Fixing our SOEs for a growing economy and a brighter future
Dysfunctional monopoly entities such as Eskom and SAA must be made to compete for customers if they are to be turned around and SA’s economy revitalised
20 October 2024 - 00:00
Readers of work produced by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) will know that the notion of the “developmental state” is not one to which we subscribe. It is, in our view, an incoherent idea used to justify any policy that sounds desirable to some or other faction that supports the ANC, irrespective of the workability, affordability or plausibility of the notion itself. That so many still cling to this belief as the state collapses around us is proof of the power of wishful thinking or ideology over reality...
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