South Africa has exhibited tepid economic growth over the past twenty years as well as high levels of income inequality … characteristic of a middle income country growth trap. This paper compares and contrasts South Africa's growth trap relative to …

. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …

remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

issues, therefore identifying areas of high and low wind power reliability in southern Africa at different time scales. After … of South Africa has shown the most interest in wind power investment. For this reason, we focus parts of the study on … wind resource in the country. The study finds that, although wind power density is high in South Africa compared to its …