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FRANCEVILLE: Guinea and Botswana will be pressed to win today after both teams lost their opening Africa Cup of Nations Group D matches.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South African grocer Shoprite spends $20,000 a week in import permits to truck meat, milk and other goods to its stores in neighboring Zambia. One of its trucks may need as many as 1,600 documents to cross a border in southern Africa. Another major South African retailer Woolworths pays full tariffs to transport food and clothing to its franchise stores within the Southern ...
Read More... Zambia maize eases southern Africa supply crunchThu, 19 Jan 2012 03:43:29 -0800
JOHANNESBURG/LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia has robust maize stocks and sees little risk in using them to partly fill a regional gap as a supply crunch looms in southern Africa, pushing up futures prices for the staple and accelerating food inflation. South Africa is now importing maize to make up for deficits due to export commitments, while Malawi, which recorded a series of bumper crops helped by ...
Read More... South Africa: Ruling Party to Debate Sweeping Changes to Mining IndustryFri, 10 Feb 2012 07:26:11 -0800
[SAR] The 600-page State Intervention in the Minerals Sector (Sims) report submitted to African National Congress (ANC) leaders in Johannesburg on Friday (3 February 2012) is not about nationalising South Africa's mines.
Read More... ‘Barriers blunt trade within Africa’Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:21:15 -0800
South African grocer Shoprite spends $20,000 a week in import permits to truck meat, milk and other goods to its stores in neighboring Zambia. One of its trucks may need as many as 1,600 documents to cross a border in southern Africa.
Read More... SA escalates regional rail warsFri, 27 Jan 2012 08:40:56 -0800
South Africa has sent a clear message to the SADC region that it will protect its dominant position in the regional logistics' industry by extending its rail link reach through Swaziland.
Read More... Ghana tipped to beat Mali in west African derbyFri, 27 Jan 2012 17:21:43 -0800
The Africa Cup of Nations Group D will serve up a second west African derby when Ghana face Mali on Saturday.
Read More... Electricity, railways and economic declineThu, 09 Feb 2012 07:25:28 -0800
Botswana needs a modern heavy gauge railway to transport 70 - 90 million tonnes of coal to the sea and on to India and China.Whether the route it takes goes to Mozambique or Namibia is less important than having the independent national rail capacity because Cecil Rhodes' narrow gauge from Cape to Bulawayo is no longer fit for the purpose and cannot provide competition to South Africa's planned ...
Read More... Norilsk Nickel eyes S.African platinum sectorTue, 07 Feb 2012 05:10:58 -0800
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Russia's Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium, is looking at platinum mine acquisitions in South Africa to boost its PGM output over the next decade, a senior official said on Tuesday. Norilsk Nickel is already in South Africa, which accounts for about three quarters of the world's platinum output, where it has a 50/50 joint venture in ...
Read More... Political tug-of-war and electoral violenceThu, 09 Feb 2012 07:37:34 -0800
"Undemocratic leaders and post-electoral violence:Can the story change in Southern Africa?" Asks author *MAVIS MATENGE
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