Power as capital: insights from South Africa's commercial forestry sector

Achieng Ojwang

Development Southern Africa, 2008, vol. 25, issue 5, 531-542

Abstract: This article discusses the link between power, empowerment and capital(s) in South Africa's forestry sector. Contestations within the sector spring from a policy struggle to ensure multiple interests and diverse objectives are represented in commercial forestry. This is a change from the previous domination of commercial forestry by the state and the private sector. Current policy directives require the inclusion of local communities close to the resources and of black individuals with entrepreneurial interests in forestry. The article deviates from analyses that make redistribution of economic capital the main solution to empowerment issues at the centre of these policy efforts. Backed by qualitative research into two forestry companies in two provinces - Singisi Forest Products in the Eastern Cape and Siyaqhubeka Forestry in KwaZulu-Natal - the article argues that to create and sustain 'new power', especially for local groups of communities, requires not only economic but also social and human/intellectual capital.

Date: 2008
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