Electricity + Control March 2018

New Concepts for High Tech Hazardous Areas (SAFA) 23 – 24 May 2018 Emperors Palace, Johannesburg Enquiries: Gary Friend. Email gary@ extech.co.za A-OSH EXPO/Securex South Africa 2018 22 to 24 May 2018 Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand Africa’s leading occupational health and safety (OHS) trade exhibition. Enquiries: Email info@aosh.co.za Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg Manufacturing Indaba is the leading manu- facturing event in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the annual Manufacturing Indaba and its provincial roadshows is to bring together business owners, industry leaders, government officials, capital providers and professional experts to explore opportunities and grow their manufacturing operations. Enquiries: Email thembisa@siyenzaevents. co.za NOT TO BE MISSED Manufacturing Indaba 2018 19 – 20 June 2018 POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa 17 – 19 July 2018 Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg A forum that brings together international business leaders and technical experts com- mitted to powering up a continent. Enquiries: Visit www. powergenafrica. com/2018/html

We invited Nalen Alwar (in his personal capacity) to Write @ the Back And he raises the issue of:

Moving Public-Private partnershipsTowards Pure Hybrids

P ublic-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have sufficient supply of socially constructed and multiple reali- ties across Africa, but their performance is not without difficulty. Motivated by deficiencies in the traditional contract management perspective of PPPs, an argument is offered to recognise partnership accommodation and efficiency to reduce poor partnership leverage. Resilient PPPs would exhibit prop- erties of Hybrid Organisations , an emerging fragmented concept that requires further cumulative support through committed public and private sector reconstruction of merged entities. I argue for a retreat from the rigidity of current practices (Risk Management, Game Theory, and Real Options) that whilst attempting to achieve economic cohesion, actually impair PPP resilience. The Risk Management perspective is invalidated in that whilst risk may be initially allocated, continual adjustment of risk transfer in a changing institutional and external environment is not considered and is detrimental to partnership resilience. The practice of GameTheory based on predictive abilities lends itself to monopolistic opportunism rather than emergence of solutions. Deficiency of this practice lies in its inherent mechanism of calculating contingencies before execution of the final solution, each party at- tempting to resolve the conflict to their own favour. Avoidance of this opportunistic behaviour could re- sult in more commitment to learning opportunities. Practice from a Real Options perspective calls for contract flexibility where, if a project is deemed a windfall, government can buy back the project. This practice is flawed as it assumes skills transfer of operational excellence transfer and cost management. An evolution in market practice is framed by the concept of a Hybrid Organisation where actors

Electra Mining Africa 10 – 14 September 2018

from the private and public sector are seconded to a PPP, serving its inter- ests through diversity in skill and capabilities. This could lead to PPP reform in terms of effective solutions, moral regeneration, risk transfer adjustment and re-balancing of roles aggregating towards an adaptive system that needs to be considered against the rhetoric of formal contract conditions. Hybrid organisations could be considered strategic, collaborative interweaves of public and private sector agents that demonstrate symmetrical partnering and commitment that reduces inefficient practices through supported trans- parency and interactivity within an accountable environment. By balancing interests, this would reduce PPP institutional failure through enhanced adap- tive capacity of collaborative learning that leads to performance and replica- tion potential. Email Nalwar@altaaqaglobal.com

Expo Centre, Nasrec in Johannesburg Gateway into Africa for further business expansion. Enquiries: Visit www.electramining.co.za

Nalen Alwar

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Beckhoff..........................................IFC Endress+Hauser................................3 Helukabel....................................39 ifm electronic.................................OBC Instrotech......................................38 JB Switchgear Solutions..................11

Marthinusen & Coutts....................13 Mecosa..........................................40 Omron.........................................29 PRATLEY.....................................45 PREI Instrumentation...................41 Schneider Electric....................OFC

SEW EURODRIVE......................IBC Temperature Controls..................21 WIKA.........................................23 WILEC.................................49 ZEST WEG Group............................15

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