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Tongaat makes good progress on power-generation plans

The environmental-impact assessment and plant-construction contracting processes for JSE-listed agriculture and property group Tongaat Hulett’s proposed 80 MW power station, were well advanced,...

Unemployment and immigration in South Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Unemployment has long been a major preoccupation for the South African Government. Based on a narrow definition of unemployment - those people who had not worked for the previous seven days but...

SA: Sibusiso Ndebele: Address by Minister of Correctional Services, at the 15th Annual African Renaissance Conference, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

SPEECH

We are assembled here today on the occasion of the 15th annual African Renaissance Conference. On Saturday, Africa Day, South Africa will join the continent in commemorating the 50th anniversary of...

SA: Kgalema Motlanthe: Adress by the President of South Africa, at the 15th African Renaissance, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal (23/05/2013)

SPEECH

I thank you for the opportunity to address the 15th African Renaissance Conference today. What imbues this year’s African Renaissance Conference with an epic atmosphere is that this is its 15th...

The role of entrepreneurship and innovation in improving the health status of Sub-Saharan Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In the last 10 years or so, Africa has experienced a wave of innovative efforts in the technology, agriculture and services sectors, which have immensely improved the lives of Africans. For...

Carbon tax: business needs to join the debate, before it’s too late

SAICA

The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants [SAICA] has urged all South African businesses to participate actively in the consultation process around the government’s proposed carbon...

Drug trafficking in West Africa: Threatening regional peace, stability and security

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

This paper discusses how drug trafficking in West Africa causes severe economic, social, political and public health problems across the whole region. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

SA: Statement by the Parliament of South Africa, on the first bilateral meeting with European Parliament in South Africa (16/05/2013)

STATEMENT

The economic and political future of the world depends on regional cooperation and multilateral relations between countries, the President of the European Parliament, Mr Martin Schulz, noted during...

New growth ‘bargain’

REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

A leading International Monetary Fund (IMF) official last week urged South Africa’s social partners of government, labour and business to pursue a “broad national bargain” to overcome the...

SA manufacturers have turned export attention to Africa - survey

MANUFACTURING

A new Manufacturing Circle survey shows that South African manufacturers are responding to the market opportunities opening up as a result of strong growth in the rest of Africa, which has already...

WWEA: Statement by the World Wind Energy Association, international non-profit association representing the wind power sector, on the World Wind Energy Report 2012 (16/05/2013)

STATEMENT

Due to its abundant natural hydro- and geothermal resources, Iceland generates already today 100% of its electricity using renewable resources, with about 70% coming from hydropower and 30% from...

The balancing act in low income countries: Financial stability vs. growth

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Over the past decades Africa has increasingly opened up its economy to international trade and finance. This change has often been at the bequest of, or under pressure from, the International...

Clamping down on corruption in Africa's extractive industries

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

How to better utilise the wealth from Africa’s non-renewable resources – oil, gas and minerals – to eradicate poverty in Africa? This was one of the important questions asked at discussions...

SA: Kgalema Motlanthe: Address by the Deputy President of South Africa, on the occasion of the South African Legislative Sector's International Consultative Seminar, Cape Town (14/05/2013)

SPEECH

I am once again honoured to address this annual International Consultative Seminar of the South African Legislative Sector in collaboration with the European Union Parliament. I wish to convey...

Mali asks donors for two billion euros to rebuild country

DONATION

Mali will ask international donors for nearly €2-billion to help rebuild the country and try to halt a resurgence of al Qaeda-linked Islamists who were driven out of the major northern towns by a...

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