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May Coverage Report
SEIFSA News
01 May 2015, p.11
Mechanical Technology
01 May 2015, p.7
Mining Review Africa
01 May 2015, p.14
Mining Review Africa,
01 May 2015, p.15
Sunday Times
03 May 2015, p.4
Timeslive.co.za
03 May 2015
http://www.timeslive.co.za/businesstimes/2015/05/03/tribunal-finally-set-to-nail-wire-price-fixing-
case
Six years after a case involving a price-fixing cartel in the wire manufacturing sector was first submitted
to the Competition Tribunal, the hearing is finally set to go ahead.
This follows the Competition Appeal Court's decision in March to deny a request by some of the
companies involved to delay the hearing again. The case is now set down for July 1.
Nathan Friedman, the chairman of Cape Gate, a respondent in the case, said he was relieved the
matter would finally be heard. "We just want to put this to bed now. It's been going on for years. We
have agreed to cooperate with the [Competition] commission. The sooner it's dealt with, the better."
Wire and wire products manufacturers, many of them well-known industry players, stand accused of
fixing prices of wire products, colluding on tenders and dividing markets by allocating customers
among themselves between 2001 and 2008.
Companies affected included Harmony Gold and farmers' co-operatives.
Some of the respondents formed a group of companies called the Allens Meshco Group (AMG), which
allegedly entered into agreements among themselves to fix the prices of nails and other products.
Businessman Rick Allens, who owns or has significant shareholdings in companies in the AMG group,
denied in a written reply to Business Times that he or AMG were part of a cartel that included Cape
Gate and Consolidated Wire Industries (CWI) between 2001 and 2008. Gape Gate and CWI were major
players in the industry.
"In fact, AMG competed with CWI and Cape Gate and grew its market share over this period," Allens
said.
The companies in the AMG group are Allens Meshco, Hendok, Wireforce, Agri Wires, Agri Wires North,
Agri Wires Upington, Cape Wire, Forest Wire, Independent Galvanising and Associated Wire
Industries.
However, statements submitted by CWI and Cape Gate place Allens at an initial meeting in August
2001, where the alleged cartel discussed how to stop the price wars that were crippling the sector.
CWI chief executive Johannes Botha said: "During the period 2001 to 2008, CWI, Cape Gate and AMG
had an arrangement or understanding directly or indirectly to fix the price of wire and various wire
products. This included agreeing on a national price list for wire and wire products . (And) agreeing on
the level of discounts."
Allens said CWI and Cape Gate had instigated and overseen the market division and collusion to help
local steel producers to control the market.
Allens said this was why AMG had asked the Pretoria High Court in May 2010 to overturn a decision
by the commission to grant leniency to CWI.
"CWI is jointly controlled by the major upstream players ArcelorMittal South Africa (formerly Iscor)
and Scaw Metals," Allens said. "These upstream players have a history of abusive and dominant
behaviour and have controlled the national steel industry for decades.
"CWI has been used to implement their manipulative and abusive strategies. It would appear that the
industry bully is being given a free pass by the commission, he said."
Freddie de Kok, a director of Hendok, an AMG company, will testify at the tribunal how his firm was
allegedly "squeezed by upstream steel mills and their vertically integrated downstream operations,
eventually losing significant share to these companies, particularly Cape Gate".
Ironically, a first complaint lodged with the commission with regards to collusion in the wire sector in
2003 makes allegations that AMG co-operated with Iscor.
Barnes Fencing Industries, F&G Quality Tubes and Dunrose, all consumers of a steel wire product
called "low carbon wire rod", accused Allens Mescho, Wireforce Steelbar, Hendok, Independent
Galvanising and Associated Wire Industries of conspiring with Iscor to allocate geographic areas for
the distribution of nails and galvanised wire.
A second complaint, lodged by CWI in 2008, also named AMG as one of the companies involved in
cartel behaviour.
The commission has requested that the tribunal fine the respondents a maximum 10% of their yearly
turnover if found to have contravened the Competition Act.
Allens said accusations that he had been delaying the hearing with legal action were unfair. He said
any delays were the fault of the commission, which failed to act timeously to file its opposing papers.
He said he had been prepared to go ahead with the hearing, first scheduled for last month.
The Competition Appeal Court criticised AMG and the tribunal for allowing the case to drag on for so
many years.
"More than five-and-a-half years after the referral, the hearing on the matter has not begun in the
tribunal.
"Cartel cases are difficult enough without adding failing memory to the challenges," the appeal court
said.
Infrastructurene.ws
13 May 2015
http://www.infrastructurene.ws/2015/05/13/green-certification-for-metal/
In March 2015, as a result of its on-going dedication to sustainable business practices, the Scaw Metals
Group, finally got their steel certified as green by Ecospecifier Global GreenTag South Africa.
For Scaw, this certification is an affirmation of the company’s determined efforts to be recognised as
a green building partner; manufacturing products that protect nature and its people. “As an
organisation, we are dedicated to making sustainable decisions,” asserted Markus Hannemann, CEO.
GreenTag SA Certification is a world first, third party, green building product rating system which was
launched in Australia in 2010 by Ecospecifier. Underpinned by rigorous scientific and life cycle
assessment, health, ecotoxicity, greenhouse gas emission and biodiversity assessment processes, the
rating system also boasts advanced, robust ‘beyond LCA’ certification methodology which is
independently verified as an ISO 14024 compliant Type 1 Eco label.
The Ecospecifier global Verified Product Program ensures that products have been rigorously assessed
by a third party, in accordance with the Verified Product Program standard. All product eco claims
meet ISO 14021 and ACCC environment Claims Guidelines.
Operating under license as Global GreenTag in South Africa, they has been acknowledged by the Green
Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) as a valuable assessment tool.
Thus far, the metal manufacturer has received certification for its cast products, grinding media, rolled
products and wire rod products. These products are primary steel products hence the need for their
certification.
Further proof of the metal giant’s ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability rests in its
sponsorship of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa’s SEIFSA)
Environment Stewardship Award category at the upcoming SEIFSA Awards for Excellence.
“We are very mindful of the impact of global warming and the pressing need to conserve finite
resources. It is against this backdrop that we have decided to rally behind SEIFSA and sponsor the
Environment Stewardship Award category,” asserted Fikile Khumalo, executive chairman.
One of seven categories at this year’s awards, the Environmental Stewardship Award is focussed on
showcasing companies that have implemented effective cost saving and greening initiatives.
Trailblazing companies having implemented sustainable projects which incorporate both staff and
supplier training will be considered for this accolade.
Taking place in Ekurhuleni on 28 May 2015, the inaugural awards ceremony will pay tribute to
excellence in the manufacturing, metals and engineering sectors.
Iol.co.za/business
25 May 2015
http://www.iol.co.za/business/news/africa-brings-huge-benefits-for-sa-patel-1.1863016#.VWRp38-
qqko
Xenophobia must be countered by spreading the message to ordinary South Africans about the huge
benefits which the rest of Africa brought to this country, Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim
Patel said on Monday.
He was speaking at an Africa Day symposium held at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Monday,
one of many Africa Day events held across South Africa, largely inspired by the recent explosion of
xenophobic violence, as UJ’s Farid Essack said.
Patel said it had struck him when visiting factories and townships after the violence, that many
workers, young people and the unemployed felt real fears about competition from immigrants for
jobs, business opportunities and access to services such as housing.
Many public commentators had stressed the spirit of ubuntu and the positive role played by South
Africa in Africa to rebut those fears. “But it’s tougher to make that argument in townships than
symposia. To the poor and desperate these arguments may not resonate when bread must be put on
the table.”
He said that academics, business people, trade unions, politicians, media and others had to make a
greater effort “to make the argument of how South Africa benefits from Africa,” Patel said and…”why
narrow xenophobia restricts those benefits.”
He said 244 000 direct jobs in South Africa were sustained by exports to the rest of the Africa. And if
one added the indirect effect through those direct workers paying taxes and buying goods the total
number of direct and indirect jobs rose to 885 000.
The largest export market for South African plastic products was Zimbabwe, for TVs it was Zambia and
for clothing it was Mozambique, he said, focusing on countries where many immigrants had come
from.
Conversely, South Africans should be made more aware that half of the water which Gauteng
consumed comes from Lesotho and much of Sasol’s gas from Mozambique.
Greater regional integration and development, including coordination of industrial strategies and skills
development, were important so that those who wanted a better life were not always obliged to cross
borders to reach it. And better governance was necessary across Africa so wealth was shared.
Bobby Godsell, chairperson of Business Leadership South Africa, said the rest of Africa was providing
this country with a potential market of one billion people where the local market of 50 million was
already saturated in some industries such as automobiles and telecommunications.
Local companies were also raising large capital elsewhere on the continent as his former company
Anglo Gold did in Ghana when it merged with Ghana’s Ashanti Gold.
That merger had also provided an injection of new Ghanaian skills to Anglo Gold and new technology
to the South African company. AngloGold knew about digging very deep holes but Ghana brought in
the experience of open-cast mining which was not familiar to South Africa.
Iqbal Surve, chairman of Independent Newspapers, said the future of South African business was in
Africa. Growing digitalisation was narrowing and equalising business opportunities, giving smaller
companies the chance to compete with big capital.
He said many of the 174 companies he was invested in, derived income from Africa but South Africans
should stop looking at Africa only for what they could get out of it but also how they could share value
with it.
Surve offered to partner with the University of the Johannesburg in conveying the message of South
Africa’s indebtedness to Africa through Independent Newspapers, and through his new African
Independent, which he called the first Africa-wide newspaper and through the new continent-wide
African News Agency (ANA).
Ufikile Khumalo, executive chairperson of Scaw Metals, said his company had seven manufacturing
sites in four other African countries, so it was fully integrated in Africa and really felt the impact of the
xenophobic violence.
The lesson he had learnt from it was that his company had to fly the flag of Brand South Africa in the
future and not just its corporate flag.
All its employees who interfaced with other Africans would become ambassadors he said.
Zithulele Combi, chairperson of Pioneer Foods, the second largest food producer in SA and which had
14,000 employees in South Africa said companies like his had benefited enormously over the last five
years from the influx of other Africans into the country, baking 1,8 million loaves of bread a day where
before it had baked one million.
The company also employed 8,000 people at its egg plant in Zambia and 5,000 at its egg plant in Kenya.
Issa Aremu, of the Nigerian Labour Congress, said what was missing in South Africa and elsewhere on
the continent was Africa consciousness which had to be promoted by the African Union Commission
especially, to counter the “primitive tribalism” which lay at the root of xenophobia.
Article also carried by ANN7 News and The New Age
Ann7.com
25 May 2015
http://www.ann7.com/article/33107-25052015africa-brings-huge-benefits-for-south-africa-
%E2%80%93-patel.html#.VW19P0ZqJ1Q
Xenophobia must be countered by spreading the message to ordinary South Africans about the huge
benefits which the rest of Africa brought to this country, Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim
Patel said on Monday.
He was speaking at an Africa Day symposium held at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Monday,
one of many Africa Day events held across South Africa, largely inspired by the recent explosion of
xenophobic violence, as UJ’s Farid Essack said.
Patel said it had struck him when visiting factories and townships after the violence, that many
workers, young people and the unemployed felt real fears about competition from immigrants for
jobs, business opportunities and access to services such as housing.
Many public commentators had stressed the spirit of ubuntu and the positive role played by South
Africa in Africa to rebut those fears. “But it’s tougher to make that argument in townships than
symposia.
To the poor and desperate these arguments may not resonate when bread must be put on the
table.”He said that academics, business people, trade unions, politicians, media and others had to
make a greater effort “to make the argument of how South Africa benefits from Africa,” Patel said
and…” why narrow xenophobia restricts those benefits.”
He said 244 000 direct jobs in South Africa were sustained by exports to the rest of the Africa. And if
one added the indirect effect through those direct workers paying taxes and buying goods the total
number of direct and indirect jobs rose to 885 000.
The largest export market for South African plastic products was Zimbabwe, for TVs it was Zambia and
for clothing it was Mozambique, he said, focusing on countries where many immigrants had come
from.
Conversely, South Africans should be made more aware that half of the water which Gauteng
consumed cames from Lesotho and much of Sasol’s gas from Mozambique.
Greater regional integration and development, including coordination of industrial strategies and skills
development, were important so that those who wanted a better life were not always obliged to cross
borders to reach it.
And better governance was necessary across Africa so wealth was shared.Bobby Godsell, chairperson
of Business Leadership South Africa, said the rest of Africa was providing this country with a potential
market of one billion people where the local market of 50 million was already saturated in some
industries such as automobiles and telecommunications.
Local companies were also raising large capital elsewhere on the continent as his former company
Anglo Gold did in Ghana when it merged with Ghana’s Ashanti Gold.
That merger had also provided an injection of new Ghanaian skills to AngoGold and new technology
to the South African company.
AngloGold knew about digging very deep holes but Ghana brought in the experience of open-cast
mining which was not familiar to South Africa.
Iqbal Surve, chairman of Independent Newspapers, said the future of South African business was in
Africa. Growing digitilisation was narrowing and equalising business opportunities, giving smaller
companies the chance to compete with big capital.
He said many of the 174 companies he was invested in, derived income from Africa but South Africans
should stop looking at Africa only for what they could get out of it but also how they could share value
with it.
Surve offered to partner with the University of the Johannesburg in conveying the message of South
Africa’s indebtedness to Africa through Independent Newspapers, and through his new African
Independent, which he called the first Africa-wide newspaper and through the new continent-wide
African News Agency (ANA).
Ufikile Khumalo, executive chairperson of Scaw Metals, said his company had seven manufacturing
sites in four other African countries, so it was fully integrated in Africa and really felt the impact of the
xenophobic violence.
The lesson he had learnt from it was that his company had to fly the flag of Brand South Africa in the
future and not just its corporate flag.
All its employees who interfaced with other Africans would become ambassadors he said.Zithulele
Combi, chairperson of Pioneer Foods, the second largest food producer in SA and which had 14,000
employees in South Africa said companies like his had benefited enormously over the last five years
from the influx of other Africans into the country, baking 1,8 million loaves of bread a day where
before it had baked one million.
The company also employed 8,000 people at its egg plant in Zambia and 5,000 at its egg plant in
Kenya.Issa Aremu, of the Nigerian Labour Congress, said what was missing in South Africa and
elsewhere on the continent was Africa consciousness which had to be promoted by the African Union
Commission especially, to counter the “primitive tribalism” which lay at the root of xenophobia.ANA
Ofm.co.za
26 May 2015
http://www.ofm.co.za/article/Africa-News/165968/Africa-brings-huge-benefits-for-SA--Economic-
Development-minister
Xenophobia must be countered by spreading the message to ordinary South Africans about the huge
benefits which the rest of Africa brought to this country, Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim
Patel said on Monday.
He was speaking at an Africa Day symposium held at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Monday,
one of many Africa Day events held across South Africa, largely inspired by the recent explosion of
xenophobic violence, as UJ’s Farid Essack said.
Patel said it had struck him when visiting factories and townships after the violence, that many
workers, young people and the unemployed felt real fears about competition from immigrants for
jobs, business opportunities and access to services such as housing.
Many public commentators had stressed the spirit of ubuntu and the positive role played by South
Africa in Africa to rebut those fears. “But it’s tougher to make that argument in townships than
symposia. To the poor and desperate these arguments may not resonate when bread must be put on
the table.”
He said that academics, business people, trade unions, politicians, media and others had to make a
greater effort “to make the argument of how South Africa benefits from Africa,” Patel said and…”why
narrow xenophobia restricts those benefits.”
He said 244 000 direct jobs in South Africa were sustained by exports to the rest of the Africa. And if
one added the indirect effect through those direct workers paying taxes and buying goods the total
number of direct and indirect jobs rose to 885 000.
The largest export market for South African plastic products was Zimbabwe, for TVs it was Zambia and
for clothing it was Mozambique, he said, focusing on countries where many immigrants had come
from.
Conversely, South Africans should be made more aware that half of the water which Gauteng
consumed comes from Lesotho and much of Sasol’s gas from Mozambique.
Greater regional integration and development, including coordination of industrial strategies and skills
development, were important so that those who wanted a better life were not always obliged to cross
borders to reach it. And better governance was necessary across Africa so wealth was shared.
Bobby Godsell, chairperson of Business Leadership South Africa, said the rest of Africa was providing
this country with a potential market of one billion people where the local market of 50 million was
already saturated in some industries such as automobiles and telecommunications.
Local companies were also raising large capital elsewhere on the continent as his former company
Anglo Gold did in Ghana when it merged with Ghana’s Ashanti Gold.
That merger had also provided an injection of new Ghanaian skills to AngloGold and new technology
to the South African company. AngloGold knew about digging very deep holes but Ghana brought in
the experience of open-cast mining which was not familiar to South Africa.
Iqbal Surve, chairman of Independent Newspapers, said the future of South African business was in
Africa. Growing digitilisation was narrowing and equalising business opportunities, giving smaller
companies the chance to compete with big capital.
He said many of the 174 companies he was invested in, derived income from Africa but South Africans
should stop looking at Africa only for what they could get out of it but also how they could share value
with it.
Surve offered to partner with the University of the Johannesburg in conveying the message of South
Africa’s indebtedness to Africa through Independent Newspapers, and through his new African
Independent, which he called the first Africa-wide newspaper and through the new continent-wide
African News Agency (ANA).
Ufikile Khumalo, executive chairperson of Scaw Metals, said his company had seven manufacturing
sites in four other African countries, so it was fully integrated in Africa and really felt the impact of the
xenophobic violence.
The lesson he had learnt from it was that his company had to fly the flag of Brand South Africa in the
future and not just its corporate flag.
All its employees who interfaced with other Africans would become ambassadors he said.
Zithulele Combi, chairperson of Pioneer Foods, the second largest food producer in SA and which had
14,000 employees in South Africa said companies like his had benefited enormously over the last five
years from the influx of other Africans into the country, baking 1,8 million loaves of bread a day where
before it had baked one million.
The company also employed 8,000 people at its egg plant in Zambia and 5,000 at its egg plant in Kenya.
Issa Aremu, of the Nigerian Labour Congress, said what was missing in South Africa and elsewhere on
the continent was Africa consciousness which had to be promoted by the African Union Commission
especially, to counter the “primitive tribalism” which lay at the root of xenophobia.
Citizen.co.za
26 May 2015
http://citizen.co.za/390181/africa-brings-huge-benefits-for-sa-ebrahim-patel/
Xenophobia must be countered by spreading the message to ordinary South Africans about the huge
benefits which the rest of Africa brought to this country, Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim
Patel said on Monday.
He was speaking at an Africa Day symposium held at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Monday,
one of many Africa Day events held across South Africa, largely inspired by the recent explosion of
xenophobic violence, as UJ’s Farid Essack said.
Patel said it had struck him when visiting factories and townships after the violence, that many
workers, young people and the unemployed felt real fears about competition from immigrants for
jobs, business opportunities and access to services such as housing.
Many public commentators had stressed the spirit of ubuntu and the positive role played by South
Africa in Africa to rebut those fears. “But it’s tougher to make that argument in townships than
symposia. To the poor and desperate these arguments may not resonate when bread must be put on
the table.”
He said that academics, business people, trade unions, politicians, media and others had to make a
greater effort “to make the argument of how South Africa benefits from Africa,” Patel said and…”why
narrow xenophobia restricts those benefits.”
He said 244 000 direct jobs in South Africa were sustained by exports to the rest of the Africa. And if
one added the indirect effect through those direct workers paying taxes and buying goods the total
number of direct and indirect jobs rose to 885 000.
The largest export market for South African plastic products was Zimbabwe, for TVs it was Zambia and
for clothing it was Mozambique, he said, focusing on countries where many immigrants had come
from.
Conversely, South Africans should be made more aware that half of the water which Gauteng
consumed cames from Lesotho and much of Sasol’s gas from Mozambique.
Greater regional integration and development, including coordination of industrial strategies and skills
development, were important so that those who wanted a better life were not always obliged to cross
borders to reach it. And better governance was necessary across Africa so wealth was shared.
Bobby Godsell, chairperson of Business Leadership South Africa, said the rest of Africa was providing
this country with a potential market of one billion people where the local market of 50 million was
already saturated in some industries such as automobiles and telecommunications.
Local companies were also raising large capital elsewhere on the continent as his former company
Anglo Gold did in Ghana when it merged with Ghana’s Ashanti Gold.
That merger had also provided an injection of new Ghanaian skills to AngloGold and new technology
to the South African company. AngloGold knew about digging very deep holes but Ghana brought in
the experience of open-cast mining which was not familiar to South Africa.
Iqbal Surve, chairman of Independent Newspapers, said the future of South African business was in
Africa. Growing digitilisation was narrowing and equalising business opportunities, giving smaller
companies the chance to compete with big capital.
He said many of the 174 companies he was invested in, derived income from Africa but South Africans
should stop looking at Africa only for what they could get out of it but also how they could share value
with it.
Surve offered to partner with the University of the Johannesburg in conveying the message of South
Africa’s indebtedness to Africa through Independent Newspapers, and through his new African
Independent, which he called the first Africa-wide newspaper and through the new continent-wide
African News Agency (ANA).
Ufikile Khumalo, executive chairperson of Scaw Metals, said his company had seven manufacturing
sites in four other African countries, so it was fully integrated in Africa and really felt the impact of the
xenophobic violence.
The lesson he had learnt from it was that his company had to fly the flag of Brand South Africa in the
future and not just its corporate flag.
All its employees who interfaced with other Africans would become ambassadors he said.
Zithulele Combi, chairperson of Pioneer Foods, the second largest food producer in SA and which had
14,000 employees in South Africa said companies like his had benefited enormously over the last five
years from the influx of other Africans into the country, baking 1,8 million loaves of bread a day where
before it had baked one million.
The company also employed 8,000 people at its egg plant in Zambia and 5,000 at its egg plant in Kenya.
Issa Aremu, of the Nigerian Labour Congress, said what was missing in South Africa and elsewhere on
the continent was Africa consciousness which had to be promoted by the African Union Commission
especially, to counter the “primitive tribalism” which lay at the root of xenophobia.
Uj.ac.za
26 May 2015
http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Newsroom/News/Pages/Africa-Day-Benefits-of-economic-integration-in-
Africa-are-real.aspx
“The core message of the symposium is to create dialogue with our communities; this dialogue should
be communicated to taxi ranks, schools, and shebeens so that people can engage in the conversations
against xenophobia.” These were the words of Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel,
speaking against the scourge of the recent xenophobic attacks that took place in South Africa.
2015/05/26 02:00 PM
Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, speaking at UJ, says that ordinary South Africans
should engage in conversations that expel xenophobia among Africans.
In celebration of Africa Day, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) hosted an Africa Day symposium with
the national Department of Economic Development on Monday, 25 May 2015. The symposium was
largely to counteract the effects of the recent xenophobic attacks that shook economic and political
relations between South Africa and its African counterparts.
Prof Ihron Rensburg, Vice-Chancellor and principal: UJ, said that deepening inequalities, wars over
state resources, corruption, the slow response to disasters contributed to the frustration of citizens.
Minister Patel said that 244 000 direct jobs in South Africa were sustained by exports to the rest of
the Africa. Patel further said that if one added the indirect effect through those direct workers paying
taxes and buying goods the total number of direct and indirect jobs rose to 885 000.
The conversations, comprised by different industry role players in business, media and unions as well
as academics, largely offered a glimpse of the big economic role South Africa is playing in the African
continent. The Minister placed emphasis on the relations South Africans have with African countries,
particularly economic prosperity, saying Ubuntu must remain the drive for a Africa that is growing in
democracy, has a youthful population, and a growing economy.
“The South African academics, business people, trade unions, politicians, media and others had to
make a greater effort to make the argument of how South Africa benefits from Africa and why narrow
xenophobia restricts those benefits. The benefits of economic integration with the continent are real.
South Africa exports various products to African countries such as Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
and many others, and we also import water from Lesotho and many other products from the African
nations,” said Patel.
Invited business representatives also presented their stance on a united Africa that thrives in business
and social integration. Mr Ufikile Khumalo from Scaw Metals narrated the story of how their business
in Africa had contributed to the upliftment of communities. “We value Ubuntu and this must clearly
be visible when we deal with people across different nations. We have learned from the effects of the
recent xenophobic attacks that we have to become good corporate citizens. We are involved in
charities and help people seeking asylum in South Africa,” said Mr Khumalo.
Cosatu’s Sdumo Dlamini said, “The afrophobic attacks remind us that we needed to create a new
economic trajectory. This is necessary for the economic development and our need to intensify
collaboration between the African countries.”
Other contributors to the conversations were Mr Zithulele Combi, Mr Johnny Coplyn, Mr Bobby
Godsell, Dr Iqbal Surve, Mr Issa Aremu, Dr Judith Fessehaie, Mr Thulani Tshifuta, and Honorable
Madala Masuku, all offering solutions to the xenophobic characteristics that hamper economic, social,
and political prosperity in the continent.
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