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Boardroom Talk: SA’s slide away from full democracy continues; now ranks only 4th in Africa
Alec Hogg writes on the latest Democracy Index by The Economist's Intelligence Unit - showing SA's decline as a full democracy.
By Alec Hogg
It's been a supercharged start to 2023 for investment markets, with the JSE delivering more in January than in the whole of 2019, 2020, and 2020. Nasdaq, too, has been on a tear; although its double-digit rise in January pales compared with Bitcoin's 41% bounce. But some context in the five-year graph below. Images courtesy of Kevin Lings, chief economist at Stanlib.
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