Apartheids Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence Ballim Faeeza
Apartheids Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence Ballim Faeeza A fascinating study that shows how the intersection of technology and politics has shaped South African…
Specifikacia Apartheids Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence Ballim Faeeza
Apartheids Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence Ballim Faeeza
A fascinating study that shows how the intersection of technology and politics has shaped South African history since the 1960s.This book details the development of an interconnected technological system of a coal mine and of the Matimba and Medupi power stations in the Waterberg, a rural region of South Africa near the country's border with Botswana. This set the stage for the national electricity provider, Eskom, to build coal-fueled power stations in the Waterberg.Faeeza Ballim follows the development of these technological systems from the late 1960s, a period of heightened repression as the apartheid government attempted to realize its vision of racial segregation, to the deeply fraught construction of the Medupi South Africa's state steel manufacturing corporation, Iscor, which has since been privatized, developed a coal mine in the region in the 1970s.
The Story Of Electricity