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...TIME's photo essay "Transforming Sasol...
...South African Success Story Alex Perry's article refers to Sasol's "dirty little secret", supposedly that Sasol used a process also used by Nazi Germany [Sept. 15]. The founder of Sasol was my brother, the late Etienne Rousseau, a chemical engineer. In 1990 he described to me how he had used a combination of the Fischer-Tropsch and the complementary American Kellogg process, not the German process only. Moreover it is common knowledge that after World War II the U.S. used captured German scientists to work on synthetic fuels. This was a U.S. Bureau of Mining project instigated...
...ordinary South African and I am amazed that you publish such disparaging rubbish about Sasol. Perry's pernicious tone is an attempt to blacken Sasol's achievements. Sasol technology is being used in several countries around the world because it is the most advanced. Sasol gasoline and diesel has never been produced in sufficient quantity to prop up any government. Contrary to Perry's comments, CTL and GTL fuels are likely to play a major role in the future. This is why so many different countries are commissioning plants to produce them. Why didn't Perry look a little deeper...
...interesting to note how successful Sasol has been, thanks to the South African taxpayer who has heavily subsidized Sasol over many years and under very questionable circumstances [Sept. 15]. As Sasol globalizes its business operations, it will be interesting to see how it deals with its most vital challenges: the protection of its intellectual property, increasing political demands at home to contribute much more substantially to the economy of South Africa, and the worsening skills shortage in its core operations. Instead of claiming transformation by counting how many black directors sit on its board, or how many discounted shares...
...Your report on Sasol got me thinking about racism and democracy. Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden as running mate shows wisdom in balancing his own weaknesses (political and governing experience and foreign policy). Aging and angry John McCain picks young Sarah Palin, ambitious but inexperienced and not remotely qualified for a position that demands brave yet sensible world leadership. In South Africa, our precious 15-year-old democracy is dominated by a single party that has chosen a leader with no governing track record, intent on quashing a state case against him for fraud. This same government, notes...