Acquisition of a new a grade retial shopping centre anchored by multi-national tenants with US dollar underpined leases.

As South Africa today attends its first BRICS summit as a full member of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) club of nations, global commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) re-affirms its commitment to the country

A new network of infrastructure practitioners in the public and public sectors was launched on Tuesday to address Africa's large and growing infrastructure gap, which is estimated at US$31 billion a year.

Hardware Warehouse said it would this year continue to explore opportunities to diversify the group's revenue streams by selectively expanding the SADC.

Building materials retailer Hardware Warehouse yesterday said it would this year continue to explore opportunities to diversify the group's revenue streams by selectively expanding the Southern African Development Community region and, later, across other parts of Africa.

Murray and Roberts is upbeat about prospects, with directors expecting real growth in headline earnings in the year to June 30 2006

Outlook for 2004

Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries would run out of capacity to meet electricity demand by 2007

Too much of the economic debate is conducted in a statistical vacuum.

Economic indicators for the SADC region.