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South Africa: Stocks to Watch in 2021

[Daily Maverick] Investors had high hopes for the JSE in 2020. After a lacklustre five years, ending December 2019, when the JSE managed subpar returns of 6% and barely beat inflation, it was hoped that 2020 would be the year of recovery. Instead, it's been a year of wild rides beginning in March, when bourses around the world crashed on the news that Covid-19 was a pandemic.

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