Real Economy Report

This is the Real Economy Report. Our top stories this week: we provide a progress report on the Soccer City construction; some links in the Gauteng freeway project will be completed for 2010; and, Zimbabwe relies on mining to kick-start its economy.

‘Buy Africa' to profit when commodity cycle turns up again – Asia analysts

"If you believe in the long-term urbanisation success story of China and India, you buy Africa, because that’s where the commodities are going to come from", Frontier Advisory CEO Dr Martyn Davies told mining investors in Johannesburg on...

Local firms cautioned on overpricing

South African suppliers are in danger of pricing themselves out of the market in the Zambian mining industry, warned Paul Runge, Chairman of the Africa Project Programme at the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) last month

SA mine suppliers walk Zambia tightrope

South African suppliers are in danger of pricing themselves out of the market in the Zambian mining industry, a South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) official warned this week.

Africa needs South African juniors

Initiatives are under way to increase the involvement of South African companies in the junior-mining industry elsewhere in Africa.