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ArcelorMittal and the story of SA’s deindustrialisation
The steelmaker’s privatisation was the death knell for the country’s manufacturing industry This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account…
The role of Eskom in South African history
An edited extract from ‘Eskom: Power, Politics and the (Post) Apartheid State’
Creaking economy must be reformed for the better
Structural reforms are often offered as the solution to South Africa’s growth problem, but we should be wary when they are code for privatisation
After 100 years of Eskom, SA’s energy future hangs in the balance
The country’s dalliance with privatisation threatens to push up electricity costs, undermining energy security
Clear vision led SA’s industrial revolution
Lessons from when Jan Smuts drove the industrialisation of South Africa in the form of electricity and steel to benefit an elite community
State will be out of the telecoms industry if the MTN, Telkom transaction succeeds
The notion of governments owning and fiddling in telecoms is outdated and unnecessary, according to communications experts
Why Afrikaner affirmative action was more effective than BEE
The National Party government used a collective effort — social, cultural, linguistic, political and financial — to prop up poor white people
Just admit it, corporate SA: You are killers
For too long, industries have been able to operate unchecked, a situation that costs people’s lives.