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10 Feb 2015
Blair: I am off to the East Coast of Africa now. I get a
huge sense of joy and optimism whenever I am in Africa.
10 Feb 2015
When Harold McMillan made his Winds of Change speech, Blair's dad was teaching in Sierra Leone.
10 Feb 2015
Blair sidesteps getting into UK politics: There are two great alliance of the UK - the US and the EU. Those are the two pillars that you can build all sorts of new relationships. It is important to realise that those alliances are the most determined when there is a crisis. It is important for the UK to play for the full part in these alliances.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: With regard to Ukraine - I am not saying Europe has handled this well. Let's hope Minsk can come to a solution, but the people of Ukraine must make their own mind up.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: I believe this is the single biggest security challenge of our time. We need the force capacity to get this out and we need to improve education systems that encourage this. The only world worth living in is one where everyone has equal rights and respect for all.
10 Feb 2015
“With Eskom
as our foundation customer, we will be able to put in place the infrastructure
required to unlock the basin. There will be a 400 km pipeline connecting our
field directly into the market and Ankerlig and into Saldanha,” said Sunbird
managing director Will Barker.
FULL STORY
10 Feb 2015
Blair:
There are two types of unions. The service unions, who they
realise the conflict at local level but understand the higher level of what is
happening. Then you have politicised unions, which can be problematic. It is
very important when dealing with industries that have a history of exploitation
– they need to improve conditions. There needs to be a sense of partnerships.
When politics comes in, it does become very hard.
10 Feb 2015
Aleg Hogg on Ngoako Ramatlhodi's presence at the Mining Indaba: SA mining needs all the help it can get
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10 Feb 2015
Aleg Hogg on Ngoako Ramatlhodi's presence at the Mining Indaba: SA mining needs all the help it can get
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10 Feb 2015
Blair: Take steps that should have been taken long ago and that can now be seen quite visibly, to get your country back on your feet.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: (Lessons from ebola) They can now look at what they can do as various countries working together.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: The response to ebola was too slow and investors were scared off. It seems to be improving now but there is a lot of work. In this crisis, there is a real opportunity. I have seem those governments effectively (slowly at start and with outside help). I say, take that lesson for when normal times return, like your health system.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: The response to ebola was too slow and investors were scared off. It seems to be improving now but there is a lot of work. In this crisis, there is a real opportunity. I have seem those governments effectively (slowly at start and with outside help). I say, take that lesson for when normal times return, like your health system.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: African governments today look for options. They look to Brazil, the UK, China - they want a range of options. It is important to diversify economically so you are not subjected to a fall off in say China. Then your own economy gets depressed.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: To get the best investors in, governments should get investors together to co-operate. The best spirit to do things is through co-operation, trust and relationships.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: To get the best investors in, governments should get investors together to co-operate. The best spirit to do things is through co-operation, trust and relationships.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: Government and business need a deeper relations to work completed things out and to build relationships so when they go into a meeting for a deal, there is trust. It is worth spending money. It is worth negotiating with the best people alongside you.
10 Feb 2015
Mineral
Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi earlier told delegates at the Mining
Indaba that South Africa offers a stable mining environment for investors as
well as respect for the law.
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10 Feb 2015
Blair: Education is enormously important. I plead with governments in Africa. They ask me when they will get an education system like the one in UK. There is a revolutionary way of using technology to educate. I would use private/public partnerships. I would draw from all the innovations from around the world. Even for low-income families
10 Feb 2015
Blair: Whatever challenges such as ebola and extremism, if
you take the continent as a whole and compare it to 20 years ago, the progress
is enormous. Investment in long term, so the fluctuations in the commodity
prices and the market, Africa is a great place to invest. I never regret the interest I have taken in Africa.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: Whatever challenges such as ebola and extremism, if
you take the continent as a whole and compare it to 20 years ago, the progress
is enormous. Investment in long term, so the fluctuations in the commodity
prices and the market, Africa is a great place to invest. I never regret the interest I have taken in Africa.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: Large companies looking to invest. There are examples
in Africa of what works and what doesn’t. The challenge is to put systems in
government to implement and get things done.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: My party had been out of 10 Downing street for 18
years. When you win an election you go into Downing street the next day and the
predecessor walks out the back door, just as the new PM walks in. I remember when I walked in on my first day. The staff applauded the former PM. When I
walked in. the staff were weeping. I was feeling guilty about the whole thing.
I went into the cabinet room. The chief civil servant – a very grand person – said
to me and a very British way. “Well done. Now what?” That’s the great issue of
governance. You can be a great communicator, which gets you the job, but once
in power, you’re a CEO and need to run a business.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: 5. Business environment. Quality of government – its effectiveness
to get things done is a vital importance to a successful investment playing
field.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: 4. Taxation. Paying taxes is important and the
predictability of the taxation system is important. They will deter investment
if there is no predictability.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: 2. There needs to be benefit for local investors. Governments need to boost productivity with local businesses through education and other means.
10 Feb 2015
Blair: For a developing country today, access to electricity is the main fundamentals for success for the country to be connected to the world.
10 Feb 2015
1. Where people are making investments in mining, they will look beyond
investment to infrastructure like roads and power. The government will
want to see the partnership dealing with the right issues for its
people.
