MoneywebAtMidday - Top Story 08 Dec 2023
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Dawie Roodt : Economist
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A roundup of the day’s news including local astronomers working with Nasa to find out more about dwarf planet Pluto.
[TOP STORY] Cape Town has the highest number of centi-millionaires in Africa
‘Although there are only about 400 centi-millionaires in Africa, if you were to take those 400 people away, it would completely destroy the middle class, for instance, because most of the big companies in Africa were started by those centi-millionaires,’ says Andrew Amolis, head of research at New World Wealth.
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[TOP STORY] Road Accident Fund proposing to exclude higher income claimants
‘We are going to come up with a proposal to say, people in this kind of pay grade should not be covered by the RAF, but rich people for now, we're just saying should not be covered by the RAF,’ says McIntosh Polela, Road Accident Fund spokesperson.