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S.Africa's ANC says turning to China, India
22 May 2012 at 5:00pm
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Western investors have to realise South Africa does not need their money since it can turn increasingly to fellow BRICS members India and China to fund its economic development, the Secretary-General of its ruling ANC said on Tuesday. "There is a dynamic that Western investors must wake up to," Gwede Mantashe, day-to-day head of the African National Congress, told ...
S.Africa's Sasol launches new $423 mln coal shaft
22 May 2012 at 1:28pm
TRICHARDT, South Africa (Reuters) - Petrochemicals group Sasol, the world's top maker of motor fuel from coal, on Tuesday launched a new 3.5 billion rand shaft at its Twistdraai colliery in South Africa to extend the life of the mine beyond 2039. The new shaft, Thubelisha, in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province, will produce up to 10.6 million tonnes of coal per year when it reaches full ...
East Africa to join world gas giants
21 May 2012 at 6:58am
LONDON (Reuters) - To East Africa's assets of spectacular wildlife, abundant land and shimmering beaches you can now add gas - so much gas it could transform global energy flows along with some of the world's poorest countries. Finds announced just last week off Tanzania and Mozambique are estimated to hold enough gas to supply France, Germany, Britain and Italy for at least a year - possibly ...
S.Africa picks next 19 projects in green energy drive
21 May 2012 at 1:24pm
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa has chosen 19 renewable energy projects in the second stage of its drive to cut its reliance on coal-fired plants, and bidders have until December to prove the projects are financially viable, the energy minister said on Monday. Africa's largest economy depends on coal for 85 percent of its electricity supply of around 41,000 MW. In a bid to reduce its carbon ...
S.Africa wants change in import labels, angers Israel
21 May 2012 at 1:37pm
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Israeli goods produced in the occupied Palestinian territories and sold in South Africa may no longer be labelled "Made in Israel," the South African trade minister said on Monday, causing concern in Israel that other countries may follow suit. "We are, through this notice, requiring that they be correctly labelled and it will then be up to consumers in South Africa whether ...
Study: Fake malaria drugs common in Asia, Africa
22 May 2012 at 2:29pm
More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday.
S.Africa's most famous township gets new theater
21 May 2012 at 5:09pm
Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theater during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to train to be an anti-apartheid guerrilla. But he soon stopped training to lead the fight through theater, staging powerful works that exposed the horrors of racist rule to the world.
Eutelsat at Satcom Africa: new Resources and Services to Boost Broadcast and ...
21 May 2012 at 10:31am
JOHANNESBURG, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --?21-24 May 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, Stand 26Closing the infrastructure gap in Africa: innovative satellite solutions for affordable ...
S.Africa maize output f'cast seen at 11.1 mln T
22 May 2012 at 8:13am
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is likely to leave unchanged it maize output forecast for the 2011/12 season with the damage from a late-season drought seen milder than expected, a survey of traders showed on Tuesday. The government's Crop Estimates Committee's (CEC) fourth survey of output on Thursday is likely to show that South Africa will harvest 11.1 million tonnes, according to an ...
Travel to South Africa Thriving Despite Sluggish World Economy; USA Visitors ...
21 May 2012 at 7:51pm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- - Travel to South Africa from the USA is on the rise, just behind the UK and growing still, according to figures released at the Indaba 2012 travel expo in Durban, South Africa this ...
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