The closure of coal mines and local development responses in Coal-Rim Cluster, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Etienne Nel, Trevor Hill, Kate Aitchison and Simphiwe Buthelezi

Development Southern Africa, 2003, vol. 20, issue 3, 369-385

Abstract: The impact of mine closure can have a devastating effect on the local economies of the towns that they once supported. Drawing on comparative, international material, this article examines the nature and effectiveness of the local economic development responses that have been initiated in the former coal-mining towns in northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Although a range of innovative locally identified strategies have been embarked upon, considerably greater effort and investment will be needed in order to catalyse significant and meaningful regeneration endeavours.

Date: 2003
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