A vendor waits for customers at his store inside an African craft market in the Rosebank district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. South Africa, on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. More than four years of currency declines -- to a fresh low this week -- aren't enough to offset electricity shortages, strikes and slowing demand from Asia and Europe that are pushing the economy to the brink of recession. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images