Politics
South Africa Nears the Point of No Return
The continent’s dominant powerhouse is being pushed to the edge of economic and political disaster.
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DCD Wind Towers should have been a South African success story.
When DCD opened its doors in the Eastern Cape in 2013, it was the first factory set up to take advantage of the country’s abundant wind-power resources. Government policy was fueling a clean-energy bonanza, and DCD brought valuable jobs to an impoverished province.