South Africa: The New BRIC Kid on the Block
2010 was a major year for South Africa with the successful FIFA World Cup. However significant the event, it pales to the global political positioning South Africa has worked for itself in the past...
View ArticleReplicating Asian Business Models in Africa Requires Stable Forex Rates
Government officials the world over have marveled at the Asian economic success story over the past decade. Developing economies seem to have leapfrogged past many of the predictable obstacles to...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Economy Overview 2011
Real GDP has recovered from -1.7% in 2009 to 2.8% in 2010; this rate of GDP growth remained clearly below potential, estimated around 4% per annum for South Africa. GDP is expected to grow at a rate of...
View ArticleOnlines Sales in South Africa Grow Big
Businesses worldwide were negatively affected by the global economic crisis of the past few years. Online retail sales, however, continued to grow during this turbulent economic time and are still on...
View ArticleSouthern Africa Region Economic Landscape 2011
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is a trade and development bloc, whose aim is economic integration following the independence of Southern Africa states. SADC is made up of fifteen...
View ArticleSuccess in the Consumer Market of Kinshasa, DR Congo
With a population exceeding 12 million people (based on recent census data), Kinshasa, the capitol of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is among the top three cities in Africa. At first...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Mineral Industry Overview
The Republic of South Africa remained one of the world’s leading mining and mineral-processing countries. In 2009, South Africa’s estimated share of world platinum production amounted to 79%; kyanite...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Export Trade Flows to World in 2010
South Africa’s total export trade flows (merchandise) to the world totaled $71,484,309,310 in 2010. The following table provides South Africa’s export trade flows with individual countries around the...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Import Trade Flows from World in 2010
South Africa’s total import trade flows (merchandise) from the world totaled $79,869,793,510 in 2010. The following table provides South Africa’s import trade flows with individual countries. For...
View ArticlePowering Trade with Solar in South Africa
The first phase of a massive rooftop solar energy project is currently underway in Durban. KwaZulu-Natal. The project was launched just ahead of COP17, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
View ArticleSouth Africa Becoming a Renewable Energy Hub
South Africa is fast becoming a preferred renewable energy investment destination for both private and public sector investors – good news for the country’s growing electricity demands, emerging clean...
View ArticleNew Portable Waste Plant Innovation in South Africa Makes Fuel
Scientists from Wits University’s Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (Comps) and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), have developed new technology that can produce liquid...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Largest Desalination Plant Opens
South Africa’s biggest seawater desalination plant has opened in the seaside town of Mossel Bay in the Western Cape province. This facility will ensure that the economic hub achieves greater water...
View ArticleFirst Green Transport Service in South Africa
A group of forward-thinking entrepreneurs have established South Africa’s first carbon-neutral transport service. The Green Cab is the idea of a group of women who decided to pool their expertise to...
View ArticleLED-Lighting Switches on in South Africa
South Africa is set for a boom in the use of LED lighting following the announcement of Africa’s largest energy-saving lighting deal – a joint initiative between local power utility Eskom and global...
View ArticleRussia to Send Trade Delegation to Oil & Gas Africa 2012 Conference and Expo
The Russians are coming! Recent new oil and gas discoveries all over Africa are attracting investors and developers from around the world. Russia is the latest country to show an active interest in the...
View ArticleInnovolt Launches Presence in South Africa; Move Signifies Company’s Global...
ATLANTA, March 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Leader in Electronics Power Protection and Management Extends Technology to Areas in Need Innovolt, a pioneer and leader in intelligent electronics power protection...
View ArticleSouth Africa 2012: Government Leaders and Key Ministries
The following list includes the key government leaders – the head of state, his/her cabinet and key ministries – of South Africa as of April 10, 2012. Pres. Jacob ZUMA Dep. Pres. Kgalema MOTLANTHE...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Energy Sector Small Independent Power Producers Program Comes...
There has been a lot of movement in South Africa’s renewable energy sector due to South Africa’s green policy and government contracts to produce renewable energy. In SA’s Integrated Resource Plan, at...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Economic Cooperation, Regional Integration, & Trade 2012
Given the shift of global power towards developing countries, South Africa’s trade policy would be underpinned by deepening functional integration in the region, on the continent, and with emerging...
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