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South Africa
Population: 47.6mn.
GNI, $ : 274bn.
Debt: 39.8bn.
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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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  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

In the BRIC of it

President Jacob Zuma's August trip to China completed the final stage of his tour this year of the BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China - economies. The aim is to win investments and triple South Africa's annual gross domestic product growth to 7%. Here...

  • Vol 3 No 10
  •  August 2010

A golden child in Zuma's family

Political networks are helping a scion of the Zuma clan secure lucrative supply and production deals with Asian investors

  • Vol 3 No 7
  •  May 2010

Slow to let go of Hitachi

Faced with popular outcry about profiteering from electricity shortages and opaque ties between political parties and businesses, South Africa’s governing African National Congress is being forced to abandon its stake in Japan’s Hitachi Power Africa. A...

  • Vol 2 No 10
  •  August 2009

South Africa's arms deals with Asia

Anti-arms trade campaigners and opposition MPs are claiming that the African National Congress government covertly sought to sell weapons to repressive regimes in North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya and Zimbabwe without the required scrutiny. On 5 August,...

  • Vol 2 No 10
  •  August 2009

Sizwe Nxasana

Chief Executive Officer, FirstRand Bank, South Africa

  • Vol 2 No 9
  •  July 2009

MTN-Bharti merger

Despite shareholder concerns the deal between Africa's and India's biggest mobile companies is set to go ahead this year

  • Vol 2 No 9
  •  July 2009

MTN, militants and share claims

A tangled web of financial holdings stretching from South Africa to Ghana and Lebanon could delay plans for a US$20 billion merger of India's Bharti Airtel and South Africa's Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN).

  • Vol 2 No 7
  •  May 2009

Friends in the right places

Just before President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on 9 May, India's state-owned National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) signed a commercial cooperation agreement with the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (Cosatu) Kopano Ke Matla investme...

  • Vol 2 No 6
  •  April 2009

Ditching the Dalai Lama

The barring of the Dalai Lama appalls Archbishop Desmond Tutu but gets strong backing from the finance and foreign ministers

  • Vol 2 No 6
  •  April 2009

This wheel's on fire

China may be popular amongst some politicians, but support on the ground can be much thinner. In spite of increased trade and warmer relations, there has been a rise in anti-Chinese sentiment among workers, civil society and businesses in South Africa....

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