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SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA: Platinum is starting the day on the front foot with Gold and
Silver on the follow.
-Overnight/yesterday: South Africa's biggest platinum-mining companies are
scaling back some operations as a record level of rolling blackouts start to
cripple key parts of the economy. Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. said it won't
send miners underground for the 4 a.m. shift on Tuesday if state utility Eskom
Holdings SOC Ltd. persists with the current level of blackouts.
*South Africa is the largest exporter of platinum in the world and has a 28.3%
market share of a global annual export.
**Fundamentals would suggest a higher platinum= a higher Rand.. But the street
is mostly focus onto the negative outlook and the never ending Eskom debacle. 
-Technically, we are still trading within that falling wedge pattern, and would
favour longs and/or adding on dips.

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