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[TOP STORY] Power costs threaten shutdown of SA’s only silicon producer

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‘We've seen so many industries shut down in so many different ways, and they just don't ever return, and we won't see it come back,’ says Lucinda Hinxman, director and head of employment and labour at CMS South Africa.

9 Apr 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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