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Saturday, 19 March 2011 06:57 |
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- South African Airways (SAA), Africa's most awarded airline, announced a "March Madness" sale to many of its great African destinations. The "March Madness" airfare sale starts at $1,129*, including fuel surcharges for flights from New York or Washington D.C. to Johannesburg or Cape Town in South Africa and Dakar, Senegal.
The "March Madness" sale is also available to Nairobi, Kenya; Windhoek, Namibia; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Entebbe, Uganda; Durban, South Africa and the beautiful Indian Ocean country of Mauritius.
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Saturday, 19 March 2011 06:40 |
By Chris Bathembu
Pretoria - Business leaders attending President Jacob Zuma's business summit on job creation were optimistic on Friday that the meeting may provide some kind of indication on how government planned to work with the private sector to meet its job creation targets.
Zuma opened the summit in Pretoria by urging captains of industry to help government find solutions to the unemployment challenge facing the country. It is expected to thrash out details of how government will work with the private sector to create jobs.
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Monday, 14 March 2011 07:55 |
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SAN DIEGO, CA, -- Construction Digital, the top digital media source for global construction news and information, investigates the top projects shaping the emerging markets in South Africa, from the Portside Tower in Cape Town--the first skyscraper built since apartheid ended--to the Gautrain, the rapid transit rail designed to move people faster and more efficiently to and from Johannesburg.
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Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:46 |
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The United Nations fund tasked with combating rural poverty has extended a $90 million loan to Tanzania to strengthen access to rural financial services and markets, and promote private sector development in the East African country, the agency announced today.
The loan agreement between the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Tanzanian Government was signed on 25 February in Rome, where the fund is based, by Kanayo F. Nwanze, the IFAD President, and Mustafa Mkulo, the country’s Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs.
The loan, which will finance the Marketing Infrastructure, Value Addition and Rural Finance Support Programme, will be extended to the country on highly concessional terms, IFAD reported.
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Friday, 11 March 2011 06:37 |
Tunis - The Chief Economist and Vice-president, Mthuli Ncube, on Wednesday, 9 March 2011, launched the Bank’s inaugural Thought Leadership Seminar on one of the most critical challenges for accelerating African development: “boosting the growth of MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises). This initiative is part of the Bank’s knowledge-sharing program and opens a path for innovative thinking.
The major contribution of MSMEs to economic development was addressed by three experts from Mc Kinsey: Edoardo Ginevra , Marc Beaujean and Tony Goland. They highlighted the main barriers and possible intervention areas by financing institutions in this crucial sector of the African informal and formal economy.
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