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South Africa
French-style Empowerment

French firms in South Africa are not the most stubborn foreign investors in black economic empowerment. [...]

Published on 18/07/2003 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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South Africa
STEP TOWARDS RESTRUCTURATION

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Spotlight | Guinea, Togo
THE BIG MINE SELL-OFF

The die is cast for Togo's phosphates and Guinea's march towards privatizing its bauxite sector will quickly follow suite. These are the only notable industries in the two countries. Togo is the world's fifth-ranking phosphate exporter (2.

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Zimbabwe
ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

The Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority (ZESA) last week unveiled a 20-year, $2.8 billion plan to build up its electricity network. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.1996

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa
RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank which is deeply involved with the country's mining houses and in South African investments in mining and other sectors in black Africa has just created a made-to-measure affiliate to encourage emerging projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

Africa
EDF'S PRAGMATIC TOUCH

There's no single reply to questions regarding the structures of the electricity sector in one country or another and "a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.1995

Southern Africa
GO WEST YOUNG MAN

Australia's trade minister Bob McMullan is due to visit Mauritius, South Africa and Zimbabwe from March 23 to 31 at [...]

Subscribers only 25.03.1995

France
FOCUS ON ELECTRICITY IN 1994

The Caisse Francaise de Developpement (CFD) and its affiliate for the private sector, Proparco, put up loans worth a total [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

South Africa
ADB CONFERENCE

As South Africa prepares to take its seat with the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.09.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
STORAGE SPACE TO LEASE

The South African government has decided to reduce the country's strategic stocks to the equivalent of just six months of consumption and to allow the State Fuel Fund (SFF), set up in the 1960's to manage the reserves, to rent [.

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.1994

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Times are going to be very hard. With the arrival in East Africa of South African outsiders, of Chinese firms with price dumping in public works sectors, of Japanese companies' renewed aggressiveness in several sectors (telecommunications, electricity distribution, road construction), [.

Subscribers only 26.03.1994

South Africa
BLACK BUSINESS MAY BE BIG BUSINESS

The French government has established preliminary contacts with a South African parastatal, Industrial Development Corporation, with a view to obtaining [...]

Subscribers only 05.03.1994

Spotlight | Southern Africa
SOUTHERN AFRICAN MINING: EUROPE STEPS SOFTLY

European Commission sources have told AEM that a Southern African mining forum which the Commission's development department (DG-8) has been planning for over a year will not be staged until the end of this year.

Subscribers only Energy 02.03.1994

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

The World Bank was expected on Jan. 18 to give a green light to a $90 million loan to the Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority for its Power III project. The programme will get underway in step with the institutional Zesa [.

Subscribers only Energy 19.01.1994

South Africa
SCAIME INTERESTED IN ALUSAF

A French company named SCAIME, which is based at Annemasse in the French alps and manufactures weight, movement and pressure [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.12.1993

South Africa, Zimbabwe
EIB LOAN CONFIRMED FOR INTERCONNECTION

The European Investment Bank signed a contract with the Zimbabwe [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.11.1993

Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

For nearly 10 years Eskom chief Ian McRay has been championing the idea of an interconnection between Southern Africa's electricity grids and he seized the occasion of a conference staged on Oct. 14-15 by the Brussels Club on the theme [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.1993

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

The Zesa Reform Programme (ZRP) that has begun under the aegis of the World Bank looks like leading to a major restructuring or even ultimately to what would be at least a partial privatization of Zimbabwe's electricity sector.

Subscribers only Energy 21.09.1993

Spotlight | South Africa
GATT TALK

The first GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) Council meeting on South Africa was held in Geneva at the beginning of June, and the delegates present deplored the instability, complexity and lack of transparency in South Africa's trade policy, [.

Subscribers only 19.06.1993

South Africa
WORLD BANK: ART OF THE POSSIBLE

The question of whether South African companies obtain loans from World Bank institutions depends on constitutional changes occurring to allow [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.12.1992

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STEP TOWARDS RESTRUCTURATION

Spotlight | Guinea, Togo
THE BIG MINE SELL-OFF

Zimbabwe
ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa
RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

Africa
EDF'S PRAGMATIC TOUCH

Southern Africa
GO WEST YOUNG MAN

France
FOCUS ON ELECTRICITY IN 1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

South Africa
ADB CONFERENCE

Spotlight | South Africa
STORAGE SPACE TO LEASE

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

South Africa
BLACK BUSINESS MAY BE BIG BUSINESS

Spotlight | Southern Africa
SOUTHERN AFRICAN MINING: EUROPE STEPS SOFTLY

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

South Africa
SCAIME INTERESTED IN ALUSAF

South Africa, Zimbabwe
EIB LOAN CONFIRMED FOR INTERCONNECTION

Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

Spotlight | South Africa
GATT TALK

South Africa
WORLD BANK: ART OF THE POSSIBLE

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South Africa STEP TOWARDS RESTRUCTURATION

Spotlight | Guinea, Togo THE BIG MINE SELL-OFF

Zimbabwe ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

Africa EDF'S PRAGMATIC TOUCH

Southern Africa GO WEST YOUNG MAN

France FOCUS ON ELECTRICITY IN 1994

Spotlight | South Africa ENERGY WEEK

South Africa ADB CONFERENCE

Spotlight | South Africa STORAGE SPACE TO LEASE

Spotlight | East Africa THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

South Africa BLACK BUSINESS MAY BE BIG BUSINESS

Spotlight | Southern Africa SOUTHERN AFRICAN MINING: EUROPE STEPS SOFTLY

Spotlight | Zimbabwe POWER III UNDERWAY

South Africa SCAIME INTERESTED IN ALUSAF

South Africa, Zimbabwe EIB LOAN CONFIRMED FOR INTERCONNECTION

Spotlight | Southern Africa ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

Spotlight | Zimbabwe SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

Spotlight | South Africa GATT TALK

South Africa WORLD BANK: ART OF THE POSSIBLE

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Africa Intelligence on social media

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Nigeria
The latest secrets of a $10bn legal scandal between Abuja and London

Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

South Africa
French-style Empowerment

South Africa
STEP TOWARDS RESTRUCTURATION

Spotlight | Guinea, Togo
THE BIG MINE SELL-OFF

Zimbabwe
ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa
RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

Africa
EDF'S PRAGMATIC TOUCH

Southern Africa
GO WEST YOUNG MAN

France
FOCUS ON ELECTRICITY IN 1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

South Africa
ADB CONFERENCE

Spotlight | South Africa
STORAGE SPACE TO LEASE

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

South Africa
BLACK BUSINESS MAY BE BIG BUSINESS

Spotlight | Southern Africa
SOUTHERN AFRICAN MINING: EUROPE STEPS SOFTLY

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

South Africa
SCAIME INTERESTED IN ALUSAF

South Africa, Zimbabwe
EIB LOAN CONFIRMED FOR INTERCONNECTION

Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

Spotlight | South Africa
GATT TALK

South Africa
WORLD BANK: ART OF THE POSSIBLE