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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are widely considered a major contributor towards the South African economy and one of the biggest contributors to job creation, yet despite this, the SME...
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has signed three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with its counterparts from China, Russia and Brazil to facilitate mutual cooperation for improved...
BRICS Trade Ministers met for the third time in Durban, South Africa on the eve of the Fifth BRICS Summit convened under the theme “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Development, Integration and...
The Republic of Korea’s remarkable economic and social growth can be attributed to innovation, with its success most salient in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. The...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) signed today a US $8-million Line of Credit (LoC) to support BRD lending to the agriculture, agro-processing,...
A recent study by DHL Express and IHS Global has revealed that international trade and cooperation has become a key driver of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) success globally, which is...
As economies around the world implement changes to make regulations for domestic firms more business friendly, the annual Doing Business report measures reforms aimed at making it easier to start...
The statement was signed by the Deputy Director-General for broadening participation at the Department of Trade and Industry in South Africa, Mr Sipho Zikode, and the Secretary for Small and...
“It is through the strengthening of the relations between the emerging economies that we can actually realise the number of objectives which we are setting ourselves. These will enable us to...
Our role as government is to promote the creation of a better life for all our people. In doing so, we work closely with the social partners represented at National Economic Development and Labour...
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to be here today on this, the seventh GovTech event, happens at an important time for our endeavours, as the South African Government is awarded its second...
Looking back at the World Economic Forum on Africa one might conclude that the future for Africa is looking rather bright. However, issues of obstacles and pitfalls were obviously raised and it is...
In his speech at the opening of the ANC’s Policy Conference on 26 June, President Zuma said that “the economic power relations of the apartheid era have in the main remained intact. The...
During the build-up to the G20 Summit in Mexico and the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil, over 600 economic, financial and political policymakers met on 8-10 June in Libreville, Gabon, for the first New...
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for 2011 indicates that the percentage of South Africa’s population between 18 and 64 years, either in the process of starting a business or involved in...