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Meltdown in South Africa: How corruption and crime pushed a nation to the brink of collapse

By David Pilling
Financial Times·
15 mins to read
Meltdown in South Africa: How corruption and crime pushed a nation to the brink of collapse
Meltdown in South Africa: How corruption and crime pushed a nation to the brink of collapse

André de Ruyter knew something was not right when he started to feel dizzy and nauseous after drinking a coffee.

At the time he was chief executive of Eskom, South Africa’s collapsing electricity utility, and to his surprise, he found himself forgetting simple words, even the term “power

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