Socio Economic Crises Of South Africa S Horticulture Sector

SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISES IN SOUTH AFRICA’S HORTICULTURE SECTOR In this research I have gone through the effects of the â€Å"Global value chain (GVC) and Global product networks (GPNs)† on the South African economy and the horticulture labour force. So what are GVC and GPNs†¦? Global value chain is the chain of activities, which include all the major steps from producing a product to selling them in an international market and even the after sales services (Inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales and services). Whereas, Global product network is the web of the company’s production cycle in which an organization manufactures the different parts of a product in different countries of the world or may be in different†¦show more content†¦The supermarkets changed the dynamics of agrofood trade, production and employment as supermarkets focused on providing better quality products to the consumers at cheaper rates which is offcourse a good thing but due to this the suppliers put extra burden on the horticulture firms in South Africa and that burden ultimately delegated to the lowest unit of the hierarchy of the firms, i.e., the workers. Along with this I have found that Social and Economic crises in South Africa are not only the result of bad effects of Global value chain and Global Product Networks but also the result of â€Å"Apartheid†. Apartheid is a former social system, followed in South Africa, in which blacks and other racial groups did not have the same political, economical and social rights like whites and were treated differently from white people. Under apartheid the South Africa was classified into four different races, i.e., the blacks, whites, coloured and Indian/Asians. In the whole country 80% of population was of blacks, 9% of whites, 9% of coloured and 2% was of Indian/Asians. In 1994 Nelson Mandela became the president of South Africa and ended the apartheid system permanently but in my research I have observed that the racial