When asked by a global survey about conditions in South Africa, businesspeople are pessimistic. However, the economic and global competitiveness reality of South Africa is decidedly more upbeat.

When asked by a global survey about conditions in South Africa, businesspeople are pessimistic. However, the economic and global competitiveness reality of South Africa is decidedly more upbeat.

Terror groups seeking to disrupt African economies as a means of attacking central governments are looking to the seas. With African nations dependant on imports from abroad arriving by ship and commodities and local products vital to their foreign trade exported by sea, the severing of these commercial arteries would be catastrophic.