South Africa Economy Rebounds From Strikes to Expand 3.8%

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South Africa’s economy, the continent’s largest, grew at the fastest pace in two years last quarter as mining and manufacturing recovered from strikes.

Gross domestic product rose an annualized 3.8 percent compared with 0.7 percent in the third quarter, the statistics office said in a report released today in the capital, Pretoria. The median estimate of 21 economists in a Bloomberg survey was