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South Africa giving billions to struggling state-owned firms

by Associated Press
| February 26, 2020 7:30 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa on Wednesday announced an additional $3.5 billion in government spending for struggling state-owned power utility Eskom and national carrier South African Airways over the next three years as the country’s weak economy faces an electricity crisis.

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