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  • » Busa: 'We'll be losers' 23 Jul 2008 17:51 GMT
    ... concerned about the potential impact on the South African economy of the current proposals on the ... current proposals on the table in the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations at the World ... poverty alleviation for millions of people in South Africa and elsewhere in the developing world," Busa ...

  • Fundamental Failures 23 Jul 2008 16:18 GMT
    ... South Africa confronts many struggles: Unemployment is high, crime ... the African National Congress refused to re-elect South African President Thabo Mbeki as their president. Furthermore, ... the UN, and as a result, native South Africans are forced to compete with refugees for ...

  • SA business and labour united in opposition to further industrial liberalisation 23 Jul 2008 16:16 GMT
    ... Business Unity South Africa (Busa) has added its voice to that ... in rejecting the current proposals for further non-agricultural market access (Nama) liberalisation, which have been ... on certain key, labour-intensive sectors in the South African economy. Busa supported the view that agricultural ...

  • » Could SA be baking a recession omelette? 23 Jul 2008 15:52 GMT
    ... Could South Africa, along with a growing list of other ... have been a rich one, as an agricultural windfall started arriving. But the world didn’t ... their fixed investment intentions, while becoming overstocked. Employment started to be cut, going by business ...

  • » 'WTO will destroy SA' 23 Jul 2008 12:17 GMT
    ... South Africa is being asked to sacrifice its industrial ... to Ebrahim Patel of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) who is at the ... "South Africa is offered very little on agriculture, but we are asked to sacrifice our ...

  • Busa: 'We'll be losers' 23 Jul 2008 12:17 GMT
    ... concerned about the potential impact on the South African economy of the current proposals on the ... current proposals on the table in the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations at the World ... poverty alleviation for millions of people in South Africa and elsewhere in the developing world," Busa ...

  • Vavi's response to the SAHRC's demand for an apology 23 Jul 2008 10:55 GMT
    ... 2008 Statement by Zwelinzima Vavi to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), July 22 2008 ... farm workers and recently of foreigners by South Africans. I admire this work and COSATU has ... to realise a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. Yet, the democratic breakthrough in 1994 has ...

  • Trade: Clash on NAMA on the cards as NAMA-11 attacks text by Martin Khor 23 Jul 2008 09:30 GMT
    ... have strongly criticized the latest text on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) during the open informal ... Round, said There is no indication that South Africa farmers will obtain any new market access ... to justify in a country with 23-26% unemployment. "At outcome cannot be at the expense ...

  • EU presses Mugabe on power-sharing 23 Jul 2008 07:08 GMT
    ... talks with its chief rival mediated by South Africa. Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met ... today at an undisclosed location around the South African capital Johannesburg. Analysts said growing international pressure ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-owned commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One-third ...

  • History will compliment UPA: PM 23 Jul 2008 06:31 GMT
    ... without hurting the rate of growth and employment. (ii) To revitalize agriculture. We have decisively reversed the declining trend ... UK, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa. We are Forging new partnerships with countries ...

  • Uplifting the North must be a policy priority 23 Jul 2008 05:49 GMT
    ... from say Kenya or Ivory Coast or South Africa where those who dominate the private sector ... geography can participate in wealth creation and employment. This is also why Tanzania remains stable ... abolition of boarding school, the privatization of agricultural extension services and removal of input subsidies ...

  • - E.U.: Toughen sanctions against Mugabe 23 Jul 2008 05:26 GMT
    ... Blacklist expands to others; foreign ministers agree on travel ... secret location, said Mukoni Ratshitanga, spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki who is mediating. The ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-own commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One ...

  • Nigeria Doesn't Recognise Mugabe's Election, Says Yar'Adua 23 Jul 2008 04:54 GMT
    ... to talks yesterday until mediator Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's President, has addressed some concerns. Sources in ... food and other commodities, and extremely high unemployment. Mugabe blames the crisis on economic sabotage ... revenge for the government's seizure of white-owned farms for blacks. Critics say Mbeki's mediation efforts have made ...

  • South Africa: Cape Farmers Expect the Unexpected 23 Jul 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... tourists who come to this part of South Africa to enjoy its famous Table Mountain and ... the measure. According to Statistics South Africa, farms in the Western Cape employ 25 percent ... have the skills to farm successfully. The South African government has been criticised for not helping ...

  • Zimbabwe: Nigeria Doesn't Recognise Mugabe's Election, Says Yar'Adua 23 Jul 2008 04:49 GMT
    ... to talks yesterday until mediator Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's President, has addressed some concerns. Sources in ... food and other commodities, and extremely high unemployment. Mugabe blames the crisis on economic sabotage ... revenge for the government's seizure of white-owned farms for blacks. Critics say Mbeki's mediation efforts have made ...

  • The List: The World's Worst Advisors 23 Jul 2008 04:49 GMT
    ... Local newspapers said that she had “reduced South Africa to an international joke.” Her response? South ... Shortly after the beet root incident, the South African government pushed Tshabalala-Msimang aside, and the country’s ... AIDS policy has improved. Still, nearly 1,000 South Africans die each day from the deadly virus. ...

  • EU toughens sanctions against Zimbabwe's Mugabe 22 Jul 2008 22:31 GMT
    ... Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed Monday to formal ... secret location, said Mukoni Ratshitanga, spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki who is mediating. The ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-own commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One ...

  • Zimbabwe president under pressure to share power 22 Jul 2008 20:32 GMT
    ... talks with its chief rival mediated by South Africa. Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met ... Wednesday at an undisclosed location around the South African capital Johannesburg. Analysts said growing international pressure ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-owned commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One ...

  • West turns up pressure on Zimbabwe's Mugabe to share power with the opposition 22 Jul 2008 20:07 GMT
    ... talks with its chief rival mediated by South Africa. President Robert Mugabe, left greets South African President Thabo Mbeki, right at the signing ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-owned commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One ...

  • The PM's speech which he could not deliver. 22 Jul 2008 19:27 GMT
    ... without hurting the rate of growth and employment. (ii) To revitalize agriculture. We have decisively reversed the declining trend ... UK, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa. We are Forging new partnerships with countries ...

  • Zimbabwe president under pressure to share power 22 Jul 2008 19:26 GMT
    ... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Europe turned up pressure on ... Wednesday at an undisclosed location around the South African capital Johannesburg. Analysts said growing international pressure ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-owned commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One ...

  • Zimbabwe president under pressure to share power 22 Jul 2008 19:05 GMT
    ... in ruins. Mugabe's seizures of white-owned commercial farms have destroyed the former food-exporting nation. One third ... food aid and some 80 percent are unemployed. There are chronic shortages of fuel, medicine ... negotiators had not yet left Zimbabwe for South Africa. It was not immediately possible to confirm ...

  • Advani called me nikamma PM: Read PM's Complete Speech 22 Jul 2008 18:31 GMT
    ... without hurting the rate of growth and employment. (2) To revitalize agriculture. We have decisively reversed the declining trend ... UK, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa. We are Forging new partnerships with countries ...

  • Zimbabwe President, opposition leader... 22 Jul 2008 18:19 GMT
    ... Talks will begin Thursday in Pretoria, the South African capital, but will not include either leader, ... Tsvangirai a limp handshake. Also present was South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, the mediator. Shrugging off ... ruling ZANU-PF party to violently invade the farms. Despite Mugabe's claim of seizing the farms ...

  • Inflation and the Specter of World Revolution 22 Jul 2008 18:17 GMT
    ... at the workplace and related issues of unemployment and deteriorating work conditions as the detonator ... occurred from Egypt through Sub-Saharan Africa to South Africa. In the Caribbean, Central and South America, ... in hoarding and black market activity. While agricultural production has increased, the growth of non-food ...


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