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  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Essar takes control of Zisco

India’s Essar Group has at last won control of Zimbabwe’s iron and steel works, after months of infighting in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front threatened to derail the deal.

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Housing scheme crumbles

The multi-billion-dollar housing venture run by South Korea’s STX and a group of Ghanaian investors looks close to collapse, with the partners embroiled in lengthy court actions against each other. The failure of the scheme, which was one of President Joh...

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

It’s energy that counts

India’s resource-heavy trade with Africa may be poised to move into the service sector. Indian companies in banking, hotels, agriculture stand to benefit, but African companies will continue to struggle in their Asian ambitions.

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Plant a seed

Twenty-five years after its foundation in response to devastating Ethiopian famines, the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), a Japanese-funded non-governmental organisation, is looking beyond crop yields to the challenges that small farmers face in process...

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

National interests and hard cash

The United States Senate is again raising the alarm about Washington losing out to Beijing in Africa. On 1 November, the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs, chaired by Senator Christopher Coons (Democrat, Delaware), heard testimony from China-Africa s...

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

The unions turn up the pressure

Chinese companies’ treatment of trades unions in South Africa has come to national attention again, just as the elections in Zambia have highlighted the government’s role in managing investment and regulating working conditions. While the South African go...

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Indian mining houses struggle for contracts

India-linked mining companies have had less luck than their Chinese counterparts in breaking into the West African market, arriving later on the scene than Chinese companies. However, a handful have managed to snap up iron-ore concessions that were missed...

  • Vol 4 No 8
  •  June 2011

Aurora’s gold mine collapses

On 2 June, Congress of South African Trade Unions General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi called on the government to launch an investigation into Aurora Empowerment Systems and the Pamodzi Gold liquidators for what he described as looting, asset-stripping and ...

  • Vol 4 No 8
  •  June 2011

Doors open, doors close

In early June, Guinea’s President Alpha Condé set the tone for more tense negotiations with mining investors when he declared that Chinese-style mines-for-infrastructure deals are unacceptable. The government has also extracted a US$700 million payment fr...

  • Vol 4 No 8
  •  June 2011

Spinning and sowing

Bangladeshi companies will be the next Asian businesses scouring African countries in pursuit of land. With a growing population, rapidly disappearing arable land and rising food prices, the Dhaka government’s new push for food security led to the creatio...

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