16 highest-ranked reasons businesses are not keen on South Africa (in order, from most-cited):
- Inefficient government bureaucracy
- Restrictive labor regulations
- Inadequately educated workforce
- Policy instability
- Corruption
- Crime and theft
- Poor work ethic in national labor force
- Inadequate supply of infrastructure
- Tax rates
- Access to financing
- Inflation
- Foreign currency regulations
- Government instability
- Tax regulations
- Poor public health
- Insufficient capacity to innovate