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The Misery Index is an economic measure that looks at the relationship between unemployment and inflation. South Africa, sadly, hovers between fifth and second place as one of the world’s most miserable nations. Venezuela has beat us for the past few years, and it would seem that it has secured th...OPINION: Eskom has reduced me to a nervous wreck
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The anxiety that I now experience when entering a lift is almost not worth the laziness of not using the stairs, writes Howard Feldman.
