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Eskom
A state monopoly that powers a nation also poisons its air—and blackouts prove it runs on inertia, not investment.
South Africa
A country that dismantled its own founding logic and is still doing the arithmetic.
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Naspers
A nationalist publisher that became a passive tech investor by accident — not design.
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Sasol
A state-built coal-to-liquids project became a global mining and chemicals giant—not by pivoting away from coal, but by scaling it.
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ABB
Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown · 1988
ABB is a post-merger industrial incumbent whose value lies in proven, regulated, physical infrastructure — not software, platforms, or scalability stories.
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AbbVie didn’t win the autoimmune market with science — it won with patents, pricing, and settlements.
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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
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Aeroplan
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