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BMW Alpina D3 BiTurbo Limousine
(photo: Public Domain / TTTNIS)
BMW gives thumbs up for company's local operations
Business Report
  | By Roy Cokayne | Submit your comment | BMW of gemany has given the future viability of its operations and investments in South Africa the thumbs up and expressed confidence about the stability of the business and political environment in the country. | Norbert Reithofer, the chief executive...
A company sign of BAE Systems is seen at a plant in Guildford, England, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
(photo: AP / Sang Tan)
'Outrage' as BAE Systems probes end after £280m deal
BBC News
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | BAE Chairman Dick Olver: "We need to be a transparent, modern, clean company" | Campaigners have attacked a deal struck by UK defence contractor BAE Systems to end inquiries into its affairs. | The firm is to admit two crimi...
Zimbabwean mines minister in trouble over diamond mine partners
m&c
| Harare - Controversy deepened Monday over the Zimbabwean government's handling of the Chiadzwa diamond field in the eastern Zimbabwe, with revelations of serious irregularities by the mines minister and the South African companies involved. | A par...
Debate on nationalising the mines in South Africa
Metals Place
| A storm erupted in policy circles in South Africa after Julius Malema the leader of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) boldly proclaimed the need for the mining industry in South Africa to be nationalized. The demand was predicated ...
Web: German study could help local car dealerships
Business Report
  | By Roy Cokayne | Submit your comment | A number of “shocking” business practices by vehicle dealerships has been uncovered by study of 424 dealerships in Germany. | The results of the survey can provide some pointers to beleaguered dealershi...
Banks prepare South African hospital chain IPO-sources
Business Report
  | * Banks working on IPO of Life Healthcare | Submit your comment | Investment banks are preparing Life Healthcare, one of South Africa's biggest private-hospital operators, for a public listing later this year, people familiar with the matter...
For a Secure Middle East
WN / marzena
For a Secure Middle East
Khaleej Times
In my opinion a secure Middle East requires full appreciation of the past, a full understanding of the present and a vision for the future. | It is a vision of a Middle East that l...
Gold necklaces are displayed in a New York jewelry store window on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Gold futures on Thursday, March 13, 2008 hit $1,000 an ounce for the first time, pushed past the benchmark by the sinking dollar and record crude oil prices. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)hg3
AP Photo / Mark Lennihan
Poor Eritreans increasingly joining gold rush
The Guardian
* High gold price encourages villagers to mine * Some artisanal miners use mercury to extract gold By Jeremy Clarke ASMARA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - More than a dozen foreign mining firms...
50 Rand Banknote
GFDL
Rand slips on stronger dollar, stocks seen down
Business Report
  | * Rand dips further, weighs on govt bonds | Submit your comment | South Africa's rand slipped further against a resurgent dollar on Thursday, while stock futures dipped, t...
No Tax Incentives for Spare Parts Imports
All Africa
The Minister of Trade, Ms. Hannah Tetteh, has stated that the spare parts dealers at Abossey Okai, who are mostly importers of spare parts, especially used ones cannot access tax incentives. | ...
Oteh Reads the Riot Act to Capital Market Operators
All Africa
Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ms Arunma Oteh has said that the era of sharp practices is over as the commission under her leadership would not tolerate any form of impropriety or sharp practices in the country's capital m...
WB to Partner Govt to Create Jobs
All Africa
World Bank Group President, Mr. Robert B. Zoellick, has observed that teeming unemployed youth in any country anywhere is a threat to social stability and all measures should be explored to significantly reduce it to accepted levels. This is one of t...
Business
South Africa leader Mr. Nelson Mandela - politics-am1
(photo: PIB)
20 years after Mandela's release, social divide endures
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | Nelson Mandela's release from prison 20 years ago Thursday ushered in South Africa's democracy, but an intractable social divide has dimmed the sparkle of the nation's "rainbow miracle". | Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) steered the country from the brink of civil war to prospering democracy, in a transforma...



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