Is South Africa setting its benchmarks too low? Johannesburg, for example

Update: 2025-08-04

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Are South Africans too nice? Do we demand too little of ourselves, constantly making excuses for our underperformance and over-congratulating ourselves on minor gains? Merchant banker Mark Barnes and journalist Tim Cohen discuss this in connection with the International Mathematics Olympiad and Johannesburg. Then there is also tariff torture, inflation, and, as always, leadership.

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Is South Africa setting its benchmarks too low? Johannesburg, for example

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Is South Africa setting its benchmarks too low? Johannesburg, for example