The mineral economies of the SADCC: Namibia

Abstract

The Namibian economy is highly dualistic in nature in that the agrarian and industrial sectors are both well defined. The primary commodity-producing sectors provide the bulk of the country's wealth, while the traditional subsistence agriculture sector produces little cash income and supports most of the population. In the first of two concluding articles in our series on mining in the SADCC, Paul Jourdan looks at Namibia.