Commercial Forestry Cuttings in South Africa: A Tale of Two Systems

摘要

The commercial forestry industry in South Africa has a large positive effect on the country's economy. The forestry industry is one of the larger providers of rural employment in South Africa and workers in the plantation sector number over 75,000. The forest products sector is the fourth largest manufacturing division in the country and the forestry sector, as a whole, provides employment to approximately half a million South Africans, a figure that is expected to increase as South Africa moves deeper into the 21st century (Jones, 1994; Tewari, 2001).