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Rhinos in South Africa's Welgevonden Game Reserve.
SOUTH AFRICA Business 15/02/2021

Former Dutch asset manager Frank Vogel runs into problems with his neighbours in white rhino territory 

South Africa's wildlife reserves, which often receive financial support from foreign family offices, also attract European financiers, particularly when they have been in trouble with the authorities in their home countries. Dutchman Frank Vogel took up residence in a small nature reserve in South Africa's Limpopo province, where he soon became a director and one of its financial backers. [...]
RUSSIA AFRICA Business 14/12/2020

Russia's BPC group aims to tighten its grip on African banks' e-money systems 

As mobile payment continues to develop rapidly in Africa, one of the groups best positioned to take advantage of the boom is a little known company operating out of Switzerland, Dubai and Russia. BPC Banking Technologies is one of the pearls of Russian technology like anti-virus producer Kaspersky and, although it is officially private, it has the backing of Russia's leading state-owned bank. [...]
Legal exploitation of cannabis for medical use.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Business 19/10/2020

Southern Africa's other green revolution 

The slow legalisation of the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes, which got under way in Canada and the United States in 2016, has started a veritable agricultural revolution in Africa. From the mountains of Lesotho to the South African coast, taking in Malawi and Zimbabwe, the sector's major operators have set up partnerships with local entrepreneurs able to oversee plantations and talk to governments about the liberalisation of a form of cultivation which is still largely forbidden on the continent. [...]

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