All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
ECONOMIC Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has identified deindustrialisation as a major threat to the South African economy and says the government is going to come up with a plan to fix it.
Business Report (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The head of the European Commission delegation in Pretoria on Thursday lashed out at comments by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel that Africa had not benefited from its links with rich nations of the West.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
South African Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel says Africa must ensure that its economic relationships with the West are not one-sided.
SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The South African government is to invite business, labour and civil society to have their say on how best to achieve a more competitive exchange rate, says Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel.
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Kim Saulse 11 November 2009 The Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel ,says government would like to engage in an open debate with trade unions and private-sector economists on how to make the Rand more competitive. Patel says Cabinet had agreed that the country needed a more competitive exchange rate and pointed out that the problem was that while a strong rand brought down the cost of...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
That's half a billion! Just so Zuma can cater to all his chums, keeping both his enemies and friends close to him. Basically the tax well is bottomless. Spend and account for it later. Don't shoot the messenger folks, I bring you these tidings so you know how much this Zuma presidency is costing you. Say it again, half a billion. Say it Carl Sagan style. BILLION. Billion . B-I-L-L-I-O-N . Read the...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
If you wanted to have a smart guy in charge of economic policy, you could hardly do better than Ebrahim Patel.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
THE government has denied it has plans to "freeze the rand" as was reported last week, but you can't help feeling this is one of those issues that won't, and perhaps shouldn't, go away. It won't go away partly because the new leftist economic slant of the government means the key protagonists now have an opportunity to make their inputs, such as Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel....
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
By Ofentse Mokae 24 October 2009 Parliament’s Ad hoc committee on the Green Paper on the National Strategic Planning will host public hearings on the matter. The hearings are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at parliament where members of the public will be afforded an opportunity to voice their opinions on the Green Paper. The green paper which was released by minister in the presidency responsible...
Business Report (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
There has been a spiking of investor concern around the news reports on economy minister Ebrahim Patel's plans to freeze the rand.
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Trevor Manuel has his wings clipped. COSATU seems to be getting its way on economic policy, but at what cost? By James Myburgh Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that one of the peculiar difficulties facing a commander in war was the absence of objective knowledge at his disposal. "All action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight," he wrote, "which in addition not...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma has moved to settle the turf war in the ruling alliance over economic policy, evidently acceding to trade union demands for Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel to be given a key role in policy formulation.
Business Report (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Ebrahim Patel, minister of economic development, told labour and management representatives of the clothing industry that government had taken action to assist the industry and now it was time for business and labour to contribute to a new growth strategy for the sector.
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
A lot of what Pierre De Vos had to say in this post, in which he criticised the present status of government, made sense. It's just a pity he had to take a swipe at Helen Zille for no apparent reason. Well, no reason that was relevant to the topic anyway. He came across as afraid of being labeled a racist for his critisism of non-whites. We probably do not want to go back to the imperial Presidency...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The 23 sectoral education and training authorities (Setas) would have to muck in and help each other and the country overcome the recession, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said yesterday.
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