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South Africa – a country of contrasts

By Prieur du Plessis, on August 25th, 2008 posted in: South Africa

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By Dr Mark Mobius

The flight from Dubai to Johannesburg took us seven hours down across the Gulf of Aden over Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Mogadishu. First stop: Johannesburg where most of the large company offices are located. Things are not going so well on the South African political and economic front. [...]

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