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Baked-in failure: Your bread is expensive because the state does not work (opens the original)
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Farmers get less than R4 from every loaf. The other R16 passes through machinery the state has broken, from the ports to the power grid to the till, where the state takes a slice of its own. Ruben Pretorius is a lecturer in political science at the University of the Free State. Before academia, he farmed commercially. Take a loaf of bread. The average urban price of a standard white loaf is now just under R20. Of that R20, less than R4 reaches the person who grew the wheat. That is not my number
Migrant exodus exposes the hidden truth behind SAâs unemployment paradox (opens the original)
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When thousands of migrant workers fled South African farms, a long-debated paradox was put to the test: why eight million unemployed locals arenât filling the vacant agricultural jobs. Ruben Pretorius is a lecturer in political science at the University of the Free State. Before academia, he farmed commercially. This winter, in KwaZulu-Natal, sugar cane is standing uncut because there is nobody to harvest it. This same winter, 8.1 million South Africans are looking for work and cannot find it.
What SAâs draft fuel stockpile policy reveals about the state that wrote it (opens the original)
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The draft Strategic Petroleum Stocks Policy, an attempt to bolster SAâs fuel reserves, is a document riddled with inaccuracies that questions the stateâs ability to handle the complexity of managing 36 million barrels of fuel. Ruben Pretorius is a lecturer in political science at the University of the Free State. Before academia, he farmed commercially. On 9 July, the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources gazetted its draft Strategic Petroleum Stocks Policy for public comment. It is
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