Opinion

Time for Africa to curb dependence on China

08 March 2020 - 00:00 By William Gumede

Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, may have the same devastating, growth- undermining effect on Africa that the 2015 stock market crash in China had on economies on the continent...

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