A Significantly Changed Scene

Monday, May 05, 2014

The really big news of the last few weeks came with South Africa’s carefully timed announcement that it would be paying the entire cost of a new ZAR40 billion 105 kilometre railway line which would link Mamambula with its Waterberg coal fields.

I am unclear why it would have chosen to make this news public a matter of days after this government and Namibia had signed a further agreement to construct a rail link between the two.

The obvious first impression was that South Africa’s was a deliberately timed announcement intended to humiliate and embarrass those two countries.

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