South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan met with top business leaders on January 29 to discuss steps to boost investor sentiment and avert a credit rating downgrade to junk. About 60 chief executive officers representing industries ranging from banking to mining met with Gordhan for two-and-a-half hours at Nedbank’s offices in Johannesburg, Jabu Mabuza, chairman of … [Read more...] about SA economy: Gordhan holds talks with CEOs
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Why Kampala holds single biggest growth opportunity for Uganda | The Conversation
Traffic jams in major African cities such as Lagos, pictured here, as well as Uganda's Kampala, are a major drain on productivity. Reuters/Akintunde AkinleyeUganda’s economy has been growing steadily over the past decade. Like many other developing countries, its growth has benefited from a confluence of external events, including a sustained increase in commodity prices … [Read more...] about Why Kampala holds single biggest growth opportunity for Uganda | The Conversation
Gautrain – What The Future Holds
A few years ago if you wanted to live in Pretoria and commute to JHB for work every morning it meant enduring at least an hour and a half of bumper to bumper traffic between Midrand and Rivonia. We never possibly conceived the citizens of our city would one day commute like the citizens of […] The post Gautrain – What The Future Holds appeared first on The … [Read more...] about Gautrain – What The Future Holds
Gang holds up staff at JHB children’s home
Staff at the Ethembeni Children’s Home in Johannesburg are traumatised following an armed robbery last week that saw a gang make off with valuable items. Read the full article by here: Articles relating to Places | johannesburg Submit and get free press releases here: MyPR Free Press Release. Click HERE to submit your Johannesburg news. MyJHB Read more on MyJHB. Join … [Read more...] about Gang holds up staff at JHB children’s home
April 27, 1994: South Africa Holds Its First Free Election After the End of Apartheid
Millions of South Africans lined up to vote in the country’s first multiracial democratic elections in 1994. The Nation fiercely opposed apartheid from the beginning, with an article by a South African journalist using the pseudonym John Porter, published in November 1948, just after Nationalists won election promising complete segregation of the races. Read the full … [Read more...] about April 27, 1994: South Africa Holds Its First Free Election After the End of Apartheid
