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South Africa
Population:	47.6mn.
GNI, $ :	274bn.
Debt:	39.8bn.
Overview:	As the continent’s most developed economy, South Africa is best placed to turn its ties with Beijing and Delhi into political capital, but trade and investment continues to be based on natural resource extraction.

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Found 28 articles.

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

Gwede Mantashe

African National Congress Secretary General, South Africa

Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

Dalai Lama dumped again

Beijing appears to call the shots in relations with South Africa. While the Dalai Lama awaited a visa to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday party on 7th October, South African Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe and Chinese Vice-President Xi...

Vol 4 No 11
September 2011

Patrice Motsepe

Chairman, ARMgold, South Africa

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Raids and rivalries

A raid on telecoms company ZTE has called attention to illegal immigration and the rough competition between Chinese companies in South Africa. The Department of Home Affairs, the South African Police Service and the Hawks, an anti-corruption unit,...

Vol 4 No 9
July 2011

Trucking trials

The trial of Jack Hsieh (Hsieh Ping-sung) and his four truckers, accused of defrauding powerful Zimbabwean interests, rumbles on. Hsieh, who is from Taiwan and has South African nationality, was charged some months ago with fraud over the purchase and del...

Vol 4 No 9
July 2011

Nkosinathi Mthethwa

Police Minister

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 7
May 2011

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa

Vol 3 No 11
September 2010

Relations have never been better

If only half of the recent deals signed by China and South Africa come to fruition, they promise to revolutionise Africa's biggest economy

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