South Africa

TREVOR MANUEL

The head of the Economic Policy and Planning Department of [...]

Just a few months before the scheduled opening of its [...]

CRAIG WILLIAMSON

According to Southscan newsletter published in London, citing a former comrade of Craig Williamson when he belonged to the South [...]

AID FROM EC TO RESTRUCTURE POLICE

The African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government have apparently accepted the offer made by the European Community [...]

French company, Air Liquide has won, in association with its [...]

JEAN KHALFA

Former director of the French Centre in Cambridge, England, Jean [...]

In 1991, Taiwan was one of the two trading partners, [...]

NEW SASOL CONTRACT FOR L'AIR LIQUIDE

In conjunction with Spie-Batignolles, the French concern Air Liquide has [...]

UPDATE ON ARMS TRAFFICKING

According to estimates made by the South African authorities, nearly two million arms, stocked or in circulation in Mozambique, have [...]

GREEN LIGHT FOR US FLIGHTS TO JO'BURG

The United States transport secretary has given the go-ahead for US Africa Airways (USAA) to fly passenger and cargo flights [...]

BANK TRAINING PROJECT FOR ANC ?

Director of the Swiss charity organisation, Pain pour le Prochain (Bread for the People), Christine von Garnier has intervened on [...]

MORE MINERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA

The government in Maputo has called on the authorities in South Africa to increase the number of Mozambican miners employed [...]

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HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Southern African power companies are being forced to make ever-increasing power cuts because of low water levels due to the unprecedented drought that has gripped the south-east corner of the continent this year. In Tanzania, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corp.

MORE MOZAMBIQUE MINERS?

Layoffs are continuing in South African mines, with 40 000 jobs lost over the past four years in the gold [...]

GENREF HAS COMPLETED THE FIRST PHASE OF AN EXPANSION PROGRAMME

Genref is the former Wentworth Mobil Refinery at Durban which [...]

Linde to build olefines unit for Sasol

Sasol has awarded the German company Linde the engineering work [...]

FRANCE OFFICIALLY LIFTS EMBARGO

In line with the EC's decision in April to lift [...]

IMPORTS RISE AT SLOWER RATE

An official from the South African trade mission in Harare, Henning Visser, cited by Zimbabwean weekly, The Financial Gazette of [...]

NEW US SUGAR QUOTAS

The United States has decided to cut preferential or tax free sugar quotas by eleven percent from October 1, 1992, [...]