For years, "circular economy" has been shorthand for recycling: a waste-management footnote to the real business of growth. South Africa is treating it as something closer to the opposite: a new source of growth in its own right. At the GFCC's September Monthly Call, Dr. Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director-General for Socio-Economic Innovation Partnerships at South Africa's Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, laid out a national strategy that reframes circularity a