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Turn your lights down low

The New York Times reports on the long-term effects of the electricity blackouts in South Africa’s neighborhood:

‘Because South Africa is an engine of growth for the [Southern African] region, a slowdown here would also affect its neighbors, undermining global efforts to reduce poverty and damaging South Africa’s own drive to slash its woeful unemployment rate of 25.5 percent.’

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