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Imagine the future: Entrepreneurs and small businesses rent shared office space in Cape Town. High-growth tech start-ups need a conducive policy environment to thrive. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

South Africa needs to breed ‘unicorns’

A start-up Act that changes exchange control, tax and labour laws will help innovation-driven tech start-ups thrive

Melvyn Lubega