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After not downgrading South Africa's debt to "non-investment grade", or so-called "junk status" in June 2016, Standard & Poor's (S&P) are scheduled to review this rating again in December.

The country has six months to get its house in order and the man with his hand on the tiller is the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan. It will be the implementation of his policies that the ratings agencies will be watching carefully.

The 麻豆社鈥檚 Lerato Mbele sat down with him and got his reaction to last week's decision by S&P, and how he intends to avoid a downgrade by the end of the year.