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CHINESE INVESTMENT IN AFRICAN TEXTILE FINISHING IS UNEVEN AND WILL BUILD ON CLOTHING INITIATIVES
Chinese investment in sub-Saharan Africa’s textile processing sector is creating new capacity for finishing, but progress is uneven. Whilst China’s growing presence in the region is far from universally popular, industry figures consulted by International Dyer across the continent were generally positive about the trend.…
NEW BOTSWANA PRIVATE UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
An alumni association has been launched at Botswana’s newest private university, with the aim of linking its staff and students to the country’s well-do-to resource-based economy. The Botho University Alumni Association was launched last Thursday (Feb 27) by Botswana’s former President Festus Mogae at its campus in the capital Gaborone.…
BOTSWANA’S FIRST PRIVATE UNIVERSITY EYES INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXPANSION
Botswana’s first private university, the Malaysian-owned Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (Limkokwing Botswana), has continued to flex its muscles in this diamond-rich Southern Africa nation, taking advantage of a fast growing tertiary education sector. Botswana’s college and university student (aged 18-24) enrollment has grown from 11.4% in 2007/08 to 16.4% in 2012, or 46,613 students.…
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN PERSONAL CARE MARKET GROWS AS WEALTH SPREADS
SUB-SAHARAN African makers of cosmetics and personal care products are profiting from a growing and increasingly stable regional market, where economic growth is increasing demand for personal luxuries.
A report, ‘Business in Africa – Corporate Insights’ by Dianna Games, Standard Bank South Africa estimates that more than half of Africa’s population would be living in urban areas by 2030 and 60% by 2050, when the population would be about 2.4 billion, compared to 1 billion now.…
EU TO MOVE GOALPOSTS ON TAX EVASION, WHILE OECD EXPANDS GLOBAL TAX INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM
THE EUROPEAN Commission is attempting to move the legal boundary where tax avoidance becomes tax evasion, criminalising some aggressive tax planning that has caused controversy across Europe. The move is one a number of recent practical tax and anti-fraud law reforms that Brussels has been pushing to help tax authorities in the European Union (EU) collect reasonable levels of revenue.…
BOTSWANA: AFRICA’S POSTER-CHILD FOR FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE
The southern African nation of Botswana has a glittering reputation for its gem diamonds, of which it is largest producer in the world. But on a continent where widespread corruption and poor governance have until recently inhibited foreign investment, Botswana – with a population of only two million people in a landlocked area larger than France – has acquired a reputation as a poster child for financial probity.…
DESPITE AGOA, AFRICAN APPAREL AND TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS LOSING OUT TO FOREIGN COMPANIES
BARACK Obama seems ready to accept an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for another 15 years before it expires in 2015, but sub-Saharan African textile manufacturers might have mixed feelings.
African ambassadors in Washington DC have been under strict instructions from their governments to lobby the United States Congress to renew the law, forming an ambassadors’ AGOA working group led by Ethiopian ambassador Girma Birru.…
EX-CANADIAN PM PAUL MARTIN SAYS FINANCIAL REPORTING IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS – ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
AT a time when the world seems increasingly led by lifelong politicians, it is perhaps refreshing to hear from a political leader who has a solid background in business, and such is former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Speaking to Accountancy Futures, he showed how more than half-a-century of business and public life can be brought to bear in financial and commercial mentorship.…
LEAD PAINTS STILL WIDESPREAD IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
IF there is one paint ingredient that marketers agree should be left off the label, it has to be lead. General and scientific opinion agrees this metal causes health problems and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), working with the UN Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) has embarked on plans to eliminate architectural and household lead paints in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2020.…
SOUTH AFRICA PAINTS INDUSTRY RECOVERS FROM PAINFUL RECESSION
SOUTH Africa’s paint and coatings industry is expected to increase in value from 560.0 million in 2009 to USD712.47 million in 2016, according to market analysts Frost & Sullivan. But the sector has faced tough times since the global financial crisis hit in 2008, and is only now recovering from the recession that hit South Africa as a result, and that recovery has been slow.…