[TOP STORY] Cosatu calls for competent leadership to revive Transnet

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‘The fact is today we transport less goods than we did in 1994, yet the economy has doubled. That just shows you what a crisis we're in and how we just simply need to make this our number one priority right now,’ says Cosatu’s parliamentary coordinator, Matthew Parks.

2 Oct 2023 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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