Tunnel, no lights: South Africa’s crumbling infrastructure
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The Economist
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
South Africa’s infrastructure—its ports, railways and power grid—are struggling and poorly managed. Ordinary South Africans are increasingly fed up. We profile Russia’s new military commander in Ukraine. And our obituaries editor remembers one of Britain’s finest rural writers.
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| 0:41.2 | Russia's invasion of Ukraine has a new boss. |
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