28 years since South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994 it remains one of the most unequal societies in the world, despite all efforts to empower previously disadvantaged groups in all spheres of the economy. Hanlie Stadler, business editor of Netwerk24, gives an overview of the South African economy in numbers – including a look at who is unemployed and why, and who runs the country’s biggest companies. Was the Covid-19 crisis perhaps an opportunity to change the trajectory of the economy?

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