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One of the main lessons from the VBS Bank collapse in South Africa is that audit reports need to be treated with a degree of circumspection. In some cases they will require independent verification.
South Africa's president has firmly thrown his weight behind the private sector. This could prove significant.
South Africa and Kenya have some valuable lessons for other African countries on how to finance urban infrastructure development.
South Africa's job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
South Africa's finance minister has chosen to walk a tightrope rather than face tough choices about cutting expenditure or raising taxes.
A study of the mobility of poverty, or the movement of people in and out of poverty over time, provides a much more accurate picture.
The damage done during the preceding decade will have a negative effect on South Africa's public finances and the economy for some time to come.
Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights.
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
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