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South Africa’s Finance Minister cut the country’s 2014 growth down to 2.7%. Ahead of elections later this year, Pravin Gordhan had to walk a fine line between dealing with a slow recovery from a recession that peaked 5 years ago, as well as tackling rising unemployment and mining sector strikes among others. For ordinary South Africans however, GDP growth numbers aren’t the problem. As CCTV’s Sumitra Nydoo explains, persistent poverty, is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl3MOFpFsls