NOTE: The portfolio examination has three (3) question. The first is a value chain analysis of a given situation in case of Rand manipulation. The second (2) use of Balance Score Card (BSC) to mining mineral beneficiation, question three (3): TOC vs. Venture Capital to sustain economic growth and development through mining minerals beneficiation.

Rand manipulation: Competition Tribunal includes 9 more big banks, rules it can hear case Compiled by Ahmed Areff The commission is accusing the 28 banks of colluding on forex deals and thus manipulating the foreign exchange market by "fixing" the value of the Rand for several seconds and even minutes several times between 2007 and until at least September 2013. It alleged that they were all part of a "single overarching conspiracy" to manipulate the value of the Rand to foreign currencies. "The commission maintains that the manipulation impacted on the exchange rate of the South African value of the Rand which, in turn, affected various parts of the South African economy including imports and exports; foreign direct investment; public and private debt; company balance sheets, with the attendant implications for the price of goods and services; and financial assets," the tribunal said.

1. Discuss and support by means of diagram(s) on how Rand value manipulation have impacted to the export of products value chain between countries. (40 marks) Note: Please focus on showing practical relationships between the political circumstances, employment, production, and revenues/ exchange rates.

2. Beneficiation, or value-added processing, involves the transformation of a primary material (produced by mining and extraction processes) to a more finished product, which has a higher export sales value. Nearly half the worlds gold and one-third of all minerals are in Africa. Lets assume youre one of the African countries that have imported more than US $ 111.3 billion worth of finished goods from around the globe, which are made from the countrys raw mining minerals due to lack of mining minerals beneficiation. You are appointed to reduce the imported finish goods made from raw mining minerals from your own country through use of extraction and mining mineral beneficiation. Make use of discussion using the Balance Score Card (BSC) to present the minerals beneficiation project to the department of economic development. (40 Marks). Please support by means of diagram.

3. Make use of the answers you provided in Question 2 to identify the constraints and suggest some recommendations for improving the sustainable long-term economic growth and development in the African countries mineral beneficiation process. (20 Marks)