In addition to the families of Mahatma Gandhi, or of Fatima Meer or Yusuf Cachalia, many other South Africans of Indian origin have made a name for themselves in the new South Africa.
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Trade negotiations over rice and tea under way between Kenya and Pakistan are continuing, with the Pakistan Minister of Trade Humayun Akhtar Khan going to Nairobi...
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The Tanzanian government is to hold a meeting of all its ambassadors on post in Asia at a seminar to [...]
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Colonel Pierre Paquet, security director of the legislative assembly of Quebec, is currently in Antananarivo on a mission to reorganise [...]
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Assoumani Azali, President of the Union of the Comoros, left Moroni on 22 February to go to Washington at the [...]
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It's not only to help them set up a factory for making gunpowder from cotton...
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The First Lady and President Kibaki's illegitimate wife have both built up rival networks of contacts in the country's political and economic circles.
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The frequent trips abroad by minister Mukhisa Kituyi have upset the top civil servants in his Ministry of Trade and Industry.
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The new President Armando Guebuza wants to impose a new style on the government and speed up settling the backlog of affairs.
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After trying several manoeuvres against the chairman of the General Council, his opponents have finally managed to undermine his slim majority.
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In just a few months Bulenani Ngcuka, the former head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), has broken remarkably into [...]
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The latest joke doing the rounds in Harare business circles is that the governor of the central bank thinks he's a Prime Minister.
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The World Bank and the International Monetery Fund have obtained for the salaries and pensions of Malagasy soldiers to be paid directly by the finance rather than the defence ministry.
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A British firm, also present in Madagascar, has linked with Rolls-Royce to build a bio-diesel refinery in Durban.
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The British trade and development agency has started awarding contracts to support Sudanese institutions.
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The former judge Saad Ahmed Cheik who made his fortune as a freight transit operator, has just created two new transport companies in quick succession.
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The governor of the Central Bank of the Comoros is implicated in the trial of some of the bank's former agents accused of embezzling funds.
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After a delay of many months (ION 1078), the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has finally found an [...]
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The firm Inframac, the agency in Mauritius for Citroën, Peugeot, Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Jaguar cars, and which is owned by [...]
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Barclays Maurice has consolidated its position in the top three commercial banks in Mauritius, behind Mauritius Commercial Bank and SBM [...]
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In deciding recently to open the Madagascan skies to completion in order to revive the tourist industry, the government in [...]
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Jacques Baud, a well-known Swiss intelligence expert, is tipped to head the intelligence unit on Sudan that the United Nations [...]
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François Caillé, the man at the top of the island's number three company was elected on 23 February chairman of [...]
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Geoffrey Qhena, the new managing director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is a technocrat. He was appointed to replace [...]
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A young woman of 40, of German descent, has taken over from Henri Roger at the post of chairperson of [...]
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The effective start of the foundation set up by the [...]
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Rwanda reproaches Uganda of being the only country in East [...]
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Fisticuffs among the Muslim dignitaries
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The decision by the chairman of the Parti Djiboutien pour [...]
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Mamy Rabe, the chairman of the Madagascar United States Business [...]
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After launching the weekly magazine Hebdo de Madagascar in partnership [...]
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The Kansai Mining Corporation has begun its annual programme to [...]
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Whereas the hotels in the Lonrho Africa group turned a [...]
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The firm Gold Fields has decided not to exercise its [...]
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Boaz Kidiga Mbaya, the Kenyan ambassador to Ethiopia and the [...]
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The Comité du Tourisme de Mayotte (CTM) has a new [...]
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The National Nuclear Regulator has a new CEO in the [...]
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The reverend Santosh Marray of Guyana has been elected Bishop [...]
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