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Is South Africa becoming the once rich uncle who lost it all?

By Sihle Mlambo | Published Feb 21, 2025

Increasingly, Uncle Azania is waking up every morning to go to work to fend his family, but at the end of every month it increasingly feels like there's always an unpaid bill, electricity this month, the car last month, the school fees the month previous and so it goes, writes Sihle Mlambo