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Beginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa's economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation's mining, manufacturing, and power generation.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg
Chapter 2 The Taming of the Waterberg
Chapter 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide
Chapter 4 Contested Neoliberalism
Chapter 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale
Chapter 6 The Medupi Power Station
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Faeeza Ballim (she/her) is a senior lecturer and head of the history department at the University of Johannesburg. She has previously published on agricultural cooperatives and urban racial segregation in the small town of Mokopane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. She is also currently the coeditor of a five-volume series entitled Translating Technology in Africa. Her research interests cohere around science and technology studies and its relationship to African history, and her new research is in the development of artificial intelligence technology in Africa.
Summary
Beginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa’s economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation’s mining, manufacturing, and power generation.
