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...
Vol 53 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma leaves nothing to chance 14th December 2012 President Jacob Zuma has sent 40 hand-picked intelligence operatives to the African National Congress’s 16-20 December conference in Mangaung, we hear. They will be on the look-out for...
Vol 53 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma sweeps the boards 30th November 2012 President Jacob Zuma is tightening his grip on state-owned enterprises and purging boards and executives. His advisors say the SOEs often ignore his government’s objectives, behave too independently...
Vol 53 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma or else 16th November 2012 A ruthless re-election campaign is set to win Jacob Zuma another term as ANC leader and national President The re-election of President Jacob Zuma as African National Congress (ANC) President is an ‘unstoppable tsunami’, say his backers, yet many members of his original coalition of trades...
Vol 53 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA How the branches voted 16th November 2012 Of the 4,500 voting delegates who will decide the African National Congress presidential election at the party conference, 4,103 (91.2%) will come from ANC branches, each of which...