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What kind of post-pandemic recovery?

IN HIS speech to the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2021 Virtual Conference on January 26, President Cyril Ramaphosa appealed to wealthy nations not to horde Covid-19 vaccines but free them for the developing south.

For a leader of the AU and South Africa, as a member of the G20 and BRICS, to plead, shows the unequal power relations of the rich developed world vis-à-vis the precarious position of the developing south in one of the most tragic crises humanity has faced, with rich nations and

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