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From the “never saw that one coming…” department: The Famine Early Warning System says the cereal balance sheet projects a shortfall in maize – the staple food – of some 850,000 tonnes. By December only 152,600 tonnes had been delivered, meaning widespread hunger looks set to continue. The monitors say Zimbabwe’s lack of foreign currency [...] Apparently Eskom’s complete incompetence may lead to a few jobs for Lesotho. Recent power problems have hit the Durban Textile industry especially hard. The cuts, which Eskom attributed to power station maintenance and the shut down of one unit at the country’s only nuclear power plant, caused outages stretching from Cape Town to Johannesburg. South [...] |
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