This is especially important in South Africa where businesses with fewer than five employees represent 94% of small businesses.

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Malema's controversial road to fame includes his calls to seize white-owned farms in South Africa, especially incendiary in a nation with a history of racial tensions.

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"Our findings confirm that rape of girls, especially in school, is a substantial public health problem in South Africa, " she said.

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Yet another competitor is an Islamic revivalist movement, Tablighi Jamaat, rooted in south Asia but active in Africa and Europe, especially Britain.

ECONOMIST: Global Muslim networks

The book is also a devastating indictment of the 15-country Southern African Development Community and especially of South Africa, its leading member, for failing to admit what happened in its bizarre determination to keep Mr Mugabe on his throne.

ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

The cosmetic changes his government made in its segregationist policies to improve South Africa's image abroad, especially its very limited acceptance of multiracial sport, provoked such vituperative fury from Mr Marais and other die-hards that they were dubbed verkramptes (the cramped ones) and expelled from the Nationalist Party in 1969.

ECONOMIST: Jaap Marais

Few countries are as mad about sport as South Africa: for whites especially, rugby and cricket are the prime sources of national pride in victory and shame in defeat.

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In a democracy dominated by one party, as South Africa is, a free press is an especially important check on the abuse of power by the government.

ECONOMIST: South Africa's politics