In the 80's we were talking in SA already about adding value to SA raw materials. we're still talking. None of SA's governments could implement, not the NATS, not the ANC, not the GNU (yet).
If you remember, Thabo Mbeki decided to establish a service based economy for the G7, I think it's the G7 who've been paying politicians not to beneficiate 🎉😅
@@KhanyisoNtloko I disagree. G7 is too broad a category, and G7 countries are and were governed by politicians with diverse interests at different times, just like in SA, so I see no concerted or unified effort. I can imagine that business interests in certain sectors in G7 and beyond (I.e. also Russia and China) had an interest in discouraging such moves. But bottom line, I just don't think politicians at any time were effective at executing on this. It's a general malaise in democracy: the electoral cycle is too short for long term projects.
In the 80's we were talking in SA already about adding value to SA raw materials. we're still talking. None of SA's governments could implement, not the NATS, not the ANC, not the GNU (yet).
If you remember, Thabo Mbeki decided to establish a service based economy for the G7, I think it's the G7 who've been paying politicians not to beneficiate 🎉😅
@@KhanyisoNtloko I disagree. G7 is too broad a category, and G7 countries are and were governed by politicians with diverse interests at different times, just like in SA, so I see no concerted or unified effort. I can imagine that business interests in certain sectors in G7 and beyond (I.e. also Russia and China) had an interest in discouraging such moves.
But bottom line, I just don't think politicians at any time were effective at executing on this. It's a general malaise in democracy: the electoral cycle is too short for long term projects.