Shaun Benton

Cape Town – Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana on Tuesday said he trusted that members of South Africa's Chinese community would be more compliant with the country's labour legislation now that a court ruling had rendered them as “coloureds”.

Fin24.com

Johannesburg - A huge interest rate shock awaits South Africans as the monetary authorities consider hiking rates by another 200 basis points. Most economists have predicted rates only to increase - at...

Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Private sector development is seen as increasingly necessary to stimulate economic growth, reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals....

IOL

A wonder fuel-saving pill has entered the local market but the Automobile Association warned consumers on Monday to be cautious of such products.

EU

While the world has a war of words over whether food should be used for fuel or feeding people, Brazil – the country which relies on biofuel – said the case is closed as far as it’s concerned. Food is for fuel.

Bathandwa Mbola

Pretoria - Indebted South Africans will have to dig further into their pockets following the South African Reserve Bank's (SARB's) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announcement of the hike in the repo rate by 50 basis points.

Edwin Tshivhidzo

Mpumalanga – Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla has been invited by the South African High Commissioner in Mozambique Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe to address a business lunch in Maputo.

BuaNews

Pretoria - South African chemical, mining and agricultural company Omnia has entered into an agreement with the International Finance Corporation to sell up to one million carbon credits over the next five years.

Pretoria – Motorists are set to dig deeper into their pockets when the petrol price increases on Wednesday.

The retail petrol price is set to increase by between 66 cents and 68 cents a litre. The...

BuaNews

Pretoria – The revised Capital Projects Feasibility Programme, which is intended to facilitate feasibility studies, will increase South Africa’s exports, stimulate growth for the local capital goods and services sector and allied industries.

NBC

Both unleaded and leaded petrol are to increase by 37 cents a litre, while the price of diesel is to increase by 51 cents a litre.

Kagiso Metswamere

Potchefstroom - Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has called on every member of the community to partner with government in the fight against poverty.

Nthambeleni Gabara

Cape Town - The Paraffin Safety Association is urging all household energy consumers to support its consumer rights campaign which calls for government to formulate and implement the Low Income Household Energy Safety Policy.

Edwin Tshivhidzo

Johannesburg – Tourism in Johannesburg’s inner city has received a boost with the establishment of an upmarket four star hotel.

Nthambeleni Gabara

Berne - Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has concluded her five-day visit to Switzerland by opening a trade investment road show.

Luyanda Makapela

Johannesburg – South African Tourism and Kulula.com are expected to promote domestic travel by highlighting the ease and affordability of local flights to different provinces in the country.

The Namibian government plans to stay the course with export processing zones (EPZ) despite one of the largest of the foreign investors, Malaysian textile company Ramatex, deciding last week to close down its operations--a move that will destroy 3,000 jobs.
Ramatex came to Namibia in 2001. The one billion Namibian dollar project (about 127 million dollars) was the first large-scale industrialisation investment in the country, with an incentive package including subsidised water and electricity and a 99-year lease exemption for the 65 hectare site.

BuaNews

Pretoria – The Production Price Index (PPI) came in at 10.4 percent year on year (y/y) in January, reported Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Thursday. On a month-to-month basis, January’s PPI increased by 1 percent.

Michael Hearns

Israeli fugitive Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander briefly became the centre of attention during a seminar on money laundering co-hosted by the Bank of Namibia and the US Embassy in Windhoek

IRIN

LUSAKA, 27 February 2008 (IRIN) - International investors are toasting Zambia's fast-growing economy, but economists and social rights activists point out that it is yet to make a serious dent in poverty.