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23 May 2013
                       
 
 
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23 Apr 2013
 
 
 
 
Sapref upgrade central to BP’s R5.5bn investment plan for SA, Moz
LIQUID FUELS
Global energy group BP has announced a R5.5-billion, five-year investment plan for South Africa and Mozambique, including a R2.5-billion capital expenditure programme to upgrade the Sapref...
 
 
02 Apr 2013
 
Bowman Gilfillan advises Oryx Energies on SA gas acquisition
BOWMAN GILFILLAN
Bowman Gilfillan, the pan-African legal services group, has advised on the South African leg of a major international transaction that will see Oryx Energies acquire liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)...
 
 
02 Mar 2013
 
SA: Jacob Zuma: Address by the President of South Africa, a on the occasion of the Bongi Ngema-Zuma Foundation’s sponsors dinner promoting the fight against diabetes, Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Gauteng (02/03/2013)
SPEECH
One of our government’s foremost goals is to promote a healthy nation and increase the life expectancy. We have done well with the fight against HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases. We...
 
 
18 Jan 2013
 
Great expectations: Can President Mohamud create a more stable Somalia in 2013?
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
“We are much better than to be called terrorists, better than to be branded as pirates, better than having the largest refugee camps in the world and better than being known as the most failed...
 
 
17 Jan 2013
 
OXFAM: Statement by the Oxfam, International relief and development organization, US member of Congress and Oxfam defend oil and mining transparency law (17/01/2013)
STATEMENT
International relief and development organization Oxfam America and prominent Members of Congress have filed briefs with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in response to...
 
 
09 Jan 2013
 
First donation of BP’s ‘Ads to Bags’ campaign reaches Soweto primary school
EDUCATION & RECYCLING
Through its Ads to Bags campaign, oil giant BP has handed over the first donation of pencil cases, chair bags and school backpacks recycled from its old vinyl advertising billboards to hundreds of...
 
 
04 Dec 2012
 
SA: Statement by Nedbank, financial services provider, invests in the development of thriving Jet Park (04/11/2012)
STATEMENT
Nedbank adds value to the established and thriving commercial area of Jet Park near OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg with a R45 million loan to GRWJET Park Investments (Pty) Limited for the...
 
 
26 Oct 2012
 
Competition Commission refers oil company cartel complaint to Competition Tribunal
WEBBER WENTZEL
The Competition Commission (Commission) has referred a complaint investigation to the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) regarding alleged cartel conduct by six oil companies, as well as the South...
 
 
02 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by the Automobile Association, warns motorists of another petrol price increase (02/10/2012)
STATEMENT
The school holidays began last week Friday, meaning the increase will affect many travellers across the country. The AA urges holiday makers to fill up their tanks before Wednesday’s price hike,...
 
 
Contributory infringement
ADAMS & ADAMS
In a judgement handed down in the matter of Gallagher Group Ltd and Another v I O Tech Manufacturing and Others (96/6799) [2012] ZACCP 1 (8 February 2012) (“Gallagher”), the North Gauteng High...
 
 
13 Jun 2012
 
Compulsory pharma licensing, the Indian case of Natco v Bayer, and the South African Context
Adams & Adams
In March 2012, India’s Controller of Patents granted the country’s first compulsory licence in the case of Natco Pharma Limited v Bayer Corporation. With the crisis of HIV/AIDS and the great...
 
 
18 May 2012
 
Oil companies and their human rights (ir)responsibilities
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
In recent years, gas and oil discoveries have been made on the African continent in countries such as Mozambique,(2) Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda and on prospected fields in Kenya, Mali and Sierra...
 
 
20 Apr 2012
 
Fuel for thought
REAL ECONOMY: LIQUID FUELS
Without question, one of the more maddening energy challenges currently confronting South African policymakers relates to the best timing for the introduction of new oil-refining capacity. In a...
 
 
16 Mar 2012
 
Shifting equation
REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY & POLITICS
Nobody the world over would argue with the notion that energy and politics are inextricably linked. Whether it's the issue of foreign oil and the role it plays in the US and in shaping its military...
 
 
18 Jan 2012
 
Renewables to be fastest-growing energy segment over 20 years - BP
ENERGY OUTLOOK
Fossil fuels will continue to dominate the global energy mix in 2030, oil group BP forecasts in its latest ‘Energy Outlook 2030’, in which it estimates that such primary energy sources should...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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