Energy Explainer Part 5: What Lasting Prosperity From Oil Looks Like

Welcome to the final instalment.

If you have walked this road with me, you know the kitchen by heart: We explained what local content means, were honest about the small and medium enterprise (SME) readiness gap, asked what the ‘neighbour’, the international oil company, looks for, and mapped what only the ‘homeowner’, the government, can do.

Today we ask the only question that ever mattered: After the cake is baked and the kitchen is quiet again, did the family actually eat?

Every policy and supplier register is a means to an end. The end is a grandmother at Lüderitz, a welder at Walvis Bay, or a graduate at Khorixas feeling the difference.

If they don’t, we would simply have served the cake through the window again.