It has started to become grating. Another week of meetings in Cape Town and Johannesburg and the refrain “oh, you are quite positive” comes out.

I roll my eyes and let out a groan normally reserved for South Africans putting ice cubes in wine. “But we haven’t even been talking about inequality, healthcare, education, corruption, labour markets, industrial policy or anything else,” I cry...

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