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Why diversify?

As South Africa's miners go back to work, we ask whether the biggest strike since the days of white rule has upset Africa's most successful growth story? And, is the answer economic diversification?

Today the six week strike at the South African platinum mine that led to the most deadly police action since the apartheid era comes to an end. President Jacob Zuma said this week that the disruption had cost the industry more than half a billion dollars in lost output but what about the effects on investor confidence and on the broader economy, asks Matthew Davies in Johannesburg.

Justin Rowlatt explores whether the solution to industrial unrest could lie in economic diversification with Andreas Woergoetter of the OECD and we hear from Nigeria about the challenges of an influx of unskilled workers.

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Thu 20 Sep 2012 11:32GMT

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