How will the state intervene more? They have no money, so they can't invest in infrastructure. Their big infrastructure drive has resulted in extensive looting. The Prasa locomotive deal did not create a single job. No, that is wrong. It did create a job for the guy of Swifambu Rail who is distributing the money to the cadres. Their Eskom expansion has led to drastic deindustrialization due to the high cost of electricity. They built (are still building) two coal fired power stations with a capacity of 9,6GW (the same capacity as their proposed nuclear fleet) for the same price as their own estimate for the nuclear fleet: R 500 billion and counting. Instead of subsidizing rooftop PV panels feeding surplus capacity into the grid, they empowered some cadres at R 3.60 per kWh from massive solar farms (The rate for the first round supply).

The only intervention left to them is expropriation of private assets and printing of new money to fuel their plunder with inflation as byproduct.