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Featuring Coreen van der Merwe, managing director at Sovereign Trust SA

Under a different political and economic climate, South Africa’s exit from its technical recession should have, and perhaps would have, been received with a tinge of hope and glimmer of renewed optimism.

Instead, the news came and went in what seemed to be a genuine non-event against the backdrop of corruption scandals and political infighting. It did little to quell investors’ appetite for international exposure that is increasing amidst a backdrop of record unemployment, public debt of R2-trillion and government expenditure that exceeds GDP.

SA simply cannot afford any further shocks to the economy, but there are many risks.

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