The past two years have also witnessed a grave deterioration in labor relations, an ongoing energy crisis and worsening performances by a raft of state-owned enterprises from South African Airways to Eskom, a utility company. South Africa’s economy has been downgraded by ratings agencies, even as its ranking on Transparency International’s annual corruption index has fallen sharply during the Zuma era. Public education and health care systems, meanwhile, are either failing or dysfunctional.
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