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South Africa needs some brutally honest introspection if we are to emerge from the Trump firestorm in a better place…
Making America corrupt again
It’s open season for bribes and bad actors now that Donald Trump has decided to suspend the foreign corrupt practices act of 1977…
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Hope is not a strategy in a new Trump world
Donald Trump is no joke. The unpredictability of his presidency is terrible for investment and policy planning – and SA is not immune…
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