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07 May 2010
 
 
SA studies Brazil’s model for leveraging industry through procurement
REAL ECONOMY: PROCUREMENT POLICY
The decision by the Brazilian government to set a 65% to 75% local-content condition on companies seeking to secure concessional funding from the country’s influential development bank, BNDES,...
 
 
30 Apr 2010
 
Chancellor House must be dismantled before SA can slay party-funding dragon
REAL ECONOMY: POLITICS & BUSINESS
Perhaps by the time you read this, the African National Congress (ANC) would have moved decisively to deal with entirely improper structure that is the Chancellor House Trust - or, perhaps not....
 
 
16 Apr 2010
 
SA’s new electricity wholesaler will need to own the transmission network
REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY PLANNING
It appears increasingly likely that the long-anticipated unbundling of the power transmission business from State utility Eskom - a scenario that has been mooted for nearly 20 years - might finally...
 
 
09 Apr 2010
 
Review call made as Nersa again rebuffs Transnet on pipeline tariffs
REAL ECONOMY: PIPELINE TARIFFS
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has indicated that it will continue investigations and consultations on the appropriate tariff structuring after again granting Transnet a...
 
 
02 Apr 2010
 
Are SA’s political and business elites suffering from an overinflated sense of entitlement?
REAL ECONOMY: STATE OF MIND
In their popular book “Freakonomics”, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner relate the story of small bagel-delivery service started by Paul Feldman, an agricultural economist, while he was working...
 
 
26 Mar 2010
 
New industrial offset instrument to include ‘stronger’ targets
REAL ECONOMY: INDUSTRIAL POLICY
While the key thrust of “leveraging procurement” for industrialisation in South Africa hinges on a transition from unstructured procurement practices toward “fleet-type” purchasing...
 
 
19 Mar 2010
 
SA also has some big decisions to make regarding liquid energy
REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
South Africa’s energy infrastructure environment is in a serious state of flux. Citizens are all too aware of the crisis with regards electricity. But we are probably less alive to the fact that...
 
 
12 Mar 2010
 
State should seize iron-ore initiative and move debate into developmental realm
REAL ECONOMY: CORPORATE DISPUTE
Without question, there is very little sympathy out there for ArcelorMittal South Africa in its fight to hold on to a favourable 25-year iron-ore arrangement with Sishen Iron Ore Company (SIOC)....
 
 
 
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