Fund managers gear up down south

- WatersTechnology Staff
- 05 Mar 2009

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South Africa is an unusual place. It's a country full of contradictions and incongruities that become immediately apparent during the short journey from Cape Town International Airport to the mother city some 30 minutes away. Flanking the N2 motorway on both sides as one drives towards the slopes of Table Mountain are informal (squatter) settlements, the houses of which consist of corrugated iron and plastic sheeting... and yet most have telephone lines radiating outwards to them from

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