Tag Archives: Black Economic Empowerment

Economic Growth in South Africa: has the ANC got it wrong?

September 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Moeletsi Mbeki and Refiloe Morwe A couple of years ago when still a political analyst for Nedbank, one of South Africa’s leading banks, I was asked by a fund manager in Edinburgh how sustainable I thought South Africa was. … read more »

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Cheap labour, cheap lives

September 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

There is a passage from Olive Schreiner’s 1883 novel ‘The Story of An African Farm’ where she describes the isolated existence of the rural Karoo, with its “weird and almost oppressive beauty…the stone walled sheep kraals and kaffer huts.” This … read more »

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