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SA’s industrial development zone (IDZ) programme has been a disappointment. Government is now overhauling and expanding it but scepticism remains, writes Claire Bisseker.
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It often seems that SA’s foreign policy is decided not in Pretoria, but in Havana, Harare or Caracas. The country’s interests seem peripheral, even incidental.
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