Amid "near collapse," South Africa’s ruling African National Congress gushed a double whammy of capital-flight-creating rulings this afternoon. The Rand is tumbling after the ANC agreed that land should be expropriated (from whites) without compensation, and perhaps even more worrisome, the Reserve Bank be wholly owned by the state.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-20/zar-tumbles-south-africa-decides-nationalize-central-bank-confiscate-land

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