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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.