
South Africa’s push to diversify its trade and investment partners has increasingly turned toward the Middle East and tensions could test the country’s export desk. Yet as geopolitical tensions simmer across the region, the key question policymakers will be observing is how resilient these partnerships are to instability.
Pretoria’s economic diplomacy in recent years has sought to move up the mineral value chain by expanding into emerging economies in the Global South. Middle Eastern economies, abundant with sovereign wealth, and ambitious pursuits to diversify and build strategic trade relations with the…
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Sweden: You have two cows. You offer them to the government, who gives everybody milk.
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UK: You have two cows. After a lengthy court battle, the bovines hold a referendum and are separated.