IT WAS June of 1991, the apartheid government had just unbanned political parties such as the ANC and PAC, exiles were returning to the country, and negotiations towards a new democratic dispensation were in full sway. The First National Conferenc...
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Heartless NUMSA official claims cyclone which wiped out Beira is a lie
ON NATIONAL television, NUMSA official Phakamile Jola claimed that the cyclone which destroyed “90 percent” of Beira, a city of about a half-million people 'was a lie'. Apparently, the resulting loss of power from the massive Cahora Bassa hydroelectric scheme which powers Gauteng, is merely a rus...
Socialist complexity at heart of Eskom’s problems.
WHEN Medupi and Kusile were announced by our government in 2004 and 2007 respectively, the two coal-fired mega-projects were both seen as emblematic of South Africa's democratic progress — key to the ruling alliance and its plans for the future. The ruling labour-left coalition was at the...
Old King Coal be damned
WHEN the electric icebox was invented, thousands of ice haulers went out of business. At the turn of the 20th century, nearly every family, grocer, and barkeeper in South Africa had an icebox. But ironically, South Africa's dependence on ice created the very technology that would lead to the dec...
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