The governments of Mozambique and South Africa signed a R3 billion, 30-year concession in 1996 for a private consortium, Trans-African Concessions (TRAC), to build and operate the N4 toll road from Witbank, South Africa to Maputo, Mozambique.
Public-private partnerships have been hailed as a new way to conduct state business and harness the funding and expertise of the private sector.
Exactly how should business relate to government? For much of the last half century the relationship has been rocky in Africa.
Tanganda, the largest tea producer in Zimbabwe and one of the country’s most important exporters, had a pretty good crop last year. Despite low rains, it put Z$ 18 billion in profits on the books.
How do we constrain executive power while not diluting its ability to fulfil its constitutional obligations or political mandate? Can we design better systems in Africa?
Following the visit of the President of the Republic of Korea, Mr Roh Moo-hyun, to Africa in March 2006, the Korea Africa Forum meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in November 2006 and the visit of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to Korea in May 2007, the South African department of foreign affairs and the embassy of the Republic of Korea in Pretoria requested SAIIA to host an intersessional meeting at Jan Smuts House, Johannesburg, on 15 November 2007.
The speech made by Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian at the National Day celebrations on 10 October focused on easing cross-strait tensions and encouraged the resumption of dialogue between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum held in Chile last month was significant for a number of reasons.
A CONFERENCE on economic development and social equity, held recently in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unofficially marked the two-year anniversary of the India, Brazil and SA (Ibsa) forum.
CHILE’s phenomenal success and its reputation of being the anchor of economic stability in Latin America makes it the best place to launch a business in Latin America.
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