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/ 27 November 2009
Paying lip service to empowerment is not enough — true transformation requires efficiency and better prices as well.
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/ 13 November 2009
Eskom’s problems now are so deep and multifaceted it will take more than any individual to fix them — It will need a whole country.
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/ 13 November 2009
If there’s a single feature that dominates South Africa, it is the Drakensberg. Kevin Davie discovered this when he cycled the rand from end-to-end.
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/ 6 November 2009
Two weeks ago, when outgoing Eskom chief executive officer Jacob Maroga sat down to write a strategy document for the beleaguered power utility, he had no way of knowing that his tenure was about to end.
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/ 30 October 2009
His predecessor must have been all smiles as he listened to Pravin Gordhan deliver his maiden budget with sterling confidence.
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/ 30 October 2009
Despite the confident mini-budget, confusion persists over how South Africa’s economy will be managed, and by whom.
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/ 27 October 2009
If you wanted to have a smart guy in charge of economic policy, you could hardly do better than Ebrahim Patel.
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/ 17 October 2009
Eskom has been battling to keep the lights on. Now it wants to shoot them out.
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/ 15 October 2009
Property developer Basil Walker’s rock store is a highly innovative and energy-efficient model for cooling systems in modern buildings.
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/ 15 October 2009
We’re somewhere between the petroleum age and renewables, writes Kevin Davie.