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Amid the prevailing economic gloom and doom, it came as welcome relief to learn that South Africa’s foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows rose 269% in 2011 – climbing to $4.5-billion last...

Eversheds SA appoints new Chairman to lead the firm’s growth as advisor to foreign investors on the continent

EVERSHEDS

The leading South African and global law firm, Eversheds, announced the appointment of Lavery Modise as the Chairman of Eversheds South Africa. Modise, a former acting Labour Court judge, has...

World lacks enough food, fuel as population soars

POPULATION

The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to three-billion people into poverty,...

SA: Zuma: Address by the President of South Africa, at the Nepad heads of State and Government Committee (28/01/2012)

Topics

This African Union Summit takes place when the world is facing a global economic crisis.

SACP: Statement by Jeremy Cronin, South African Communist Party deputy general secretary, on democratic popular power (26/01/2012)

Statements

The dominance of neo-liberal economic ideology over the past three decades has had its counterpart in the re-emergence of liberal socio-political categories. Generally, the left has mounted a...

SA’s strong FDI recovery not enough to lift Africa

FOREIGN INVESTMENT

A 269% recovery in South Africa’s foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2011, which climbed to $4.5-billion from a revised 2010 figure of $1.2-billion, was not sufficient to reverse the...

Global FDI defies crisis to jump 17% in 2011

ECONOMY

Global foreign direct investment flows jumped by 17% in 2011 despite worldwide economic turmoil and there is reason to be cautiously optimistic of another rise in 2012, a United Nations report said...

Intellectual property: Ownership for all

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

An enormous amount of intellectual energy has gone into the global response to HIV & AIDS over the past 30 years. The results have been visible in local, national, and international spheres at...

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