AFRICANGLOBE – Greater economic and financial commitment – and a fundamental restructuring of the rural economy – are needed if South African land reform is to progress. Does a raft of new legislation signal renewed vigour on the part of the ANC?
AFRICANGLOBE – There is a fear on the part of some White people in South Africa that Black people will no longer hold back – that they will wield sjamboks, knives and guns and take what is rightfully owed to them. It will be chaos, they say; the country will burn after the death of Nelson Mandela.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and US aerospace giant Boeing have signed an agreement to collaborate on the research and development of titanium powder for industrial manufacturing processes in the aviation industry.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry has reiterated that minerals beneficiation is important element for the industrialisation of South Africa and the African continent.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – As strikes erupt in industries across South Africa, the country’s ruling elite is moving to solidify the military and legal framework for mass repression against South African workers.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – True entrepreneurs never, never, never quit. Never. Like a bull-dog latched onto a bone. Like a mountain lion with its jaws around the neck of a deer. You’re not prying any of this loose. And the same goes for trying to hold a good entrepreneur down. Not going to happen.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Nigeria and South Africa accounted for 95 per cent of total portfolio investment of $20.15 billion (N3.204 trillion) recorded in the African continent in 2012, according to the African Development Bank, AfDB.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – South African scientists, with government backing, are working on a project to redundant telecommunication dishes spread out over a number of African countries in order to create an African network of radio telescopes.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – The lack of economic diversification throughout Africa makes the recent pledge by South Africa to help Nigeria transform the automotive sector the West African nation’s flagship industry, is welcome news.
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