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South African Business 2016 edition

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South African Business is an annual guide to business and investment in South Africa. Published by Global Africa Network Media in Cape Town, the 2016 edition is in its fourth year of publication. The publication provides up-to-date information and analyses of the country's key economic sectors, as well as detailed economic overviews of each of the nine provinces in South Africa.

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SPECIAL FEATURE against water losses (which costs the country R7-billion a year) is being waged through the Department of Water and Sanitation’s plan to train 15 000 artisans and plumbers who will fix leaking taps in their local communities. Internal affairs Cabinet has adopted vigorous and integrated interventions to combat the vicious rhino poaching in the country, including continuous joint operations with key neighbouring countries, improved intelligence gathering as well as enhancing protection in parks and provincial reserves where rhino are present. Government has also made substantial progress in establishing a border management agency to manage all ports of entry and improve security. To further improve access to identity documents, citizens will now be able to apply for the new Smart ID Card at their local bank due to a partnership between the Department of Home Affairs and some banks in the country. In December 2014, Cabinet released the draft National Disability Rights Policy for public comment. “Local government is everybody’s business. We have to make it work. We have launched the ‘Back to Basics’ programme to promote good governance and effective administration through cutting wastage, spending public funds prudently, hiring competent staff, and to ensure transparency and accountability in municipalities,” said Zuma. of the human species and shake up our understanding of the progress of human evolution. Two years after they were tipped off by cavers plumbing the depths of the limestone tunnels in the Rising Star Cave outside Johannesburg, Berger and his team discovered what they say is a new addition to our family tree. The team is calling this new species of human relative “Homo naledi,” and they believe that part of their tribal culture was the practice of burying their History One of South Africa’s premier museums and tourist attractions is The Cradle of Humankind, an ancient destination that celebrates the fact that present-day South Africa has been home to the human species for thousands of years. Early ion 2015 a team of archeologists, led by Professor Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, made a discovery that would pose new and vital questions about the origins SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS 2016 16

SPECIAL FEATURE dead - a behavior scientists previously thought was limited to humans. The team believes that the chamber, located 30 metres underground in the Cradle of Humanity World Heritage Site, was a burial ground–and that Homo naledi could have used fire for light. The discovery was poignant considering South Africa’s energy crisis, but it was also cause for celebration of South Africa’s position in the story of mankind, starting from the birthplace of man to the evolution of one of the greatest stories of democracy ever told. What lies ahead is an exciting period of growth as the country strives to realise its potential to be the gateway to Africa and, in so doing, helping to unlock the enormous economic and social potential within the continent. Sources: Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address 2015, SouthAfricaInfo, BrandSA, Media Club South Africa. 17 SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS 2016

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