BROKEN CITY: Powerless in Joburg: how blackout desperation fuels a cash-for-cables extortion racket
Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility increasingly unable to…
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