Can South Africa feasible create a manufacturing renaissance?
Government are saying all the right things about getting the country back-on-track with its manufacturing aspirations, but how practically feasible is this rhetoric really?
Considering that manufacturing has all but entirely collapsed in South Africa, how should Deputy Minister Andrew Whitfield be looking at the sector so that it opens up the economy and creates the inclusive prosperity that we need?
Currently I'm curating research on the topic of opportunities in manufacturing, so also took a brief stab at that question in my latest Daily Maverick piece...
An SA manufacturing renaissance is good buzz speak, but can it happen?
Several elements have contributed to the deindustrialisation of the country over the past three decades, but none has been more devastating than the effects of load shedding.