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Chairperson; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen: I would like to first thank Chatham House for hosting me today to speak about the economic, social and political challenges facing South...
In less than 20 years from now, emerging economies would have the most “economic weight” as they came to dominate global investments, a World Bank Global Development Horizons report has found....
Trade and investment relations between two of the fastest growing regions currently, namely Asia and Africa, are growing in importance. Asia, in particular, is fast becoming Africa’s largest...
This May Day occurs at a time when the Congress movement is hard at work
trying to change the lives of our people for the better. This is more
significant today because the country is under attack...
World Trade Organisation (WTO) general council chairperson Shahid Bashir on Monday announced that Herminio Blanco, of Mexico, and Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo, of Brazil, had progressed to the...
Our countries are deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. While this has been known since nuclear weapons were first developed and is reflected in...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has selected five candidates to proceed to the second round of consultations in the selection of a successor to outgoing director-general Pascal Lamy. These are...
We believe that the Bill severely undermines freedom of association enshrined in the Constitution of Indonesia and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Indonesia is a...
Over the past decade, drones (2) have played a large role in the American war on terror.(3) Drones are often discussed in the context of extra-judicial killings,(4) loss of privacy,(5) and...
The Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues (CGETI) is a key platform for BRICS Members to exchange views on a range of economic, trade and investment related issues. The exchange of policy...
KPMG recently hosted a roundtable discussion, lead by its Global Chairman Michael Andrew, ahead of the Fifth BRICS Summit taking place in Durban next week.
This Summit is expected to include a...
It is worth pausing to digest some of the findings of a recent report released by the World Bank, entitled ‘Growing Africa: Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness’. In summary, the document...
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...
Manufacturing creates jobs directly, generally quality employment. It has a positive impact on forex, both on export earnings and in reducing the import bill. It expands the technological base of...
A gender benchmarking study has found that the levels of female representation in the science, technology and innovation (STI) fields in the world’s leading economies were not only “alarmingly...