South Africa
PWYP Africa Statement to Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Heads of State Summit
We are representatives of Southern African civil society organisations that are members of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP)* global coalition, which campaigns for the transparent and accountable management of oil, gas and mining revenues. We welcome the recent Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Heads of State Summit in Kinshasa, and we congratulate the Democratic Republic of Congo on being granted chairmanship of the SADC for a year.
The SADC region has abundant mineral resources which can assist in accelerating the economic and social development and growth of the region.
Transparency is the cure for the "resources curse"
“Transparency is the cure for the resources curse” appeared in the South African paper the Mail & Guardian. Click here to read the article (PDF).
Poor feels curse of black gold
This article was originally published on page 10 of Pretoria News on September 22, 2008
South African oil workers Dan Laarman and Robert Berrie have been released after a mercifully short period as hostages in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta.
They, and most of the world, were probably unaware of the devastating impact the oil industry has had on Africa.
In 2001 Washington called for a major diversification of US oil supplies away from the politically volatile Persian Gulf to “friendlier” sub-Saharan Africa.
