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Clamping down on corruption in Africa's extractive industries

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...

Economics before politics: Is China’s policy of political non-interference the key to Africa’s economic development?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

China’s rapidly increasing investments in Africa over the past two decades have focused renewed attention on the development path of African countries. While economic growth seems to be an...

Will President Morsi’s consolidation of political power bring Egypt forward in 2013?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The year 2012 proved to be a mixed experience for Egypt and President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government. While Morsi received both regional and international compliments for his...

Will President Morsi’s consolidation of political power bring Egypt forward in 2013?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The year 2012 proved to be a mixed experience for Egypt and President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government. While Morsi received both regional and international compliments for his...

WTO: Pascal Lamy: Address by the World Trade Organisation Director General, at the IISS-Oberoi Discussion Forum, Delhi (29/01/2013)

SPEECH

India’s trade volumes have registered healthy growth. Indian companies have thrived at home, and steadily expanded their presence abroad. Without downplaying the enormity of the challenges India...

Shedding light on the shadow economy: Business and strategy in Africa’s informal markets

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The large informal sector in African economies communicates a demand-supply equation for entrepreneurs that promises profit through hidden opportunities in all facets of economic activity. From...

SA: Gill Marcus: Address by Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, to the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF), at the Nat Nakasa Awards, Durban (28/07/2012)

SPEECH

Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to address you this evening. You as members of the media are at the forefront of information dissemination. You pursue stories, are seminal in...

Is East Africa the 'new frontier' for oil and gas exploration opportunities?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

One conclusion drawn from the annual 'Africa Oil Week', held in Cape Town, South Africa, between 31 October and 4 November 2011, was that the East African region holds great potential for...

The role of mass media in armed conflict: A Libyan case study

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

“From the cowardice which shrinks from new truth, from the laxness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, oh God of truth, deliver us!”(2) When it...

BRICS – Is South Africa being taken seriously by its new 'partners'?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

On 13 April 2011, BRIC officially became known as BRICS, when the Republic of South Africa formally joined the bloc of influential emerging-market nations of the People’s Republic of China, the...

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The South African Reserve Bank will not hesitate to take timely action to ensure "second-round" inflation does not bed down in the economy, Deputy Governor Daniel Mminele says. He also says that...

SA: Ebrahim: Address by the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, at the BRICS round-table discussion hosted by the IMC and Financial Times (11/05/2011)

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Date: 11/05/2011
Source: The Department of International Relations and Cooperation
Title: SA: Ebrahim: Address by the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation,...

Daily podcast – January 6, 2011

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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced that some 67,8% of matrics passed last year's exams – up from 60,7% in 2009, World Bank President Robert Zoellick says that free markets rather...

SA is torn between the paths of secrecy and transparency

IDASA

SA is capable of sustaining two narratives. One, which provoked a Financial Times editorial suggesting the Protection of Information Bill represents the path to Zimbabwe, is cloaked in secrecy. The...

SA: Gordhan: Address by the Minister of Finance, on the role of the National Council of Provinces in cooperative government and intergovernmental relations, in the National Council of Provinces (26/08/2010)

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Date: 26/08/2010
Source: The National Treasury
Title: SA: Gordhan: Address by the Minister of Finance, on the role of the National Council of Provinces in cooperative government and...

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