The government is trying to attract cement companies into the country, as it responds to a growing demand from uranium mines and to a backlog in housing, Steve Motinga, Director of Industrial Development in the Ministry of Trade and Industry,
Australian explorer Impact Minerals has struck a strategic alliance to explore for and develop nickel-platinum deposits in southern Africa with World No. 2 global platinum producer, Impala Platinum.
Albert Milton has been appointed the General Manager of Morupule Colliery Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Debswana Diamond Company, with effect from 1st of August 2008.
After this week's round of data releases, it is noticeable that inflation in all the major economies is becoming a headache that needs to be watched. Across the globe, annual price indices are hovering around the 5% mark.
The Luanda International Trade Fair (FIL 2008) enters its fourth day of activities this Friday, with attention turned to the firms in the oil field, such as Sonangol, BP-Angola, Chevron, Angola-LMG, Galp, AgrinSul, among others.
The second Telecom's Information, Communication and Technology Summit opened yesterday in the capital with much fanfare and anticipation over the future of global communication.
Minibus taxi drivers got the chance to show off their driving skills when they underwent special testing in the third Western Cape leg of a national Number 1 Taxi Driver campaign.
Seven companies and one individual have been selected in a tender to prospect for diamonds in the basin of the Save river, which marks the conventional boundary between southern and central Mozambique.
Maputo's publicly owned bus company, TPM, is gradually reopening old routes within the Maputo-Matola connurbation that had been temporarily suspended because of a shortage of buses, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
The United States trade representative, Ambassador Susan Schwab, and her counterparts from east and southern Africa signed two important trade and investment agreements that will further deepen and expand US trade ties with those regions.
Namibia is happy that the UN body charged with monitoring trade in endangered species has approved China's plea to buy more than 100 tons of elephant ivory from four Southern African countries, the Director of Scientific Services in the Ministry
FINANCIAL shares, the whipping boy of the markets for the past two years, continued their unprecedented two-day rally yesterday, their dramatic rebound coinciding with the second-highest volume of shares traded in a single day on the JSE.
WE note the observations made by Zambia United Local Authorities Workers Union (Zulawu) general secretary, Oast Choongo, about some difficulties faced by councils, whose budgets were turned down by the ministry of Local Government and Housing.
It was announced last May that the Activox Refinery project being built near Francistown by Tati Nickel, a subsidiary of Russia's Norilsk Nickel, was to be postponed indefinitely.
The future of the 461 ex-employees of Debswana, who were fired in 2004 gets bleaker every day, as the resolution to their case continually shifts into the distant future.
CIC Energy (TSX: ELC, BSE: CIC Energy) reported a loss for the three month period ended May 31, 2008 of US$2,6 million (P16.7m) or $0.05 per share (basic and diluted), and a loss for the six month period of $4,089,000
SPECULATION that an official revamp of consumer price data will lead to lower inflation next year was good, because it would reduce inflation expectations, treasury director-general Lesetja Kganyago said yesterday.
