South Africa saw its economic freedom score slip from 62.6 to 61.9 in the latest Index of Economic Freedom report released by the Heritage Foundation in Washington this week. This was contrary to the overall trend for southern Africa which saw the regional freedom score improve from 54.9 to 55.5. South Africa was rated as the seventh most free economy in Africa and as one of only ten African economies rated as ‘mostly free’ or ‘moderately free’. Mauritius, Botswana, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Ghana and the Seychelles all lead South Africa … Read the full article…