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Is Aid to South Africa Drying Up?

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John Fraser
May 17, 2013 12:28 pm
South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world. It is estimated that nearly 40 percent of the population lives below the pov...

Labour vows to lift trade with Africa as Umunna warns of missed opportunities

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Larry Elliott
May 14, 2013 12:01 am
Shadow business secretary says Nigeria visit revealed potential and warns against focusing solely on Bric nations such as IndiaA future Labo...

Villagers Become ‘Water Scavengers’

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Jeffrey Moyo
April 25, 2013 3:02 pm
For the last 13 years, Trynos Mbweku, the headman of Mwenezi district in southeastern Zimbabwe, has had to use a cart to fetch water from th...

No Money to Fix Rural Zimbabwe’s Taps

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Jeffrey Moyo
April 25, 2013 9:02 am
For the last 13 years, Trynos Mbweku, the headman of Mwenezi district in southeastern Zimbabwe, has had to use a cart to fetch water from th...

Why Blair and Buffett are wrong about giving international aid to Rwanda

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April 12, 2013 6:04 pm
By criticising the UN expert report, the former British prime minister is hampering the peace process in the eastern CongoWhen a UN Group of...

MicroStrategy South Africa to co-host the Mobile Commerce Executive Forum

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Ephraim Batambuze III
April 5, 2013 3:07 pm
MicroStrategy South Africa, a worldwide provider of business intelligence and mobile software, will co-host the Mobile Commerce Executive Fo...

Children Learn Lessons of Commerce on the Streets of Zimbabwe

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Jeffrey Moyo
April 5, 2013 12:02 pm
Susan Sithole* is 14 and should be in grade nine or Form Two, according to Zimbabwe’s education system, learning her lessons in Mathem...

Zimbabwe Struggling to Pay Laid-Off Workers

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Jeffrey Moyo
March 29, 2013 12:01 pm
As former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe employees went to the Labour Court in Harare this week hoping for a ruling in favour of the finalisation ...

Not Yet Banking on BRICS

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John Fraser
March 28, 2013 12:06 pm
Although leaders of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa group agreed to launch a new development funding institution, giving t...

Zimbabwe’s Railroads Riding to Extinction

Jeffrey Moyo
March 25, 2013 9:01 pm
Zimbabwe’s rail transport system may be nearing extinction if the government does not take drastic action to solve the series of operation...

South African police van death: spotlight needed if change is to come | Justice Malala

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Justice Malala
March 1, 2013 9:01 pm
We all know that the culture of police brutality, of guns in the homes of some of us, diminishes all of us. Yet we kept quietSouth Africans ...

The Only Thing Dark about Africa is Your ignorance: Best TED Talks on Africa

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Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
March 1, 2013 12:02 am
Started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED), TED hosts the most popu...

Andrew Rugasira: can coffee transform lives in Africa?

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Tim Adams
February 17, 2013 12:09 am
In 2003, Andrew Rugasira had a vision of empowering farmers in his native Uganda by enabling them to produce and sell coffee direct to Briti...

African Smallholder Farmers Need to Become Virus Detectors

Wambi Michael
February 13, 2013 9:14 am
Unless African smallholder farmers, who comprise the majority of food growers on the continent, are given the tools and knowledge to cope wi...

British sugar giant caught in global tax scandal

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Daniel Boffey
February 10, 2013 12:00 am
Associated British Foods accused of Zambia tax avoidance after sending massive profits abroadOne of Britain's biggest multinationals, whose ...



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