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South Africa’s sorry state of the nation

South Africa’s upcoming State of the Nation Address will undoubtedly focus on addressing the deepening energy crisis. But there’s little that the authorities can do to ease power cuts in the near-term before measures to improve electricity availability kick in down the line. And efforts by the government to step in with support would worsen the fragile public finance position.

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