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Pressure to deliver could lead to employees ignoring unethical business behaviour

A new survey by assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services company Ernst & Young (E&Y) has found that an alarming number of management and employees are turning a blind eye to the risks of...

Africa attractiveness survey 2013: Getting down to business (May 2013)

GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

Africa’s rise is real Africa’s rise over the past decade has been very real. While skeptics still abound, and there are people who still seek to debate the point, the evidence of the...

Peak phosphorus and future food security in Africa and beyond

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In a November 2012 report, the World Bank (WB) postulates that the global temperature is likely to increase by as much as 4 degrees Celsius (°C) by 2060.(2) This is double the 2°C aim that the...

Mixed fortunes in 2013 SA economic outlook – survey

ECONOMY

South Africa urgently needed to become more attractive to foreign investors if it wanted to be a viable contender as a global investment hotspot, Grant Thornton’s latest International Business...

Fitch downgrades unlikely to reverse in 2013

ECONOMY

Fitch Ratings on Monday said downgrades for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region were expected to outnumber upgrades this year – despite many corporate companies’ austerity measures...

FR: Statement by Fitch Ratings, global rating agency, on the effects of prolonged downturn (14/01/2013)

STATEMENT

The trailing three-month aggregate of revisions to Outlooks and Rating Watches, which has been a fairly good predictor of future rating changes, dropped towards the end of 2012. This suggests that...

SA: Statement by AfricaCom, Africa mobile subscriptions count to cross 750 million mark in fourth quarter of 2012 (12/11/2012)

STATEMENT

The number of mobile subscriptions in Africa will cross the 750 million mark during the fourth quarter of 2012 and reach one billion before the end of 2015, according to forecasts by Informa...

Sustainable consumption: Making the meat industry globally sustainable

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Humans are typically described as omnivores. The word omni is Latin for ‘all’or ‘everything’, and vore stems from the Latin word vorare, which means ‘to devour’.(2) The meaning behind...

SA: Statement by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, on National Exeutive Committee meeting discussions (01/11/2012)

STATEMENT

NUMSA held its scheduled National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting from the 29th to the 30th of October, 2012, at its headquarters in Johannesburg. The NUMSA NEC coordinates the implementation...

SA: Statement by Albert Fritz, Western Cape MEC for Social Development, on Early Childhood Development (24/10/2012)

STATEMENT

Good afternoon colleagues and thank you for affording me the opportunity to share some thoughts with you on the issue of Early Childhood Development (ECD). Before I start though, I want to commend...

Adams & Adams publishes definitive guide on IP protection in Africa

Adams & Adams

Adams & Adams the leading intellectual property law specialists in South Africa, and the largest intellectual property law firm in the Southern Hemisphere has recently published a book, on the...

SA: Statement by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, on meeting during the 9th Numsa National Congress (02/09/2012)

STATEMENT

A. Main Tasks of the August 2012 Numsa CC The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Central Committee (CC) met for the first time after the 9th Numsa National Congress from 27th to...

The future of the Arab Spring: Islam, Islamism, growing paranoia and future prospects (Part I)

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The year 2011 saw Libyan ‘revolutionaries’ call for democracy and human rights. However, the gruesome footage of the capture and subsequent death of Muammar Gaddafi indicates that the...

Africa: A testing ground for the International Criminal Court?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Since its birth, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has had Africa as its most substantial client base. This can be interpreted as evidence of the poor governance systems that remain prevalent...

SA: Mbeki: Address by former president of South Africa, at the Makerere conference, Kampala (19/01/2012)

Topics

First of all I would like to thank Professor Mamdani and the Makerere Institute of Social Research for taking the initiative to convene this Conference to discuss urgent and important matters that...

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