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AYABONGA CAWE: Last ATM at Dimbaza tells an ominous tale of deindustrialisation

An ATM bomb exploded at 1am on a characteristically quiet Friday in Dimbaza in late August. (Business Live)
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AYABONGA CAWE: The ‘dark arts’ of interstate rivalry

AYABONGA CAWE: The ‘dark arts’ of interstate rivalry (Opinion)

Rapid deployment of measures to choke an adversary’s supply chains is a development we cannot overlook. (BL Premium)
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AYABONGA CAWE: History of trade is about internation hostility and contestation

AYABONGA CAWE: History of trade is about internation hostility and contestation

SA has levied dumping duties on the US since the early 1930s. BL Premium A “stay of execution” for a few more days, a friend

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AYABONGA CAWE: SA ignores the metallic elephant in the room

AYABONGA CAWE: SA ignores the metallic elephant in the room

SA-made steel is plagued by chronic rather than episodic over-capacity, involution, weak demand and narrowing outlets for export BL Premium I spent all of my

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AYABONGA CAWE: Taxpayers will foot the bill if Thames Water is renationalised

AYABONGA CAWE: Taxpayers will foot the bill if Thames Water is renationalised

Utilities are capital-hungry behemoths, whose return cycles are atypical of profit-maximising firms. More than half of the sewer works of British utility Thames Water receive

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AYABONGA CAWE: Goodyear SA skids as trade wheel turns

More than 900 jobs are on the line because of a change in the American firm’s ‘go-to-market’ strategy. BL Premium Goodyear SA MD Paul Gerrard

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