Flash Briefing: SA business confidence plummets to apartheid lows; SA wants to swap Covid-19 vaccine

Headlines:

• South African business confidence hit a 35-year low in 2020, says the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry – calling on the government to rethink economic policy and hurry up with vaccine roll-out.
• Standard Bank snaps up shares in Angolan subsidiary;
• The SA govt wants to swap the Covid-19 vaccine it has ordered from India for one that better protects against the variant responsible for 90% of cases;
• Gold Fields expects earnings per share to jump by more than 300%.

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