The economy is expected to create a jobs boom if the country can fix its electricity grid and meet the increasing demand for local copper beneficiation
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The apartheid state used job reservation, quotas, selective procurement, import controls and industrial policy to advance working class Afrikaners
South Africa risks falling behind as much of the rest of the world embraces industrialisation to grow and protect economies
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We need capable, steady leaders, an equitable developmental model, laws that encourage investment and a steady supply of electricity.
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/ 25 February 2011
The budget gives few details of tax breaks, the reviewed policy is being kept under wraps and analysts point out some of the problems.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies’s ‘new’ industrial policy contains ideas that are old and tired.