Winemag.co.za presents the RisCura White Hot Wine Awards 2016
In conjunction with RisCura, a global financial investment services provider, Winemag.co.za is pleased to announce the fourth annual White Hot Wine Awards featuring Bordeaux-style white blends. The Graves sub-region of Bordeaux excels at under-stated, oak-aged dry whites from Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. In simple terms, Sauvignon Blanc provides freshness...
Currency Devaluation, Where are the Opportunities?
While some African countries that are considered great investment opportunities have seen recent currency devaluation, this could create an opportunity for African manufacturers. Import substitution has been a significant part of Africa’s economic growth during the preceding decade, as seen, for example, by Nigerian-based Dangote Group, currently...
Private Equity: A force for good
“What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Although Adam Smith, often referred to as the father of...
Winemag.co.za presents the RisCura Red Hot Wine Awards 2016
In conjunction with RisCura, a global financial services provider, Winemag.co.za is pleased to announce the second annual Red Hot Wine Awards featuring Bordeaux-style red blends. The Bordeaux region in the southwest of France is famous for its red blends, the best of which have the ability to mature with benefit, for many years in bottle....
El Niño – beware the lag effect of this “weather bandit”
While the weather phenomenon appears to have passed, El Niño will continue to impact food security, food prices and humanitarian needs well into 2017, says a new Bright Africa special report from African investment specialists RisCura. Like the archetypal bandit in a classic Western, riding into town and wreaking havoc, El Niño has devastated many...
The effect of El Niño on key Southern African countries
The following section has a strong South Africa focus (the country considered best prepared, and where data is most readily available), which is used to illustrate some of the ripple-effects. Similar analyses can be applied on a regional or country basis. The chart below shows the World Food Programme’s projected timeline for how El Niño...
Opportunities arise from the storm
With issues highlighted by El Niño such as food and water security, poor infrastructure and lack of diversification in economies fresh in everyone’s minds, opportunities exist to highlight the importance of these issues and attempt to address them. Governments in collaboration with the DFIs and the private sector can start to prepare themselves...
Country responses
Country responses to El Niño have differed, with some limiting water usage, banning exports of maize, applying for emergency assistance, as highlighted in the preceding sections. Some additional measures implemented by Eastern and Southern African governments are highlighted below, with a view to illustrating the need for coordinated efforts, and...
An overview of El Niño in Africa
The mechanics of El Niño Despite its ominous name, El Niño is a natural meteorological event that occurs every seven to eight years. Trade winds across the Pacific weaken, and a body of warmer water that usually lies in the Western Pacific Ocean escapes eastward. The shift in temperatures and the release of heat into...
El Niño – threatening food security and disrupting markets
The weather phenomenon El Niño has loomed large in recent global news reports, and while officially considered over, its economic and humanitarian impacts are still mounting, and will continue well into 2017 and beyond. Like the archetypal bandit in a classic Western riding into town and wreaking havoc, El Niño has devastated many regions: some...
