Apartheid's Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence

by Faeeza Ballim

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. South Africa's state steel manufacturing corporation, Iscor, which has since been privatized,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821425188
• ISBN13: 9780821425183
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"