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Declaring that he was confident that the country would, for the second time this year, avoid a catastrophic downgrading of its sovereign debt rating to ''junk'', Pravin Gordhan has once more come out fighting for Team SA.The finance minister emphasised yesterday that, although the economy is not in recession, we need to do things ''spectacularly differently" over the next year to transform the ''small green shoots'' now manifesting into rapid, sustainable economic growth.