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The Economics of South Africa Since Apartheid

Ones and Tooze

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The South African Economy Is Struggling to Generate Enough Power to Even Run the Country

For all its economic successes South Africa these days is struggling to generate enough power to even run the country. So what kind of economic problems exactly are at work here? It's not really a matter of insufficient investment per se or you know kind of failures of supply and demand for fuel but rather kind of issues of sabotage and corruption in the power industry, he says. "It's tragic because South Africa has by far the most sophisticated and extensive power grid on the African continent"

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