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[TOP STORY] Moving away from US dollar favoured over Brics currency

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‘We all know that the US articulation of its values around democracy, accountability, transparency, and how it deals with countries that don't conform to those values of democracy, the free-market system of capitalism, they are punished severely,’ says Lumkile Mondi, senior lecturer at Wits University.

23 Aug 2023 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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