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An oily triangle: Relations between Sudan, South Sudan and China

On 9 January 2011, the Republic of Sudan went to vote in a landmark referendum that would ultimately result in the landslide decision by a largely Christian South Sudan to secede from their...

SARB leaves repo rate unchanged

REPO RATE

The South African Reserve Bank has left the repo rate unchanged at 5,5%, governor Gill Marcus said on Thursday.

Cosatu :Vavi: Address by the Cosatu secretary general, to the KwaZulu Natal Provincial Shop Stewards Council, Polokwane (03/10/2010)

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Date: 03/10/2010
Source: The Congress of South African Trade Unions
Title: Cosatu :Vavi: Address by the Cosatu secretary general, to the KwaZulu Natal Provincial Shop Stewards Council,...

Yen developments may hold lessons as SA considers rand action

REAL ECONOMY: CURRENCY INTERVENTION

It will be interesting for advocates and opponents of calls for aggressive intervention to weaken the rand to monitor developments surrounding the Japanese yen over the coming weeks and months....

Cosatu: Vavi: Address by the Cosatu secretary-general to the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Cape Town (23/09/2010)

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Date: 23/09/2010
Source: Congress of South African Trade Unions
Title: Cosatu: Vavi: Address by the Cosatu secretary-general to the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union,...

AfDB will consider more funding for Eskom – Kaberuka

ELECTRICITY

African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka at the weekend said that the financial institution would consider stumping up further funding to South African power utility Eskom, and...

Cosatu :Vavi: Address by the secretary-general, to the Nedlac Summit, Johannesburg (11/09/2010)

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Date: 11/09/2010
Source: The Congress of South African Trade Unions
Title: Cosatu :Vavi: Address by the secretary-general, to the Nedlac Summit, Johannesburg

Comrade...

SA: Statement by the Presidency, on President Jacob Zuma welcoming letters regarding the media (10/09/2010)

Statements

President Jacob Zuma has welcomed the letters he has received from various media groupings locally and internationally, raising their concerns about the Protection of Information Bill, as well...

Sanef: Letter to the President of South Africa, by the South African National Editors Forum, on media freedom (07/09/2010)

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Mr. President:

Agence France Presse, The Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters welcome your call for debate on media and media freedoms in South Africa.

As international news...

Cosatu: Statement by Patrick Craven, Congress of South African Trade Unions spokesperson, on job statistics (27/07/2010)

Statements

Job stats: a national catastrophe
The news that a further 61 000 jobs were lost in the second quarter of 2010, on top of the 171 000 jobs which disappeared during the first quarter, and the...

Global economic uncertainty grows

GLOBAL ACCOUNT

There is huge uncertainty in global financial markets at present. Bloomberg reported on July 8 that hedge fund managers, who are the best compensated and supposedly smartest investors on Wall...

Forthcoming Visit of Deputy President Motlanthe to Turkey

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Later this month South Africa's Deputy President, Kgalema Motlanthe, is due to lead a delegation of ministers, business people, media representatives and officials to Turkey. While relations...

Gordhan pans opposition to Eskom's World Bank loan

ESKOM FUNDING

South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan would initiate discussions with those developed countries that had indicated their reticence to endorsing a $3,7-billion (about R28-billion) World...

Title: SA: Ntsaluba: Briefing by Director General of International Relations and Cooperation (31/08/2009)

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Source: Department of International Relations and Cooperation
Title: SA: Ntsaluba: Briefing by Director General of International Relations and Cooperation

Thank you. First of...

Sonjica says no intention of quitting politics after 2009 general election

SOUTH AFRICA

Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica will not retire from politics after the general election in April next year, despite the ruling ANC having omitted her from its national executive...

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