South Africa's economy is suddenly 4.9% bigger, and the government owes exactly as much as it did

Business BagelChristian Maidman · 3 November 2026 at 03:00

Stats SA has re-measured the economy and found more of it, some of it in illegal mines, which makes the national debt look lighter without shrinking a single rand of it.

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