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Johannesburg and other South African municipalities face public anger over water cuts, power outages and potholes. The article cites a large infrastructure spending backlog, with the president among those acknowledging the problems.
Municipal infrastructure failures affect domestic services and sentiment but do not plausibly move agricultural commodity supply, demand or prices.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.