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Viewers: 50,002 By Twiine Charles  There is something deeply unsettling about watching a nation once held up as the moral compass of a continent begin to lose its way. The recent wave of vigilante violence in Pretoria and other parts of South Africa forces a difficult question. Has the spirit of Ubuntu, the very philosophy that helped define the …

Africa’s so-called banking powerhouse, Nigeria’s Access Bank, is once again under the spotlight after another high-profile merger deal spectacularly collapsed—this time in South Africa. Barely months after Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank (FTB) was left gasping for air following a failed takeover promise, Access Bank has now walked away from a Sh625.4 billion agreement to acquire 100% of Bidvest Bank Holdings …