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Is Ramaphosa finished? Will wine be unbanned? And are we losing another decade?

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Nicholas Lorimer, Marius Roodt and Hermann Pretorius discuss the recent defeat of President Ramaphosa at a meeting of the ANC NEC, a case brought by wine farmers to get wine unbanned and we consider why no one is rating South Africa as a likely success in the 2020s.
4 Aug 2020 9AM English South Africa News Commentary · Politics

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