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Michael Cohen and

Rene Vollgraaff

December 9, 2015, 10:19 PM UTCUpdated onDecember 10, 2015, 12:59 PM UTC

If the appointment of South Africa’s new finance minister has alarmed investors, it may be because they’ve never heard of him.

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