Industrial policy under democracy: apartheid's grown-up infant industries? Iscor and Sasol

The apartheid state's selective intervention to shape South Africa's industrial development around the minerals energy complex included the establishment and support of state-owned enterprises in chemicals and steel in the form of Sasol and Iscor. Both of these companies were privatised at...

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Published in:Transformation (Durban, South Africa) South Africa), 2010, Vol.71 (1), p.50-75
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