South Africa

The executive committee of the African National Congress (ANC) agreed [...]

NEW SHIPPING SERVICE

A Taiwan-based company, Uniglory Marine Corporation is to open a new shipping route between Asian ports and Port Louis (Mauritius) [...]

AGRICULTURAL REFORM DEBATE

One of the studies on South Africa complied last year by the World Bank (ION N°557, N°558 & N°559) focuses [...]

A REVEALING INQUIRY

Under the title Regionalism and the Political Allegiances of Black South Africans, the Africa Institute of South Africa has published [...]

CARL WARE

Coca Cola has set up an independent arm in Africa, [...]

DEFINING ELECTION STRATEGY

The African National Congress (ANC) is to hold a national executive committee meeting on February 5 to approve an electoral [...]

The National Party's finance commission (NP, government) last week received [...]

METERS WORTH 30 MILLION RAND

Spescom of South reckons it will earn 30 million rand [...]

THE WORLD BANK TABLES DELICATE URBAN REFORM DEBATE

One of the studies on South Africa complied last year by the World Bank (ION N°557 & N°558) is called, [...]

According to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, South [...]

BOB DENARD

The former commander of the Presidential Guard of the late [...]

The Dutch government has agreed to finance diplomatic courses for [...]

JEAN-DANIEL TORDJMAN

The French ambassador in charge of foreign investments is expected [...]

EGYPT AND LIBYA TARGET SOUTH AFRICA

The leader of the future Egyptian chancellery in South Africa recently visited Pretoria where the Egyptian authorities have already acquired [...]

ELECTRIFICATION CHOICES

After a World Bank mission to South Africa at the beginning of 1992, experts drafted a preliminary report entitled, "A [...]

The city of Johannesburg is high on the list as [...]

NELSON MANDELA

The leader of the African National Congress (ANC) has been [...]

Spotlight
WHAT THE WORLD BANK HAS IN STORE

In the past year, the World Bank has sent a number of missions to South Africa to make different economic studies of the country , from macroeconomic analysis to possibile household electricification programmes, from employment and wages to urban sector [.

BARBARA PLEBANKIEWICZ

Barbara Plebankiewicz has been appointed to the head of the [...]