Media releases for the Economic Development Department | in 2010
The Minister for Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, in association with the Editor of the Cape Times, Alide Dasnois, and SA New Economics Network Chairman, Joseph Edozien, invites you to attend the first in a series of Policy Platforms entitled The Next Economy National Dialogue.
Twenty percent of South African households have inadequate to severely inadequate access to food. According to the General Household Survey of 2009, this translates into 2 762 400 households. Any dialogue about sustainable economic strategies and the shape of the “next economy” will have to consider how to address this problem.
South Africa is emerging from a month of tremendous excitement which calls for careful reflection. Was this just a passing sporting and economic spectacle or has it opened up opportunities which could give this country an edge as it navigates through the international global crisis?
Important Information that everyone should know:
View press releases and other documents regarding the Walmart | Massmart Merger, from the EDD and Goverment.
More on the Walmart | Massmart Merger hearings can be found on the Competition Tribunal's website.