SOUTH AFRICA: POWER ‘LOAD SHEDDING’ IMPERILS ECONOMIC RECOVERY

   Tue, 12 February 2019

As South Africa faces another round of scheduled power outages, reduced output from energy intensive sectors will put further pressure on an already bleak economic outlook. Meanwhile, labour opposition to power sector restructuring plans undermines the government’s reform plans and efforts to avoid another credit rating downgrade.

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