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Transnet crisis emphasises urgency to invest and reinvent

what recently happened to Transnet – together with the World Bank’s ranking of South African ports at the bottom of a global list of 351 ports – presents a big challenge to policymakers. This is according to North West University Business School’s Professor Raymond Parsons.

Says Parsons: “Given its dominance in the economy’s supply chain, Transnet’s temporarily backing out of its commitment to move goods in and out of the country has had widespread unintended economic and

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