South Africa
Online Resources
- U.S. Commercial Service in South AfricaSite developed by U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service with a market overview of South Africa for U.S. companies. Services include providing counsel on market opportunities, overview of doing business in South Africa, assistance in locating agents/distributors, industry information, and conduction of market research.
- Doing Business in South AfricaThis page summarizes the World Bank's Doing Business 2019 data for South Africa. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 190 economies) and the rankings by each topic. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.
- All Africa NewsAggregates, produces, and distributes news and information from over 140 African news organizations and their own reporters to an African and global public.
- Africa Business PagesFeatures listings for African and international suppliers. Includes industry reports from across the continent.
- AfricaPLCAn e-commerce site that Includes news items centered on market developments in Africa as well as links detailing African industries and suppliers. Also features information on the main export items in each African country.
- South African Reserve BankThe South African Reserve Bank is the central bank of South Africa. Features up-to-date news stories concerning the bank, press releases, monetary rates, and financial publications.
Business Databases
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowExplore all aspects of business from both scholarly and non-scholarly sources (news, trade publications). This collection includes case studies, country reports, company profiles, financial data, market research reports, and SWOT analyses in addition to books, journal articles, and trade magazines. Coverage: 1886 to present. Full text.
- EconLit (Economic Literature) This link opens in a new windowSearch peer-reviewed journals, working papers from international sources, books, book chapters, and dissertations on economics topics including capital markets, econometrics, government regulations, macro- and microeconomics, monetary theory and more. Coverage: 1969 to present. Some full text.
- Economist Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess historical Economist news magazine issues, including supplements, special reports, surveys, full-color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers. This magazine is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1843-2020, contains primary sources. Full text.
- Financial Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess the complete run of the London edition of the Financial Times daily business newspaper from its first issue to the end of 2016, to study history, business, management, finance and politics. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included; they are shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. This newspaper is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1888 to 2016, contains primary sources. Full text.
- MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new windowAccess up to date information on businesses, industries, and countries for business research. Coverage: current. Full text.
- PrivCo Private Company Data This link opens in a new windowAccess business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded, United States corporations, including family-owned or owner-operated firms that have no financial data available elsewhere, as well as fast-growing venture capital and private equity-backed startups, and international unlisted companies. Focus is on companies that are earning at least $1 million in annual revenue or have at least $1 million in venture capital backing. New company profiles, funding rounds and deals being added weekly. Search individual companies or build company lists and download/export data by industry, size, location, and more. Coverage: current. Full text.