Officially, HIV/Aids will account for 7,3 million deaths by 2015. Add to this a steady decline in the African population birth-rate and your sobering picture of South Africa's future retail prospects is complete.

South Africa's HIV-Aids problem is forcing retailers to restructure their business and expand into new markets because their customer base is dying.

Far from the anticipated trend of spatial displacement that technology is expected to promote - along with it the capitulation of traditional business districts

SA HAD to guard against unrealistic expectations that its exports to the US under the US's Africa Growth and Opportunity Act would grow overnight, said SA's clothing export council chairman Jack Kipling.

CAPE TOWN The R3bn tax incentive for strategic manufacturing projects announced by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel in his budget speech last week...

SA IS stuck in an economic and industrial policy vacuum. That is why Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin cannot agree on incentives for investors in big projects.

PURCHASING managers are becoming more optimistic about the prospects for a turnaround in SA's manufacturing sector despite a slump in output in the sector, according to the latest PMI.

There is broad-ranging agreement that investment incentives are far less important in attracting direct investment, domestic or foreign,

Independent economics think-tank warns that SA manufacturing could be facing inevitable decline

THE new industrial development zone programme that was published in the Government Gazette will not assist SA to meet the challenge of globalisation.