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24 May 2013
Opinion
 
 
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14 Sep 2012
 
 
Jobs for Africa?
REAL ECONOMY: AFRICA OUTLOOK
The research arm of international consulting group McKinsey & Company believes that Africa has the potential to create 72-million wage-paying jobs by 2020, primarily in agriculture, manufacturing,...
 
 
31 Aug 2012
 
Use the plan
REAL ECONOMY: SOCIAL COMPACT
Ongoing service delivery protests, the Limpopo textbook saga and, far more graphically, the Marikana tragedy all serve to highlight the social distance that has emerged between South Africa’s...
 
 
17 Aug 2012
 
Game changers?
REAL ECONOMY: MEGAPROJECTS
It was interesting to learn recently that the Department of Public Enterprises is moving to collect and disseminate ‘best practices’ relating to the management of the complex procurement and...
 
 
10 Aug 2012
 
Facing headwinds
REAL ECONOMY: AFRICA OUTLOOK
Africa’s 2012 economic growth outlook is facing headwinds from a range of sources, not least the current crisis in Europe, African Development Bank (AfDB) chief economist Professor Mthuli Ncube...
 
 
03 Aug 2012
 
Reindustrialisation Recipe?
REAL ECONOMY: INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Few would disagree with Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies when he expresses the view that no developed economy has achieved its status without first going through a process of...
 
 
27 Jul 2012
 
Beyond leadership
REAL ECONOMY: SUCCESSFUL NATIONS
The clamour for leadership in South Africa has become so loud as to be deafening. For that reason, I sat up and paid serious attention when Professor James Robinson – the Harvard academic who...
 
 
20 Jul 2012
 
Maximum benefit
REAL ECONOMY: RESOURCES & INDUSTRY
Much attention has been paid over the past few months to South Africa’s aspiration for greater value addition, or beneficiation, of its minerals ahead of export. However, there appears to be a...
 
 
13 Jul 2012
 
Vital conversation
REAL ECONOMY: MINING POLICY
The importance of the mining industry to South Africa’s economic expansion cannot be disputed. There are also few who would discount the assessment that the country still houses a resources...
 
 
 
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