Brick By Brick, BRICS Building A New Bridge For A New World
May 30th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on how the BRICS are now a new bridge to a New World: Measuring BRICS in single decades, in 2001, BRIC started as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China; Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill claimed that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global […]
Read more »South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Descent Into Energy Darkness?
May 24th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, strong insight into Southern Africa’s energy poverty: To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River – teeter on the verge of energy poverty. Electricity generation is meant to be a feat of simple engineering, though requiring substantial investment. Moreover, for countries that have eternally […]
Read more »Inside Naspers: Africa’s Most Valuable Company
January 31st, 2023
Via Tech Safari, a look at Naspers, Africa’s most valuable company: This African company has a $90 billion dollar market cap. It’s not a mining company, or a bank. It’s Naspers – an internet and technology company from South Africa. But when Naspers started in 1915, it was a traditional media company. Today, Naspers’ wealth […]
Read more »Network Defects: South Africa’s Disintegrating Freight Railway Is Crippling Firms
January 29th, 2023
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how African state-owned firms can actually make Africa poorer: The roads in the north of Kwa-Zulu Natal (kzn), South Africa’s second-most-populated province, were once sedate. Lorries carrying timber or sugar cane from nearby plantations would trundle past, overtaken occasionally by tourists heading to game reserves. But these days hundreds […]
Read more »Lavrov’s Africa Trip Reveals Limits to Russian Soft Economic Power
January 27th, 2023
Via The Moscow Times, commentary on Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent visit to South Africa, Eswatini, and Angola: The focus of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to South Africa, Eswatini, and Angola this week has been the portrayal of Russia as a partner for the continent’s development and security, especially in the energy sector. The tour also had an overtly […]
Read more »South Africa and Saudi Arabia Strike $15bn Worth of Agreements
October 19th, 2022
Via The Africa Report, an article on news that South Africa and Saudi Arabia have struck $15bn worth of agreements: Saudi Arabia and South Africa have signed deals worth about $15bn during a state visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Details about the agreements between the two countries, which included Memorandums of Understanding, have remained under wraps. […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.