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South Africa: renewed restrictions to stymie recovery

Recently-announced measures to curb South Africa’s second wave of COVID-19 will probably throw the economic recovery off course, with GDP likely to contract in Q1 if restrictions are extended. We think that the darkening clouds over the recovery will prompt the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates this month.

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