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Article: Corporate citizens, colonialists, tourists or activists? Ethical challenges facing South African corporations in Africa.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Corporate Citizenship
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Since the country's first democratic elections in 1994, South African corporations have steadily increased their investments and operations in other parts of Africa. The South African economy is by far the dominant economy on the African continent, illustrated by the fact that, although the South African population constitutes only 5% of the African population, the country contributes 30% of the continent's combined GDP. Given this dominance, there are interesting similarities between global multinational corporations and their impact on the rest of the world, and South African corporations and their smaller-scale impact on the rest of Africa. The degree to which South ...