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Egypt has toppled South Africa from the second place.
Ford already has production hubs in South Africa's BRICS partners, China and India.
Opposition parties announced they would hold street protests demanding Zuma step down.
The worst drought in more than a century has hurt manufacturing and cut farming output.
Zuma and Hollande were appointed by the United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon.
The biggest emerging economies opened their New Development Bank in Shanghai in July this year.
He also promised that state-owned companies "that are no longer relevant to our development agenda will be phased out".
South Africa ranks as one of the richest countries in natural resources from gold to iron ore.
South Africa-China trade jumped by 32 per cent between 2012 from R205 billion to R270 billion in 2013, making China the country’s largest trading partner.
ChinaGuangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corp., and Russia's Rosatom Corp have expressed interest in building the new South African plants.
