit, wheat. Also export fynbos, rooibos, tea and wine. Wool, meat and diary industries also strong.
• Good farming systems
• Harbour – direct access to export market and to process imported items
• Agulhas bank – great fishing• 80% urbanised; Africa’s Western City• Transport routes good, despite mountains• Water sufficient from inland dams• Skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled labour• Leisure tourism
Factors favouring
Business Tourism Increasing…
Factors hindering
• No major minerals• No coal, only Koeberg and Palmiet HEP –
insufficient – BLACK OUTS. Electricity is expensive
• Other forms of green energy production – wind, solar – expensive
• Far from Gauteng – major market• Industrial sites are limited and therefore very
expensive
• Water is scarce – industry needs water• Palmiet
Factors hindering
Palmiet Power Station
Types of Industries in W. Cape
• Mostly labour intensive light industry• Clothing and footwear• Food processing• Fish canning and packaging• Link Industries – printing and packaging• Petrol refinery at Milnerton
Western Cape Environment• Limited air pollution – light industries and
land/sea breezes• Textile industry pollutes rivers• Fires destroyed fynbos and animal habitats• Soil affected as development (concrete and
tar) forge ahead• Sea suffers from thermal pollution from
factories and boats– warms up
Western Cape Environment• Xerophytic plants – long tap root, waxy,
fleshy leaves, thorns and small silver leaves.
Prospects• Community breakdown – drugs TIK worrying• Unemployment needs to be addressed - a
comprehensive plan• Decide on energy source – nuclear?• Crime can affect tourism• Fires• Climate Change – threatens fynbos