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South Africa: Ramaphosa has a dream, but few plans

South Africa’s president provided essentially no policy detail in yesterday’s ambitious State of the Nation speech. Indeed, he seems to have walked back his plan of a relatively modest restructuring the state’s failing energy firm. This suggests to us that divisions within the ruling party are holding back reforms.

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