BRUCE WHITFIELD: Why companies are ditching useless municipalities
‘There’s raw sewage everywhere, and electricity and water are intermittent, so it’s an unacceptable environment not only for businesses to operate in, but for people to live in’
14 June 2021 - 08:50
The decision by Israeli-controlled, JSE-listed Clover to shut SA’s biggest cheese factory in Lichtenburg, and spend R1.5bn relocating to Queensburgh near Durban, has shades of the long-running battle between Astral Foods and the Lekwa municipality around Standerton.
Both are symptomatic of a broader collapse of smaller municipalities, destroyed by a mix of incompetent political deployees in jobs they are not trained or suited for, rising corruption and factional ANC battles...
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