Free basic electricity in South Africa: A strategy for helping or containing the poor?

Electric Capitalism: Recolonising Africa on the Power Grid

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 248-263

  Ruiters, Greg ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 69949161759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849771061     Document Type: Chapter

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