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Transnet Freight Rail’s iron ore line between Sishen in die Northern Cape and Saldanha on the West Coast.
Prof Jan Havenga, a logistics expert in the department of industrial engineering at Stellenbosch University, has done economic modelling which shows that Transnet’s inability to keep its railway lines and train services in working order has shaved off more than six percentage points of potential economic growth in the past year.
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