CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - FEBRUARY 22: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana during the 2023 National Budget Speech at the Cape Town City Hall on February 22, 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa. The budget speech provides an overview of the economy of the previous and current years, and also gives budget estimates for the next financial year.
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2024 represents one of the most unusual years in the global political sphere. Billions of citizens from over 60 countries will take to the polls to express their views regarding who should lead them through the trying times we live in.
For most of these countries, this will be the first full elections since the advent of a pandemic that distinguished leaders from pretenders and highlighted the fragility of leadership within countries and across international institutions.
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