Apartheid's Leviathan. Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence, Paperback

Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africa's economic growth and negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation's mining, manufacturing, and power generation. This study thus demonstrates how technology has shaped South African history.

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Author(s): Faeeza Ballim
• Number of pages: 176
• Collection: New African Histories
• Publication date: 2023
• Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 14
• Cover type: Paperback / softback