State of Nation: 'implementation key'
President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation address should focus on the implementation of policies already agreed to, while underpinning a joint public-private effort to lift the country onto a job-rich growth path, says Business Unity South Africa.
Norilsk eyes South African platinum
Platinum's investment potential could exceed that of gold, Russia's Norilsk Nickel told the 2012 African Mining Indaba in Cape Town. According to reports, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium is looking at platinum mine acquisitions in South Africa.
South African economy adds jobs
South Africa's unemployment rate fell from 25% to 23.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011. Jobs in the country's formal sector registered the highest year-on-year growth since the end of the recession in 2009, although the informal sector continued to shed jobs.
SA investment in Africa on the increase
South African direct investment in Africa has increased at four times the rate of the country's overall foreign direct investment since 1994, according to the latest South Africa Survey published by the SA Institute of Race Relations.
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