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Zambia’s new president off to a good start, SOEs in SA

Zambia’s newly elected president has wasted no time to push to restore macroeconomic stability, and reassure investors. But recent concerns about hidden debts could pose a risk to the debt restructuring process. In South Africa, reports suggest that the authorities are adopting a harder line on state-owned enterprise bailouts, but we think that it will be a case of not all SOEs being created equal.

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