Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Malusi Knowledge Nkanyezi Gigaba 25th July 2013 Minister of Public Enterprises, South Africa ‘We must not sell our souls in order to receive investments from anywhere in the world,’ Malusi Gigaba told an infrastructure conference in Johannesburg on 16 July. He...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | SOUTH AFRICACHINA Han Fang 2nd July 2013 President, Shanghai Chamber of Commerce in South Africa Chinese entrepreneur Han Fang, new President of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, moved to the country two decades ago and has since established a business...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA Elias Masilela 4th April 2013 Chief Executive, Public Investment Corporation, South Africa Elias Masilela warned Africa of the dangers of allowing Chinese firms to operate unregulated across the continent at Ernst & Young’s Strategic Growth Forum in Cape Town, South...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 5 | SOUTH AFRICAASIA Hostile crowd awaits BRICS summiteers 7th March 2013 Ahead of the fifth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit in Durban on 26-27 March, South African companies are demanding that the African National Congress...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 5 | SOUTH AFRICACHINA Gao Jianke 7th March 2013 CEO, Wesizwe Platinum, South Africa Gao Jianke revealed in late January that Wesizwe Platinum had received a US$650 million loan from the China Development Bank for the expansion of the Bakubung mining project,...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | SOUTH AFRICAASIA South Africa scrambles for Africa 11th February 2013 The African National Congress (ANC) government has ordered South African state-owned companies to mount an aggressive trade offensive into Africa to counter the onslaught of investments by foreign...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril Ramaphosa 15th January 2013 Deputy President, African National Congress, South Africa Former trade unionist Cyril Ramaphosa was elected as the African National Congress’s new Deputy President at the Manguang conference in December 2012. Ahead of the conference, opponents of...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | SOUTH AFRICABRIEFINGBRICS Tshwane sets agenda for BRICS summit 4th December 2012 South Africa will hold the Fifth Summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group on 27 March 2013 at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 | SOUTH AFRICACHINA Calls for protection against Beijing’s exports 30th October 2012 The government wants to improve trade terms with China as new studies show how cheap imports are damaging local industries and costing jobs South Africa’s Trade Minister Rob Davies gave a list of trade concerns to Beijing officials in October during his tour of East Asia. Davies’s government wants to reduce...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Rob Davies 30th October 2012 Trade and Industry Minister, South Africa Rob Davies’s recent tour led to the strengthened economic relations with Indonesia and China. On 17 October in Jakarta, South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry...