WEF's value all on the sidelines

08 September 2019 - 00:08 By HILARY JOFFE

Opposite the entrance to the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), where the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF Africa) was held this week, was a giant Absa-branded dome which the banking group built for the occasion. It highlighted the point - which the great and the good who meet at the WEF often make - that the forum is less about what happens inside than outside...

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