ON MY first visit to Ghana more than 15 years ago, I was enchanted by the carved wooden people found all over Accra’s markets.  There were roomfuls of brightly painted soldiers, white colonials, bureaucrats, waiters, nurses and myriad other icons of human beings produced by west African craftsmen.
 Over the years, these figurines appeared in SA’s [...]

THE Nigerian government is busy with legislation which, if passed, will make it mandatory for companies to pay 3,5% of their gross profit to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The proposed Corporate Social Responsibility Bill allows for a great deal of state meddling in companies’ affairs and suggests onerous punishments for noncompliance, including hefty fines. The [...]

Business Day / Published 20 July 2009
ZIMBABWE is currently swamped by investor conferences. The perception of rich pickings at rock-bottom prices and the search for new capital by the public and private sectors have raised the business profile of a country no one wanted to visit a year ago. And despite the flaws of the [...]

Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 18 and 19 August 2009
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