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The government ensures for its part that it is only a question of promoting diversity and equality. "This does not mean that white people are going to be eliminated to make way for disadvantaged groups," Labor Minister Thulas Nxesi recently pleaded.

Power cuts of as many as 12 hours a day have driven schools, hospitals and businesses to generators. Water in some communities is unsafe to drink. A dilapidated sanitation system triggered a recent cholera outbreak near the capital, Pretoria. Outside of some national highways, paved streets have more potholes than road.

A new law aimed at increasing the employment of black people in South Africa has enraged businesses and liberals.

Top black business leaders have blasted the slow pace of economic transformation, saying there is still too much wealth concentrated in white hands almost 30 years into democracy.

On a recent sunny afternoon, Joshua Radebe patted down asphalt into a neatly filled pothole on a busy Johannesburg street as a motorist tooted and waved to him. Radebe works

Gatvol executives have chosen to use business forums to express their concerns instead of coming out publicly.

(Bloomberg) -- On a recent sunny afternoon, Joshua Radebe patted down asphalt into a neatly filled pothole on a busy Johannesburg street as a motorist tooted and waved to him. Radebe works not for the government but for insurance company Discovery Ltd.’s “Pothole Patrol.” Most Read from BloombergApple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAIWhat a UPS Strike Would Mean For Consumers, Businesses and the EconomyNadella’s Microsoft Pa...

Business is no longer willing to quietly work in the background and let the government take credit for the improvements it brings.

Were it not for the SA's continuously abused private sector, the ANC government would have driven the nation into the ground long ago.

Government incompetence has left critical infrastructure in tatters, forcing companies to step into the breach.