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Business sees infrastructure as key 2012 ‘shock absorber’, but wary on delivery

Actual delivery on South Africa’s R802-billion public infrastructure programme could offer an important “shock absorber” for the South African economy in the context of the...

SACP: Statement by Malesela Maleka, South African Communist Party spokesperson, on the central committee meeting (04/12/2011)

Statements

The SACP Augmented Central Committee met in Randburg over the weekend of 2 – 4 December 2011. It has become the practice of the SACP to hold an augmented meeting that includes districts...

SA: Sisulu: Address by the Parliamentary speaker, at the globe legislative forum conference on climate change, in the National Assembly (03/12/2011)

2011

It is an honour for me to welcome this august gathering to Cape Town, at the foot of Table Mountain, which was recently declared one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

SA: Joemat-Pettersson: Address by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, at a COP17 media briefing, Durban (02/12/2011)

2011

Tomorrow, we are co-hosting the Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) with the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) at the Durban University of Technology.

News this week

UPDATE

World economies are sliding as a result of eurozone debt problems and failure by European leaders to make the right decisions to resolve the crisis will have massive consequences for the global...

SA: Zuma: Address by the President of South Africa, at the cities and local government covention, Durban (02/12/2011)

2011

Good morning to you all! Thank you for inviting us to this Local Government and Cities Convention.

The state we're in

REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

The World Bank has lowered its baseline growth forecasts for South Africa for 2011, from 3.5%, in July, to 3.2%, and has warned that the downside risks to the country’s growth outlook for 2012...

Gauteng has the highest OECD metro-region unemployment rate

REGIONAL PLANNING

At 26.0% in the first quarter this year, the Gauteng city-region has the highest unemployment rate among about twenty metropolitan territories reviewed by the Organisation for Economic Development...

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