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La Nina effect not priced into thermal coal companies
A protracted, La Nina-related wet season cut Indonesia’s thermal coal exports (the country is the world’s largest exporter) by 15 percent in 2010 (though the...
Where have investors been placing their bets over the past year?
Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.While the global financial crisis that reared its ugly head in mid-2007...
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Downgrades Harmony Gold (NYSE:HMY)
With very little upward movement from March, Harmony Gold (NYSE:HMY) continues to be looked upon as negative, and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) reflected that with their...
Wal-Mart Offers $4.5 Billion to Buy South African Retailer Massmart (WMT)
Retailer superpower Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ( WMT ) announced Monday that it has offered to buy South Africa-based retailer Massmart Holdings Ltd. for around $4.25...
Gold Fields Targets Annual Production of 1 Million Ounces from South Deep
Gold Fields (NYSE: GFI ), one of the largest unhedged gold producers in the world, is working on plans to increase gold production at its South Deep Mine to 1 million...
Barrick (NYSE:ABX), Newmont (NYSE:NEM) Drive Nevada Mining Costs Lower
Even though gold production in the state of Nevada fell for the first time in ten years, the state remains the sixth-largest gold producer in the world, still led...
Homeschoolers Interrogated by Secret Police, Face Imprisonment
Home School Legal Defense Association | Estimates suggest that only a few hundred children are homeschooled in Botswana, a country of 2 million located just north...
South Africa – an inconvenient truth
By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB. Regarding the public sector strike currently fully underway, a few inconvenient truths may perhaps have escaped the general...
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Is this the destiny of South Africa’s national instrument, the vuvu? Read the original here: Welcome …
Battling the boycotts
The casual observer cannot avoid the impression that Israel has become the world’s whipping boy. Not a day goes by without more news about economic/academic/artistic/athletic...
World Spotlight on South Africa
South Africa takes to the world stage today as it hosts the first World Cup to be played on the African continent. For the next 30 days, the eyes of the globe will...
Is Israel Planning Act of Desperation ?
The signature is always the same: help through airports, high quality documents and timed perfectly to advance the Israeli agenda. This time, with two stolen nuclear...
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