These are some of the questions BBC Africa Debate will be exploring in its next edition to be recorded and broadcast from Johannesburg South Africa on 31st August 2012.
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Earlier a proposal that would have seen a restriction on the number of rhino horns that could be exported as sports trophies from South Africa and Swaziland was withdrawn in the face of opposition.
It also benefits from sharing a border with South Africa, from where helicopters could be rushed.
Protectionism only links well-connected businesses with the government in opposition to the public, which welcomes quality goods at competitive prices, whether they be iPads from China, wines from South Africa, or wheat from whoever can grow it best.
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He dislodged Thabo Mbeki as head of the ANC and later used support from the ruling party to be elected South Africa's president.
The teachers from Zithobeni will be the first community in South Africa to work with UNESCO's MIL Curriculum, which is not yet available to a large public.
The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December, just a year after the United Nations Climate Change conference held in Cancun in 2010, and two years after the Copenhagen Conference.
The next working meeting of the ESDA programme partners will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 28 August to 1 September 2010.
On rhinos, Kenya is proposing that there should be a moratorium on the export of trophy horns from South Africa and Swaziland, which are currently exempt.
The scrap for second in Spain's pool could well be the other interesting storyline from the competition, as South Africa, Iraq and New Zealand fight it out for a place in the final four.
Development Program report warned that because of the ravages of the disease, South Africa's economy may be slipping from developing status to underdeveloped.
"If you look at where the majors seem to be doing their business, many of them are withdrawing from South Africa, " says Charles Bond of the law firm Gowlings.
Yet much needs to be done if South Africa is to win a lot more business from abroad.
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There is serious work to be done if they want to prevent their stay in South Africa from being a brief and painful one.
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Leiweke added that the former England skipper would not be required to return from Milan to Los Angeles before the World Cup in South Africa.
The two finalists at the Rose Bowl on 26 July will be put forward against the best 20-over sides from Australia, India and South Africa.
In statements, South Africa called for a candidate from a developing country to be named as Strauss-Kahn's successor, while Brazil called for establishing criteria and conducting a thorough search.
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Beckham, who is in his second loan stint with Milan from LA Galaxy, will almost certainly not be fit for the tournament in South Africa, which starts on 11 June.
Flower is expected to be interviewed in England soon after the squad return from the West Indies, with South Africa coach Mickey Arthur and Gary Kirsten, in charge of India, also believed to be on the shortlist.
However, South African Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies believes that although China may be shrinking the local clothing sector, South Africa and the continent at large benefit from its huge mining investments.
Without taking away from the merits of South Africa's comeback, it does seem to be true that Paraguay are struggling to last the full 90 minutes.
They point to other independent observers - the free press who've been there in Zimbabwe - not the BBC of course who is banned and I'm having to report from the border with Zimbabwe, in South Africa and there is going to be that split.
Supplies of palladium are forecast to be tighter overall due to lower sales of Russian state stocks partly offset by slightly higher shipments from South Africa, Johnson Matthey reported.
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Invariably, the EuroPro tour attracts players from all over the globe and hopefuls from South Africa, Australia, Europe as well as the UK and Ireland will be in the field.
The Kolpak ruling allows players from countries with associate trade agreements with the European Union - such as South Africa - to be treated as non-overseas players.
The problems with PGM production in South Africa come on the heels of news from Norilsk, which said PGM output should be flat year-over-year for 2012, at 2.780 million ounces of palladium and 690, 000 ounces of platinum.
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Some people fear that if you push hard for abolition as an end in itself, the effect could be destabilising in a world that, despite vociferous disarmament demands from Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Ireland, South Africa and so on, still relies on America's extended nuclear umbrella for much of its security.
In the southern town of Beitbridge, which borders South Africa, 91 people have died from cholera while several more thousand people are believed to be infected.
Such laws need to be revised, or scrapped, with small firms, of which South Africa has far too few, exempted from all but the most basic requirements in employment contracts.
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