Sobukwe, the economic tasks of the 1949 Programme of Action remain relevant

a. the establishment of commercial, industrial and transport enterprises in the rural and urban areas
b. Consolidation of industrial organization of workers for the improvement of their living standards
The Programme encouraged provincial Congresses to ‘study the economic and social conditions in the Reserves and other African settlements’ to devise means for the development of enterprises in these areas that can give employment to people.
A formulation going beyond the ‘township economy’ or rural development language of today, but calling for a subversive dislocation of the Apartheid function of these areas as ‘Reserves’ for the cheap labour profit path pursued then, and in many sectors, to this day. Enkosi Lisa.
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