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Scot Ready for Mystery Man - [Scottish Sunday] Wounded Nation The lights are literally and figuratively going out all over South Africa as crime, corruption and mismanagement push the rainbow country towards becoming another failed African state. By Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg AFTER BATHING in the warm, fuzzy glow of the Mandela years, South Africans today are deeply demoralized people. The lights are going out in homes, mines, factories, and shopping malls as the national power authority, Eskom - suffering from mismanagement, lack of foresight, failure to maintain power stations, and a flight of skilled engineers to other countries - implements rolling power cuts that plunge towns and cities into daily chaos. Major industrial projects are on hold. The only healthy enterprise now worth being involved in is the sale of small diesel generators to powerless households, but even this business has run out of supplies and spare parts from China. The currency,

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