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SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY CONFERENCE
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The Economic History Society of Southern Africa is holding its
8th biennial conference from 28 September to 29 September 1995.
Anyone interested in the study and teaching of Economic History
is welcome.
VENUE: MIKRAULA, D Les 103
Rand Afrikaans University
JOHANNESBURG
South Africa
PROGRAMME:
THURSDAY, 28 September 1995
1.45pm Registration (Fee: R20-00)
2.10pm Opening of Conference
2.15pm Prof A.C.M. Webb (Rhodes University, Grahamstown)
Towards a new paradigm in South African history:
Some thoughts drawn from the agricultural experience
2.45pm Dr J.J. Edley (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg)
The Natal Land and Colonisation Company and the vexed
question of land distribution and redistribution?
3.15pm J. Kotze, D. Blaauw & J. Klee (Vista University, Soweto)
An overview of the economic activity in the Greater Soweto
Area and the historical influences pertaining to it
3.45pm Tea
4.00pm Prof Colin Newbury (University of Oxford)
Keynote Address
5.30pm Cocktail Party
FRIDAY, 29 September 1995
9.00am Prof A. M#ller (University of Port Elizabeth)
The Korean economic miracle since 1960
9.30am Prof W. Viviers & D. Steyn (University of Potchefstroom)
Economic and political initiatives of EC integration for
the period 1945 to 1992
10.00am Prof J. Heyns (Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg)
Fiscal policy in South Africa, 1985-1995
10.30am Prof R. Vivian (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
South Africa's first insurance company
11.00am Tea
11.15am Prof A.B. Lumby (University of Natal, Durban)
Discounting in environmental economics:
Time and dynamic efficiency
11.45am P.R. Draper (University of Durban-Westville, Durban)
The response of the South African computer-hardware industry
to disinvestment in the 1980s: An ephemeral local manufacture
"campaign"
12.15pm General Meeting of the Economic History Society of Southern
Africa
ENQUIRIES
For further information, please contact the Treasurer of the
Economic History Society of Southern Africa (Jon Inggs):
e-Mail: INGGSEJ@ALPHA.UNISA.AC.ZA
Fax: 27+12+429-3433
Post: c/o Economics Department
Unisa
PO 392
PRETORIA
South Africa
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