·31 Jul 2025
South Africa’s economy is under severe pressure, and economists are worried that the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is heading to crisis levels.
South Africa’s GDP has averaged about 1.1% growth over the last fifteen years, dropping to just 0.7% over the past decade.
With South Africa’s population growing at around 1.5% per year, South Africans are getting poorer on a per capita basis with each passing year.
Now the country faces another year of sub-1% growth, while the National Treasury struggles to stabilise debt, which has…
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