I heard a press report this afternoon that the President of Tansania PRAISED Mugabe for his handling of the elections and praised Mbeki for his diplomacy and mediation in the crisis.
This is ridiculous - at a time when the continent should be standing together against Zimbabwe, we have the dissension in the ranks. Poor form.
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“Why have the names of those bankrolling Zimbabwe’s deranged president, Robert Mugabe, been kept so well under wraps? For one thing, the deals behind the bankrolling are not simple, and for another, the robber barons are pretty smart and can also be pretty damn dangerous. Depending on how you count, there are four or five [...]
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UK (SANEPR.com) June 27, 2008 — In the first months of 2008 Kenya’s travel industry was hit by political turmoil, however one specialist African tour operator is now looking to change the fortunes of Kenya with a campaign that spans both the virtual and the real world.
Acacia Adventure Holidays is launching “Crazy About Kenya,” a [...]
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South Africa (SANEPR.com) June 24, 2008 — This specialised credit and risk training programme will be held on the 28-30 July 2008 in Nairobi and follows on from the highly successful Risk Management Best Practices Seminar that was delivered to the member banks.
The Collections Management Best Practices Seminar is a three day programme providing delegates [...]
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Accompanied by guys from The Red Cross, Rescue South Africa and the head of CSI from Investec we started off at Wadeville Camp near Germiston where around 300 tents have been pitched.
As I sit down to write this I have very mixed emotions. If I write about what a great job the guys from Gauteng [...]
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Has Morgan Tsvangirai finally come to the conclusion that he cannot win a fair fight against Mugabe? Or has he simply lost the will to fight.
The decision to pull out of the run off seems to me that he has lost the will to fight. By seeing it through to the end, irrespsective of the [...]
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An African-developed product, designed specifically with the continent’s rugged conditions in mind, has been a lifeline for Zimbabweans craving news from the outside world. Less than 30 seconds of ‘personal power’ on the winding handle of a Freeplay wind-up radio delivers an hour of medium-volume broadcast.
So successful has the radio been in delivering external news [...]
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Indeed a great way to stimulate trade in South Africa is to have your postal service black listed by one of the major global retailers.
Poor showing by the SA Post Office to have themselves blacklisted by Amazon for the high levels of the theft in their operations - as is being reported in local media [...]
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In 2007 ManufacturingHub.co.za launched a low key industrial report assessing the South African Food, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Cosmetic Manufacturing industries. Following on the success of this initial report ManufacturingHub.co.za will be developing an updated 2008 report.
Read the complete article here.
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Zimbabwe (SANEPR.com) June 17, 2008 –
With inflation souring high very month, most Zimbabweans are now leaving under the poverty datum line. Zimbabwe supermarkets are empty and most food stuffs are now being imported from South Africa and Botswana. This has opened up new, unique opportunities for Zimbabwean entrepreneurs. In the field of e-commerce the champions [...]
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