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Tim Cohen is Editor of Financial Mail and a columnist for Business Day, both South African publications. His book A Piece of the Pie: The Battle Over Nationalisation was released in 2012.
After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?
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