South Africa has toppled Nigeria and reclaimed its status as the largest economy in Africa. Professor Jannie Rossouw from the University of the Witwatersrand explains what it all means.
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The venality and gross incompetence of the ANC government have provided a convenient smokescreen for unelected lobbyists and vested interest groups to inveigle themselves into the South African political process at the expense of transparency and democracy. One such organisation is the Free Market Foundation, a neo-liberal lobby group that styles itself as a non-profit Public Benefit Organisation.