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Harare Bureau AFRICA should embrace inclusive business, a concept that brings together low income people in a value chain, as a means of poverty alleviation while also achieving other millennium…
G20 to focus on growth over austerity
Jobs and growth will be the new focus of the G20 as a meeting of ministers have agreed to move away from the austerity measures championed by member states such…
EU anti-dumping duties put heat on China’s ceramics industry
NANNING — Chinese manufacturers of domestic ceramic products are struggling with anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union in May. Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd, a major ceramics maker in south…
Thousands of jobs at tech firm on line
Cape Town — Between 5 000 and 7 000 jobs are on the line due to the Johannesburg-based First Tech Group having been placed under provisional liquidation. Early in July…
We are still in Marikana: NUM
Marikana — The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) still represents workers at Lonmin, it told workers at a rally in Marikana yesterday. “We are still a majority in the bargaining…
Trayvon Martin’s parents lead rallies in US
Trayvon Martin’s parents have been joined by celebrities, civil rights activists and other protesters as they led rallies in New York and Florida to show their anger at the acquittal…
Fierce ANC succession battle brews
Johannesburg— A fierce succession battle is raging in the ANC, pitting President Jacob Zuma and the party’s deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa’s supporters against each other. According to the Sunday Independent…
4 000 flee new fighting in eastern Congo
Goma — A week of renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east has driven more than 4 000 people to seek refuge in the provincial capital Goma,…
Mandelas in legal aid scam?
East London — Rhodes University Law Clinic this week confirmed that it had regarded some of the Mandela applicants, who took Mandla Mandela to court, as indigent and covered their…
Explosion hits Beijing airport
BEIJING — An explosion occurred Saturday evening at the Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport, police said. A wheelchair-bound man, identified as Ji Zhongxing from east China’s Shandong…