South Africa’s sudden resolve to sell its cash-burning state-owned firms provides key learning for Nigeria as it desperately seeks to ease pressure on government finances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fiscal crisis it is inflicting. South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni see
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