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9 February 2012
                       
 
 
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08 Feb 2012
 
 
ANC mine study seeks new taxes, buries nationalisation
NATIONALISATION
A study submitted to South Africa's ruling ANC to reform its vital mining sector proposes a 50% tax on profits and rejects nationalisation as an "unmitigated disaster" for Africa's largest economy.
 
 
03 Feb 2012
 
Good news, but . . .
REAL ECONOMY: FOREIGN INVESTMENT
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...
 
 
25 Jan 2012
 
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...
 
 
24 Jan 2012
 
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...
 
 
23 Jan 2012
 
Heavyweight industry group issues carbon tax warning
CARBON TAXES
An industry lobby group comprising large mining groups and mineral processing companies is cautioning against the proposed introduction of a carbon tax in South Africa until South Africa has fully...
 
 
13 Dec 2011
 
African Faith Communities Can Fight Corruption Too
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The growing influence of religion, not least Christianity and Islam, in Africa is being rapidly acknowledged by many. In the case of Christians, we notice in particular the rise of Pentecostal-type...
 
 
05 Dec 2011
 
‘Hundreds of thousands of jobs’, clean power from fuel cells – Anglo
ENERGY
The window of opportunity is “wide open” for South Africa to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and simultaneously obtain a source of clean emission-free power, Anglo American CEO Cynthia...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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