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Reindustrialisation, as well as diversified trade partners and dismantled apartheid spatial patterns, will get South Africa out of its socioeconomic mess. Photo: File
AGRICULTURE

Here’s how South Africa can avoid the economic dependency path

It can rebuild the industrial base, create demand in the economy, diversify trade partnerships and deepen links with the continent’s regional trade networks, and, finally,…

  • Khwezi Mabasa
4 min read
Analyses of racialised disparities in both labour and product markets illustrate the need for strengthened economic redress. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
POLITICAL CAPITALISTS

BEE is essential for economic growth

There is no factual evidence that deindustrialisation, poverty, inequality and unemployment is caused by black economic empowerment, as argued by William Gumede

  • Khwezi Mabasa
4 min read
Digging deep: Reversing deindustrialisation requires making investment in South Africa’s mining industry more attractive. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images
DUTCH DISEASE

Dutch Disease and what to do about it in South Africa

Research suggests the country is suffering from it, requiring better governance and institutions

  • Ross Harvey
6 min read
South Africa’s largest steel maker has warned that without urgent government protection, it will be a matter of time before local production is no longer viable. (David Harrison/M&G)
ARCELORMITTAL SOUTH AFRICA

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…

  • Sarah Smit
1 min read
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.
DEINDUSTRIALISATION

With its industrial base decimated, SA’s economy needs real change — Godongwana

Speaking at a book launch on Tuesday, the finance minister said a focus on manufacturing is critical to stem the country’s deepening unemployment crisis

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Generative AI, cybersecurity threats, new labour-market demands and accelerated technological change are now reshaping universities. (John McCann/M&G)
4IR

Incentivise the adoption of 4IR technologies

With great rewards for bringing new technologies into different sectors will come great opportunities for South Africa’s economy

  • Tshilidzi Marwala
8 min read