Liberalisation and Reform in Africa
South Africa has done well, but barely begun the massive task, other parts of Africa have only just started or slipped back

Liberalisation of Electricity Markets in Africa

  • In 2003, David Butcher was a guest speaker and resource person at a Commonwealth Secretariat organised seminar on electricity reform in Anglophone Africa. The seminar looked at the many ways to improve sector performance by facilitating competition and private investment.

State Enterprise Reform in South Africa

  • In 2003, David Butcher led a State Enterprise Reform Programme in South Africa, (UK funded). This project identified a number of major problems, many stretching back into the Apartheid era that were hampering the efficiency of state enterprises.
clockwise from top right, delegates from the Gambia and Lesoto in Nairobi, Transnet review team with Treasury Officials, Department of Public Enterprises Bakgatla Seminar, (Jacob Kotze Director: Forestry Sector and Deputy Director Nonkululeko are in front of respective shots), Snakes (ICASA) and Ken Wright and tea break for speakers Robert Hull and David Butcher, Nairobi