Risk Alert | ANC launches 2024 campaign

20 March 2023 - In this week’s exclusive client Risk Alert, we look at the ANC’s 2024 general election campaign kick-off, in what should be the hotly contested province of KwaZulu-Natal.

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We also argue that South Africa is now trending in the direction of a failed state, as the mining sector continues to deteriorate, and the economy lingers in the doldrums.

We close with a look at how the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia — facilitated by China — will impact the tussle between China and the United States for influence in the Middle East.