A working paper, looking to answer why we pay compensation for expropriation. This paper looks at the Utilitarian approach to compensation, as formulated by Prof Frank Michelman and asking whether such an approach is viable for South Africa. It was presented at a symposium at Johannesburg in...

Two recent court cases, Agri South Africa v Minister for Minerals and Energy 2013 (4) SA 1 (CC) and Mhlanganisweni Community v Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform and Others (LCC 156/2009) 2012 ZALCC 7 (19 April 2012) put compensation issues on the foreground again. This article uses...

This paper provides some estimates of demand elasticity for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by fitting a structural discrete consumer choice model to a cross-sectional data set on Vodacom customers collected in 2005. We find higher price elasticities than...

Efficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the structure of markets, competition, and prices and costs of road transportation between urban hubs in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Key findings are...

South Africa’s post-apartheid economic transformation project has not generally delivered a “better life for all” as promised at the dawn of democracy. While most middle and upper-middle income countries have continued to see industry leading overall growth, with high investment levels,...

We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand-and-supply structural model based on a multinomial specification fitted to a cross-sectional data set on Vodacom customers collected in 2005. We find that consumers are very...

This paper adds quantitative analysis to the study by Crompton et al. (2020), in which various alternative regulatory arrangements regarding the petrol price in South Africa were explored. We use a multi-sector dynamic computable general equilibrium model for South Africa to conduct our economic...

The South African liquid fuels industry is a significant part of the economy. Historically, government policy focused on import substitution industrialization to support industry margins. This approach is called into question by the 2006 shift from net exports to imports and by inflated...

Efficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the structure of markets, competition, and prices and costs of road transportation between urban hubs in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Key findings are...

Rapid urbanization and rising income levels in Southern Africa have increased the consumption of perishable and processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in transporting time-sensitive perishable products across...