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To reduce overconcentration of industry in four metropolitan areas, and to promote the internal economies of the Bantu homelands, the South African government has a border industries scheme of guaranteed Bantu wage control, subsidized transport, and tax holidays to encourage industrial location in specified White towns adjacent to Bantu areas. Five border industry towns have been proclaimed adjoining the Tswana homeland between Pretoria and Botswana. Only Brits is viable. Thus far the scheme has produced only minor industrial decentralization and Bantu homeland development. White areas have benefited more than Bantu areas. The border industries scheme is politically rather than economically motivated. Alternative economic development possibilities to border industries include industrialization within the Tswana homeland by Bantu entrepreneurs, Whites, and government corporations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]