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25 May 2013
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Repo rate held steady at 5%
ECONOMY
South Africa's Reserve Bank left its repo rate unchanged as expected at 5% on Thursday, citing concerns about the inflationary impact of a lower rand exchange rate against a weakening economic...
 
 
M23 rebels announce ceasefire for UN chief's Congo visit
ceasefire
Rebels in eastern Congo announced a ceasefire on Thursday in fighting with government troops hours before a visit to the conflict-plagued zone by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...
 
 
Biodiversity guideline a ‘step in the right direction’ – panel
MINING & THE ENVIRONMENT
The latest environmental guideline report aimed at the mining industry has been welcomed as a first step in starting the process of finding the delicate balance between mining economically and...
 
 
Side-stream beneficiation needs more recognition
BENEFICIATION
Side-stream beneficiation required more recognition in South Africa, with much of the focus having been on defining downstream beneficiation, Chamber of Mines (CoM) senior executive Roger Baxter...
 
 
Stellenbosch introduces dual language medium for engineering students
EDUCATION
Undergraduate engineering students from the Stellenbosch University (SU) will, from 2014, have the opportunity to listen to their lectures in both English and Afrikaans by means of parallel...
 
 
 
 
Motlatsi proposes new migrant labour deal
LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENT
Mining union pioneer Dr James Motlatsi on Thursday proposed a new deal for South Africa's migrant mine workers. Speaking to Mining Weekly Online in a video interview, the founding president of the...
 
 
ID cards roll-out in July
HOME AFFAIRS
Green, bar-coded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. "We will begin with the issuing of the cards to new...
 
 
Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
CRACKDOWN
For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly...
 
 
 
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