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Analyst claims WTO membership decimated South African shoe industry

17/10/2011

An influential political analyst in South Africa, Moeletsi Mbeki, has told local media that joining the World Trade Organisation led to almost a complete collapse of the South African footwear industry. South Africa joined the World Trade Organisation in 1995, and, according to Mr Mbeki (deputy chairman of the South African Institute of...

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