The steelmaker’s privatisation was the death knell for the country’s manufacturing industry
An edited extract from ‘Eskom: Power, Politics and the (Post) Apartheid State’
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
The country’s dalliance with privatisation threatens to push up electricity costs, undermining energy security
Lessons from when Jan Smuts drove the industrialisation of South Africa in the form of electricity and steel to benefit an elite community
The notion of governments owning and fiddling in telecoms is outdated and unnecessary, according to communications experts
The National Party government used a collective effort — social, cultural, linguistic, political and financial — to prop up poor white people
For too long, industries have been able to operate unchecked, a situation that costs people’s lives.