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African countries aren’t borrowing too much: they’re paying too much for debt
African governments are issuing and listing their Eurobonds on established international debt markets – usually London and Irish Stock Exchanges
Why credit rating agencies are still getting away with bad behaviour
Rating agencies have been at the centre of major financial crises
Why Zuma’s free higher education plan will cripple SA’s finances
The initiative will plunge the country into a deeper financial crisis if it isn’t adjusted one way or another.
What the KPMG saga says about shareholder activism
KPMG South Africa sets a potential example of how shareholders can attack the soft underbelly of private sector state capture enablers.
Why South African shouldn’t turn to the IMF for help
The idea that South Africa must look towards the International Monetary Fund to rescue itself from the prevailing crisis must be dismissed.
Corrupt state owned enterprises lie at the heart of South Africa’s economic woes
The country stands to slip deeper into crisis unless the lust for loot is stopped. The economy is already in deep trouble.
Zuma’s attack on capital is digging SA into a deeper hole
The populism politics adopted by the ANC mask a strategy to deflect attention from the party’s policy failures and to hide its many scandals.
Why junk status still hangs over South Africa
The effects of a sovereign credit rating downgrade would be painful for all South Africans.
SA is finely balanced between autocracy and democracy
South Africa has never reached an embedded democratic state and global patterns suggest it has a higher chance of falling back into an autocracy.