Zusammenfassung der Ressource
South Africa
- Culture
- Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
- Close match to ireland
- Colonial past
- Ease of doing business
- World Bank rating; Ranked at #39 in world
- Other BRICS lower, Russia @ #91 is best
- Starting a business, permits, power,
paying tax, enforcing contracts
- Corruption
- Corruption
Perception Index
- Highest ranked in BRICS and higher than Italy
and Greece
- Corporate taxes
- 28% since 2008
- Russia @ 20%
- Government
- Large Majority party ANC
- In power since end of Apartheid in 1994
- Democratically Elected
- Led by Jacob Zuma
- SA 2030 Strategic Plan
- Develop Infrastructure
- Education and Health Care
- Short\Medium term 3 year plan
- Grow GDP, keep deficit flat
- 4.5 vs. 3.5%
- HDI
- Low score in comparison with BRIC (higher than india)
- Low life expectancy due to high proportion of HIV \ Aids sufferers
- 2013 score is expected to be 0.629 (below world average)
- Education
- Decline in birth rate, shift from quantity to quality
- Labor Force
- 10-40% will have AIDS or HIV, depending on industry
- BEE act
- Unemployment @ 25%
- 5.9% White
- 35.6% Black
- Short term gap for experienced \ qualified workers filled from Zimbabwe
- Infrastructure
- Two tiered economy, one with developed
features, the other with poor infrastructure
- PPP to be used to improve road, rail and
port facilities
- Recent infrastructure improvements for the
2010 World Cup and 2013 African Cup of
Nations
- Trade Agreements
- Chinese trade, up by C.36% overall
from 2011
- China now accounts for 13% of the import and
export market
- SA in BRICS
- Smallest Country and
economy
- Huge market in Africa, particularly
SADC
- Competition from other African countries -
Egypt, Nigeria
- Economy
- Largest Sector is Finance and Business Service (40% GDP)
- 17th Largest Stock Exchange in the world in
Joberg
- Mining was 21% GDP in 1970, now 9%, but still 60% of export value
- 71% of World Platinum production, 95% of
reserves
- Imports higher than exports - Govt Plan to increase production of finished goods.