JOHANNESBURG – There is is no gentle way of announcing it, or more telling, a more sophisticated way of avoiding saying it, that South Africa has officially entered its golden age of hydrocarbon extraction.
- Ambassador Bheki Gila
In spite of the voices of sceptics, their disbelief not so much the fact that we have entered the age, but that it is golden, it would be naiveté of a disturbing kind that the country keeps walking into an age unbeknown to the…
And that as it enters, it does so armed with no more than an infantile curiosity.
The optimists for their part, who have become the wise men and women of our day, argue that it is not only an age, but a…