Over R2 billion investments secured in Eastern Cape
from NJABULO MKHIZE in Port Elizabeth PORT ELIZABETH – SOUTH Africa’s foremost investment hotspot for exporting companies has signed funding worth R2,6 billion (US$187,27 million) ...
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Wave of optimism in teeming DRC mining industry
from JEAN KASSONGO in Kinshasa, DRC KINSHASA – GOVERNMENT, industry leaders, investors and other stakeholders are optimistic about the future of the mining industry despite the nu ...
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One Planet Summit showcases Africa’s role against climate change
from MARIA MACHARIA in Nairobi, Kenya NAIROBI - WHILE Africa is responsible for merely 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, 65 percent of the continent’s estimated popula ...
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Labour body resists splitting of Eskom
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG - THERE are differences within South Africa’s tripartite alliance following the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa of plans to privatise sta ...
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Mixed news for Africa in Trump’s pick at World Bank
from TRACEY IRVING in Washington, USA WASHINGTON – A KEY player from Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign is set to head the World Bank. Mr Trump has selected US treasury officia ...
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Maize soap and mixed views at climate summit
from ANDRZEJ KOWALCYK in Katowice, Poland KATOWICE - It was never going to be easy holding a United Nations climate-change meeting in a country that gets 80 per cent of its energ ...
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Buyanga backs Zimbabwe parastatal reforms
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG - SOUTH African-based businessman, Frank Buyanga, has welcomed moves by the Zimbabwe government to reform parastatals, saying this would curb corru ...
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Egypt to build world’s biggest clean-coal plant
from AHMED MOOLA in Cairo, Egypt CAIRO – AS ports go, even sailors could struggle to find Hamrawein on the map. This town on the Red Sea, 600 kilometres south-east of Cairo is dw ...
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Anglo American completes sale of SA coal project
by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG – ANGLO American has completed the sale of its New Largo thermal coal project in South Africa for R850 million (approximately US$65 million). It has b ...
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Africa powers ahead of US on clean coal
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG - THIS week, experts in Washington praised a little-known laboratory in Johannesburg (South Africa) that has pioneered ways of burning coal with le ...
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