Tributes to Nelson Mandela still abound in South Africa’s financial capital, not far from where the country’s first black president died in December last year. One such is a huge banner hanging down the outside wall of Citi’s Africa head office. There are many others.
Speaking nearby at a conference on the economy at GIBS business school in Johannesburg, Goolam Ballim, chief economist at Standard Bank, says Mandela’s funeral was the occasion for “a moment of reflection” on South Africa’s post-apartheid trajectory.
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