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Are we heading for another Great Depression?

To paraphrase the title of a recent Politicsweb article, South Africa has “no need for foreign invaders“, with employees from state-owned enterprises “willing to take the country down”. It got me thinking.

Times are certainly very tough for many businesses in South Africa, and farmers are no exception. But surely what we’re going through is not comparable to the impact of the Great Depression of 1929 to 1939, followed

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