Extremely high youth unemployment will erode support for the governing ANC in the local government election next week, and the country’s opposition political parties will do well, according to Fitch Ratings
The credit rating agency’s head of sub-Saharan African risk, Jane Morley, said this week that it expected the South African government to make slow progress in tackling joblessness, given
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