Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICAANALYSIS How to buy growth – for $100 billion 16th March 2012 Both trades unions and business question the accountability of the government’s huge public spending programme, which would invest 850 billion rand (US$112 bn.) in power generation, transport and telecommunications over the next three years, plus more than R400 bn. for six new nuclear power stations by 2030 The announcement of these grandiose schemes in Parliament last month coincides with leadership contests within the governing African National Congress, which will choose its presidential candidate at...
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA At the top, a three-way split 16th March 2012 The cabinet is split three ways over control over the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and infrastructure spending.
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA Business gets a seat at the table 16th March 2012 Infrastructure investment is financed partly from the National Treasury or appropriations by Parliament. Yet a large share of the finance comes from the budgets of state-owned enterprises (SOEs),...
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Euro-Right backs Boers 16th March 2012 Afrikaners complaining of a ‘Boer genocide’ are joining forces with far-right members of the European Parliament to protest the murder of white farmers in South Africa. In 2010,...
Vol 53 No 5 | MADAGASCARSOUTH AFRICA Who's the democrat now? 2nd March 2012 South Africa seeks a global role and is standing up for democracy – in Madagascar, anyway.
Vol 53 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA The state of Zuma’s nation 17th February 2012 The promises sound good but money may be short as the President stakes his claim to another term at the helm President Jacob Zuma gave his third, and best, State of the Nation Address to a joint session of Parliament on 9 February. To show their growing power, the...
Vol 53 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Big projects, money pressures 17th February 2012 Central to President Jacob Zuma’s plans for 2012 is a massive infrastructure development programme. It is to be driven and overseen by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission (PICC),...
Vol 53 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma goes for broke 6th January 2012 Ructions in the ANC and the President’s grim fight to hold on to power will have economic as well as political consequences The election that matters is the one within the governing African National Congress, whose December conference in Mangaung in the Free State will pick its presidential candidate for...
Vol 53 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Economic jitters as Tshwane looks East 6th January 2012 Foreign investors will find the political climate discouraging. Exports, apart from gold, are likely to slow. The fall of the rand against the US dollar will help some...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Zanele Matlala 3rd September 2012 Chief Executive Officer, Merafe Resources Ltd. Despite the fact that China has no chrome reserves of its own, it became the world's top producer of ferrochrome in the first half of 2012. It...