The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) reckon Africa's losses from IFFs amount to around US$100 billion a year a calculation which has stayed constant since a landmark report by South Africa's ex-President Thabo Mbeki in 2015...
Vol 65 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
‘The ANC having shorn itself of left and right-wing populists is a social democratic party in all but name ' said Alan Hirsch a former economic policy head during Thabo Mbeki's presidency...
Vol 65 No 13 |
- AFRICA
- FINANCE
African officials and civil society groups are enthused by the progress made particularly on IFFs – much of the impetus for the UN convention came from a Thabo Mbeki-chaired inquiry which estimated that African states lose US$50 billion per year to these...
Vol 65 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
And the ensuing ANC-led government under President Thabo Mbeki which was elected in 1999 saw the country's highest level of economic growth for decades...
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Vol 65 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
That process started two decades ago when President Thabo Mbeki's government allowed companies such as Anglo South African Breweries Old Mutual and Liberty Life to move their primary listings (and their main tax obligations) to London...
Vol 65 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Former presidents Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki former Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale and former deputy president David Mabuza were persuaded to campaign for the ANC...
Vol 65 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Such is the disillusion with national politics that party veterans such as former President Thabo Mbeki are calling for an inclusive national dialogue to chart a new political path after the elections...
Vol 65 No 6 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
His supporters remind journalists what happened the last time a President sacked his deputy: that was Thabo Mbeki who sacked Jacob Zuma in 2005...
The Africa group's main priority is that the new authority address illicit financial flows as was demanded by AU's High-Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows (HLP-IFFs) back in 2014 which was chaired by former South African President Thabo Mbeki which first called for a UN tax body...
Current ANC leaders in the province have been working with Thabo Mbeki who struck an alliance in KZN with the IFP then led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi to charm the IFP into a future alliance...
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