The Critical Role of State-owned Enterprises and Development Finance Institutions in Black Economic Empowerment :The case of Eskom, IDC and the DBSA

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dc.contributor.authorMondi, Lumkile
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-21T09:06:14Z
dc.date.available2022-12-21T09:06:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-09
dc.description.abstractThe underlying motivation for the establishment of state-owned entities and development of finance institutions was to provide the state with instruments to enable the building of a diversified industrial economy. Under the colonial and apartheid government, these were to play a key role in racially based job segregation and Afrikaner empowerment. This paper explores the role of Eskom, the IDC and DBSA during the democratic period in deracialising the economy through black economic empowerment. It explains the political and economic forces underlying the often failed efforts to reform Eskom in the face of power shortages, financial difficulties, questionable investment in capacity and economic empowerment. The paper shows how the IDC and the DBSA have contributed to black economic empowerment. Finally, the paper provides a window into understanding the policy trajectory and decision-making of the South African government as it deals with the competing challenges of business interests and black entrepreneurs long denied economic participation because of the injustice of apartheid.
dc.description.librarianES2022
dc.description.sponsorshipSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Witwatersrand
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/33896
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.id0000-0001-6880-2884
dc.publisherSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSCIS Working Paper; 23
dc.rights©2021 Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.schoolSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.subjectBlack Economic Empowerment
dc.subjectEstablishment of state-owned entities
dc.subjectDevelopment of finance institutions
dc.subjectDiversified industrial economy
dc.subjectEskom
dc.subjectIDC
dc.subjectDBSA
dc.titleThe Critical Role of State-owned Enterprises and Development Finance Institutions in Black Economic Empowerment :The case of Eskom, IDC and the DBSA
dc.typeWorking Paper
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