M&G interviewed CCRED Senior Economist/Researcher, Thando Vilakazi, on large and lead companies' reserves held instead of reinvesting. The article can be found here.

South African companies are accumulating reserves and not investing in the economy while acquisition-led growth has increased concentration and led to anticompetitive behaviour, says research from the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development.

CCRED Senior Economist/Researcher, Thando Vilakazi, interviewed on SA fm by Tsepiso Makwetla. The interview is on 'SA low investment trend among large JSE firms'.

CCRED Economist/Researcher, Anthea Paelo, interviewed on Fine Music Radio by Lindsay Williams. The interview focuses on the decline of JSE listed firms' investments. 

According to latest research by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, there's still not enough black-owned companies listed on the JSE since 2000. Senior researcher and economist at the centre,Thando Vilakazi, discusses.

New research by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) shows the largest 50 companies listed on the JSE expanded their financial reserves to R1.4-trillion by the end of 2016, contradicting arguments that investment in South Africa was being undermined by a lack of savings.

The structure of the South African economy is characterised by large firms with significant amounts of retained profits, high levels of concentration and skewed patterns of ownership, says Thando Vilakazi, senior economist at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED).

Chicken is the largest and cheapest source of protein for people in Southern Africa. In this video, CCRED Director, Prof. Simon Roberts, looks at the competitiveness of this industry within the region.

CCRED, Senior Researcher, Reena Das Nair, discusses the challenges and bottlenecks that make it very difficult for suppliers to get their products onto supermarket shelves and how some of these challenges can be overcome.

CCRED Senior Researchers, Thando Vilakazi and Reena das Nair's mini-documentary portrays the lack of local suppliers involvement in regional supermarkets expansion.