South Africa

US DUMPING ON SATELLITES

Private United States-based company Panamsat has won a contract to transmit satellite images for South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Using [...]

French company Jeumont Schneider was leading the field for the [...]

SEMINARS IN BRUSSELS AND JO'BURG

A seminar on future relations between the European Community and South Africa will be staged at the convention hall in [...]

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GATT TALK

The first GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) Council meeting on South Africa was held in Geneva at the beginning of June, and the delegates present deplored the instability, complexity and lack of transparency in South Africa's trade policy, [.

MONEY OUT OF EIB IN 1992

According to the 1992 annual report recently issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB), only a third of its credits [...]

SASOL LOOKS KEEN ON TOTAL STAKE

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) was bristling with rumours last week, over the possible acquisition of stock in Total South [...]

CONFERENCE IN BRUSSELS LATE JUNE

Forum Europe, along with the South Africa Foundation, and the South African delegation at the EC, is planning a conference [...]

The South African Reserve Bank has opened an inquiry into [...]

WIDER SASOL-TOTAL ALLIANCE?

Are plans afoot to extend the alliance between Sasol and Total in refining (the Natref refinery at Sasolburg) to include [...]

ARMAND DE MONTBRON

A representative of the company, Legrand (cable and electrical equipment) in South Africa, Armand de Montbron looks as though he [...]

PIK BOTHA

South Africa's foreign minister has written to President Issayas Afewerki [...]

The South Africa International Trade Exhibition (SAITEX), a trade show [...]

FRENCH MISSIONS WAITING IN LINE

Four French trade missions are lined up and preparing for their trips to South Africa, scheduled for October and November. [...]

DOUBLE MOVE FOR GENCOR

Negotiations for Shell's mining interests, which Gencor announced it was seeking at the same time as it finally decided to [...]

AN OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT

Production start-up is planned by Soekor in an area off Mossel Bay where it had announced a series of small [...]

BRITISH TRADE MISSIONS

The Association of British Offshore Industries is planning a trade [...]

PORTUGUESE SCRAMBLED TV CONTRACT

Seculo Printers Pty owned by Portuguese businessman Horacio Roque, who published a Portuguese-language weekly, O seculo de Joanesburgo with circulation [...]

South African exports to Kenya, amounting to 15 million dollars [...]

NELSON MANDELA

President of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, [...]