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08 Apr 2011
 
 
Rational dialogue needed on power rationing threat
REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY SAVINGS
Last week, there was a newspaper article quoting Deputy Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene as saying that electricity “rationing” was inevitable. The statement has serious implications for this...
 
 
01 Apr 2011
 
Renewable frustration
REAL ECONOMY: RENEWABLE ENERGY
The slow pace of progress in South Africa’s electricity industry is both frustrating and ironic. The prevailing shortage of power has emerged as one of the greatest risks to new investment,...
 
 
25 Mar 2011
 
Holier than COP?
Real Economy: Carbon Taxes
The South African government is entirely correct to apply its mind to the issue of pricing carbon. While debates continue to rage in the media (including in this publication) about whether human...
 
 
18 Mar 2011
 
Bank’s new strategy reflects growing Africa optimism
AFRICA OUTLOOK
The optimistic tone of the World Bank’s new Africa strategy, which was released earlier this month, is hard to miss, or to ignore. The 43-page document kicks by saying “Sub-Saharan Africa in...
 
 
11 Mar 2011
 
Race to the bottom?
REAL ECONOMY: RACE DEBATE
“My friendships, my love, my education, my thinking and every other facet of my life have been carved and shaped within the context of separate development,” Steve Biko wrote in one of his...
 
 
04 Mar 2011
 
Project progress?
REAL ECONOMY: INFRASTRUCTURE
For me, one of the more interesting sidebars to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2011 Budget was a note entitled ‘Budgeting for better results in infrastructure spending’. On closer...
 
 
25 Feb 2011
 
The future: It’s bigger!
REAL ECONOMY: URBANISATION
During one inspirational engagement with 99 000 enraptured South Africans in Soweto earlier this month, U2 frontman Bono related how the band’s lead guitarist, The Edge, was actually from "the...
 
 
11 Feb 2011
 
It’s time that government gave engineers a proper hearing
Real Economy: Infrastructure
Many aspects of the New Growth Path (NGP) framework may well be revised over the coming months as the social partners pick it over. But there is little doubt in my mind that public infrastructure...
 
 
 
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