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Infrastructure, education, health sectors to attract private equity in 2013

Companies in the infrastructure, healthcare and education industries in South Africa are likely to attract deal interest from private equity houses in 2013, the South African Venture Capital &...

SA: Statement by the Cabinet, on meeting of 24 October 2012 (26/10/2012)

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Eighth Session of the Republic of South Africa - Democratic Republic of Congo Bi-National Commission (BNC), held in Pretoria Cabinet noted that at the invitation of President Jacob Zuma, His...

SA: Pravin Gordhan: Address by the Minister of Finance, on the tabling of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, Parliament, Cape Town (25/10/2012)

SPEECH

A year ago, Mister President, we drew attention to your statement of intent: “We want to have a country where millions more South Africans have decent employment opportunities, which has a modern...

SA: Statement by the Department of Transport, on the Bolani road project (28/09/2012)

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The twenty townships road programme was initiated with the intention to eradicate all past imbalances created by the previous regime in townships that were built prior to 1994, to create...

Daily podcast – August 24, 2012.

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The International Monetary Fund (or IMF) has welcomed South Africa’s renewed drive to invest in public infrastructure. However, it says a “rigorous but prompt” assessment of key projects is...

IMF welcomes SA’s infrastructure push, calls for greater private sector role

INFRASTRUCTURE

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has welcomed South Africa’s renewed drive to invest in public infrastructure, but says a “rigorous but prompt” assessment of key projects is needed to...

SA: Nhlanhla Nene: Address by the Deputy Minister of Finance, at the Banking Summit, Banking Association, Johannesburg (21/08/2012)

SPEECH

Ladies gentlemen, it is an honour to address you this morning on behalf of the Deputy President. As you know, the country is going through a difficult period after the tragedy in Marikana. The...

Infrastructure, women and economic growth: How infrastructure has the power to empower

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

It has been noted that ample infrastructure is a key component of productivity and economic growth,(2) particularly for developing countries. The implementation of adequate infrastructure would...

DLF: Statement by the Democratic Left Front, responding to the Rio+20 conference (23/06/2012)

STATEMENTS

As a South African eco-socialist organisation which actively mobilised at the Durban COP17 Summit, the Democratic Left Front (DLF) issues this statement in response to the concept of the “Green...

SACP: Statement by Jeremy Cronin, South African Communist Party deputy secretary general, on the e-toll saga (16/03/2012)

Statements

The e-toll debate has often been presented in the media in crude "for or against" terms. As a result the underlying socio-economic (and therefore class) issues have been seriously...

Cosatu: Statement by Patrick Craven, Congress of South African Trade Unions spokesperson, on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (25/10/2011)

Statements

The Congress of South African Trade Unions notes the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement by the Minister of Finance. It sets a forward-looking framework over the next 3 years and makes...

Gordhan confirms R802bn infrastructure stimulus vision

MTBPS 2011

Infrastructure was again emphasised in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) as government seeks to shift its expenditure over the medium-term in the direction of growth-supporting...

Public–Private Partnerships: A new path to development in Southern Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Africa has seen the rise of a new structure in public service provision that not only augments the capacities of Governments, but improves service delivery and creates employment for its citizens....

New Ministerial committee will seek to reduce megaproject red tape

INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT

The high-level Ministerial committee that has been established to reduce the red tape around job- and growth-generating capital projects would probably focus its attention on mega-scale...

SACP: Statement by Jeremy Cronin, South African Communist Party deputy general secretary, on party critics (02/06/2011)

Statements

Reading the headline of a recent story in the Business Report, I was reminded of one of Joe Slovo's (probably apocryphal) stories about the Soviet Union. In 1956 at the 20th Congress of...

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