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China and India have often been portrayed as predators seeking natural resources all over the world, and their presence across the African continent is especially noticeable now. During the process...
There seems to be little chance that oil giant Shell's plans to prospect for shale gas in the Karoo Basin using the "fracking" method will have an impact on South Africa's bid to host the square...
Oil giant Shell's plans to prospect for shale gas in the Karoo could affect South Africa's bid to build the world's biggest radio telescope, MPs heard on Wednesday.
Science and technology deputy...
As a new wave of democratisation breaks on Africa’s northern shores, the common goals of the Maghreb’s people are hitting up against starkly different types of state. The situation in Libya is...
The decision by the Brazilian government to set a 65% to 75% local-content condition on companies seeking to secure concessional funding from the country’s influential development bank, BNDES,...
South Africa’s energy infrastructure environment is in a serious state of flux. Citizens are all too aware of the crisis with regards electricity. But we are probably less alive to the fact that...
Not surprisingly, energy group Sasol refused to be drawn into the war of words that recently erupted between oil group BP and State utility Transnet over the latter’s application for a 80%-plus...
China has said the "legitimate interests" of foreign countries in
Iraq should be safeguarded, in a likely reference to contracts
Chinese companies signed with the Saddam Hussein regime.