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[TOP STORY] Joburg’s broken finances could doom its next mayor

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‘You can't say I'm the popular mayor and therefore I know how to fix corruption, or therefore I can manage this budget. You can't,’ says Mark Barnes, former chief executive of the South African Post Office.

27 Oct 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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