South Africa Is Being Pushed to the Edge of Economic and Political Disaster

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

DCD Wind Towers should have been a South African success story.

When DCD opened its doors in the Eastern Cape in 2013, it was the first factory set up to take advantage of the country’s abundant wind-power resources. Government policy was fueling a clean-energy bonanza, and DCD brought valuable jobs to an impoverished province.