Many domestic ferrochrome smelters are now unable to operate profitably since electricity (the biggest cost of production) is so much more expensive in SA than in China.
The illicit market in South Africa is already possibly the biggest in the world and has created an unhealthy situation.
South Africa, with weaker border controls and higher crime rates, faces even greater risks.
Sadly, neither is true anymore and perhaps Africa deserves to be represented at the G20 by a country that is less peculiar and more exemplary.
