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5th Annual Brics Summit: Not a new case of club diplomacy

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

There has not been a group of countries who have come together in recent years and quite captured the imagination like the BRICS. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa would have seemed...

Tearing souls apart: The destruction of shrines in Timbuktu and the concept of cultural genocide

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In June 2012, the Islamic group Ansar Dine (a radical group with alleged links to al-Qaeda) took control of Timbuktu in northern Mali. The threat posed to the city, which contains thousands of...

IMF: Christine Lagarde: Address by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, on transforming the financial sector landscape, during the Frankfurt Finance Summit, Germany (19/03/2013)

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Bonjour! Guten Tag ! Good day. It is a pleasure to be back in Germany and to be a part of this year’s Frankfurt Finance Summit. I would like to thank Dr. Lutz Raettig, the Chairman of the Board...

Shooting wildlife in the heart of Africa: In some places now only with a camera

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In November 2012, the president of Botswana, Lieutenant General Ian Khama, announced that the country would not issue any more hunting licenses for 2013, and by 1 January 2014 all hunting would be...

Africa needs $40bn/y to meet future power demand – report

RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY

It is estimated that at least $40-billion a year is required to meet future demand in the African power sector, compared with current yearly investment of less than one-quarter this amount, New...

SA: Statement by the Department of Trade and Industry, on Procter and Gamble's announcement of a investment of more than R1.6-billion in a new Green Field Manufacturing facility (16/03/2013)

STATEMENT

South Africa’s investor confidence has received a boost with the Procter and Gamble Company’s (P&G) announcement of a significant investment of more than R1.6 billion in a new Green Field...

IIED: Statement by the International Institute for Environment and Development, independent policy research institute, alliance of research institutes identifies major shifts to achieve sustainable development (13/03/2013)

STATEMENT

The recommendations come in a paper published today by the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda, whose members include IIED and other think tanks in Africa,...

SA: Statement by Alan Winde, Western Cape Minister of Tourism, on Cape Town International Airport being rated Africa's best for third year in a row (12/03/2013)

STATEMENT

Cape Town International Airport has been rated the “Best Airport in Africa” in the Airports Council International (ACI) 2012 Airport Service Quality Awards (ASQ). This is the third year in a...

World Manufacturing Production Statistics for Quarter 4, 2012 (March 2013)

Manufacturing

Global manufacturing output rose by merely 1.2% in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the same period in the previous year, the lowest quarterly growth rate in the last three years,...

SA: Blade Nzimande: Address by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, at BRICS Academic Forum Banqueting Dinner, Durban University of Technology (11/03/2013)

SPEECH

It gives me great pleasure to be able to meet with you, academics and researchers from leading developing economies. For those of you who have come from outside South Africa, I’d like to welcome...

DLF: Statement by the Democratic Left Front, non-sectarian and non-authoritarian anti-capitalist front, celebrates the revolutionary and emancipatory life and symbolism of Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (10/03/2013)

STATEMENT

The Democratic Left Front (DLF) joins the millions of poor and working people and their mass movements in Venezuela, the Caribbean, Latin America and across the world who celebrate the...

Africa Rising: Mzansi House, Afrobeats and Afro-optimism

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

This CAI paper explores the rising popularity of African house music, within the context of this genre as a global phenomenon, and links it to the narrative of the rise of Africa that has recently...

SA: Statement by Erahim Patel, Economic Development Minister, on infrastructure development and job creation (07/03/2013)

STATEMENT

We welcome you to the post State of the Nations Address media briefing. This briefing is an opportunity to share with yourselves and the rest of the country progress and plans with regard to...

SA: Statement by Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Tourism, on tourism growth in 2012 (06/03/2013)

STATEMENT

South Africa has once again announced increasing tourism numbers: The months from January until October 2012 showed an increase of 10,4%, with 7 535 498 tourist arrivals compared to 6 823 517...

SA: Moeletsi Mbeki: Address by South African Institute of International Affairs deputy chairman, during a presentation on South Africa's way forward, East London (06/03/2013)

SPEECH

There is only one way to answer the question where is South Africa going; it is by answering where South Africa comes firstly and secondly by answering where it stands today.

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