Khadija Sharife

Not all tax havens are equal - nor are their services homogenous. Certain regions can be classified as 'secrecy jurisdictions', providing banking secrecy and an environment that does not call for disclosure concerning beneficial owners, shareholders, directors and company accounts.

The Africa-focused company, with a resource base of 261 million carats, recently landed a US$40 million loan agreement with the World Bank's opaque International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support the expansion of the company's Williamson

Where I come from, South Africa, Naspers is a pretty big deal, handling everything from print (production, publishing and distribution of newspapers, books and magazines), to internet (content, communication and commerce) and television.

Here in South Africa, consumption of rooibos tea, rusks and biltong (dried and spiced beef), is a national past-time. Sure, we engage in other activities – work, procreation, exercise, showering.

If former apartheid statesman PW Botha is to be believed, the voluntary oil embargo cost the apartheid regime a great deal. ‘Between 1973 and 1984 the Republic of South Africa had to pay R22 billion more than it would have normally spent,’ he stated in 1986.

Green Resources Ltd, Africa's largest forestation company, appears to be an entity with a sustainable mission, ranging from ranging from recuperation of wood waste to carbon sequestration.

More than half of the world's tropical forests have been devoured through
market-driven consumption. But preventing global deforestation is not as easy as
it sounds: the global supply chain from origin to disposal is rarely accounted

From 1998–2000, when food aid constituted almost 25 per cent of total imports, and 23 per cent of children were classified as underweight, just 10 per cent of Kenya's large-scale farms were productive.

At one point during our conversation, the phone goes dead.

When is a tax haven not a tax haven? When Mauritius' Vice Prime Minister Ramakrishna Sithanen says so. ‘We are a not a tax haven,’ stated Sithanen, who is also the country's minister of finance.