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PETER BRUCE | The folly of South Africa’s industrial hallucination

TimesLIVE · 16 August 2026 at 00:00

PETER BRUCE | The folly of South Africa’s industrial hallucination

There are other measures of economic success than factories, writes Peter Bruce

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