ESI Africa - 7 September 2020 by Babalwa Bungane

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Bizcommunity - 9 September 2020

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Radio France International (RFI) - 10 September 2020 by Claire Bargelès

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South Africa, a carbon-intensive economy, has initiated a transition to a more sustainable development pathway. While this is centred on the energy sector, the transition is an economy-wide transformation. In a highly unequal society like South Africa, the need for a just transition which would empower vulnerable stakeholders has…

South Africa had a trade surplus of R30 billion in the second quarter of 2020, up from R4 billion in the second quarter of 2019. Generally, South African trade performs better in the second quarter of the year, compared to the first quarter. With the exception of 2012 to 2014, there…

Business Times (Sunday Times) - 13 September 2020 by Hilary Joffe

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Business Day - 14 September 2020 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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This TIPS tracker highlights important trends in the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, and how they affect the economy. It analyses publically available data, research and media reports to identify current developments and reflect on the prognosis for the contagion, the economy, and policy responses. Over the next few months,…

This policy brief aims to lay the ground for a just transition in South Africa’s metals value chain as it pertains to climate change only. It contributes to understanding: a) the nature of the impacts facing the value chain; b) the characteristics of the stakeholders at risks (namely workers, communities…

This TIPS tracker highlights important trends in the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, and how they affect the economy. It analyses publically available data, research and media reports to identify current developments and reflect on the prognosis for the contagion, the economy, and policy responses. Since the pandemic and the…

The second quarter of 2020 saw a strong decline in exports, combined with an even stronger slump in imports as international trade slowed down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several sectors, however, particularly agriculture and parts of mining, were able to increase exports over the quarter. Stringent COVID-19 containment measures…

Professor Faizel Ismail is the Director at the Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town and a TIPS Research Fellow. His book provides a critical analysis of the US-led reform proposals and builds a discourse around an alternative set of principles for the multilateral trading system based on fairness, solidarity, social justice, inclusiveness, and sustainability. Published by South Centre with support from TIPS, download here.

Business Day - 22 September 2020 by Gray Maguire 

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Business Day - 28 September 2020 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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Letter in Business Day - 30 September 2020

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Daily Maverick - 29 September 2020  by Gaylor Montmasson-Clair

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The forestry value chain faces many challenges. These include rising costs for transportation, labour, raw material inputs, energy and imported raw materials, exacerbated by poor road infrastructure that contributes to high maintenance costs and inefficiencies. Increasingly, climate change is an additional stressor that demands transitioning from business-as-usual practices. There is…

This report presents investment projects captured in Q1 and Q2 of 2020. Q1 and Q2 have been combined mainly because of the low number of investment projects announced in Q1 2020, combined with general delays in the release of certain data, such as those which inform the investment environment analysis.…

  Presentations and reports Muhammed Patel - TIPS Presentation: National Employment Vulnerability National Employment VulnerabilityAssessment (NEVA) and Sector Jobs Resilient Plans (SJRP): Coal value chain Report: Sector Jobs Resilience Plan: Coal value chain Pulane Mafoea Nkalai - Sam Tambani Research Institute Presentation: Energy Mix choices and the protection of workers’…