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Interview with Dilley Naidoo on eNCA Today (DSTV Channel 403)

23rd November 2020 — Caroline Carter, RSPH

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says the decision by ratings agencies Fitch and Moody’s to downgrade South Africa further into junk status is a painful one, and to that end the country is looking continually at ways of boosting the economy.

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