[TOP STORY] At the beginning of 2025 are we almost too optimistic?

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‘We're sitting at around 75% debt to GDP with interest rates where they are; currently north of 20% of all government revenue is now required just to service the interest on that debt – not even to pay down the debt’: Rory Kutisker-Jacobsonfrom Allan Gray.
27 Jan 2025 2AM English South Africa Business News · Business

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