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World Service,11 Dec 2019,53 mins

South Africa paralysed by power cuts

Newsday

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South Africa has announced substantial nationwide power cuts after ten per cent of the electricity grid was switched off. Journalist Mo Allie in Cape Town gives his personal take on the load shedding. Senegal music legend, Baaba Maal, tells us about his attempts to stop the desertification of the Sahel region. And the Victoria Falls dry to a trickle. We ask if it is due to climate change.

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