It came as a genuine question and not an attempt to put me on the spot when Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad asked: “What are you positive about?”

Wanblad posed the question during an interview earlier this year in which I asked him about South Africa’s difficult investment environment. I squirmed uncomfortably, because there isn’t much in my purview that can be counted as a positive in South Africa’s macro picture. ..

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