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HARDtalk: Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance - South Africa

03/02/2011

Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance - South Africa

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Stephen Sackur speaks to South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Stephen Sackur asks South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan if Africa's most powerful economy is fulfilling its undoubted potential.

When the world's business and political elite recently gathered in Davos there was much discussion of global economic imbalances. Growth is rapid in the emerging economies, sluggish at best in the West. But with all the focus on the power of the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China, where does Africa fit in the picture? Stephen Sackur asks South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan if Africa's most powerful economy is fulfilling its undoubted potential.

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