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The staggering costs of Black Economic Empowerment

The ruling party’s flagship policy is a cause of the country’s problems, not a solution

After a lost decade, economic prospects may be brightening

And how it can be made to do so

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

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