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South Africa on track to lose its crown in Africa | SA News

Malcolm Libera
 ·8 Aug 2025

Due to unique trade and domestic challenges faced by South Africa, it could soon lose its crown position as Africa’s largest economy.

Azar Jammine, director and chief economist at Econometrix, highlighted this following the International Monetary Fund’s decision to keep South Africa’s 2025 growth forecast unchanged at just 1%. 

This is while revising upward the outlook for several other sub-Saharan African economies, which Jammine described as a sobering signal that South Africa is possibly becoming the real laggard of the…

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