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Help towns back to their feet to fight the impact of deindustrialisation

Summary by Sunday World
South Africa’s small and secondary towns – once engines of industrial vitality – are quietly collapsing under the weight of de-industrialisation. Places like Lichtenburg in North West, Komati in Mpumalanga, and Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal (anchored by ArcelorMittal SA) stand as living laboratories of how industrial erosion translates into systemic social and economic decay. Their stories reveal both the anatomy of collapse and the urgent task of …
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Sunday World broke the news in on Monday, October 27, 2025.
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