Making Key Business Constraints in SADC Tangible: Experiences of the Private Sector
The SADC Secretariat, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ – and SAIIA would like to invite you to participate in the launch of a series of business case studies documenting the TOP 10 business constraints in SADC region in a tangible way.
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a thorny issue for both governments and large scale mining (LSM) companies.
Mining in Africa: Preventing holes in the ground and the pocket
How can Africa extract lasting dividends from the growing global commercial engagement in its mineral and oil resources?
South Africa’s audacity of hope? The geopolitics of consensus and rivalry in the African Union
Arguably, the renewed interest in Africa in the last decade, characterised by the commodity boom and fuelled by the rise of China and India, has brought a fresh set of challenges for the continent at a time of great power flux.
Busan HLF4: Bringing everyone under the same roof
It will take some time to fully unpack what happened in those three high-powered days at the 4th High Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness in Busan.
Towards a Framework of Principles for the G-20: Assessing the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung ‘Guidelines’
A rapidly changing world needs a navigational system if it is not to founder on the rocks of high finance.
Zimbabwe’s Marange Diamonds and the Need for Reform of the Kimberley Process
In November 2011 the Kimberley Process (KP) approved the sale of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange region.
Hong Kong – South Africa’s Gateway to China
South Africa has responded to the rise of East Asia by building new commercial links with the region, especially with China.
When is Foreign Direct Investment Beneficial to a Country and When Is It Not? The Case of South Africa
Although South African policymakers have introduced policies to encourage foreign direct investment (FDI), so far the results have not met expectations, particularly in relation to greenfield investment.
WEF 2012: How SA can come to terms with the inevitable rise of China
That the world is in a process of fundamental geopolitical and geo-economic change is obvious.