Minister Davies emphasised that South Africa’s participation at the Trade and Investment Ministerial Meeting was to contribute to and shape global trade and investment policy debates by providing views from a developing country standpoint PRETORIA, South Africa, September 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr
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Mr Zondi brings along extensive experience in the field having worked as a journalist and also having occupied positions as spokesperson for the Ministries of Labour and Police and in the private sector PRETORIA, South Africa, September 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Read MoreThe meeting in Pretoria was a preparatory dialogue ahead of the forthcoming Jobs Summit and Investment Conference CAPE TOWN, South Africa, September 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- President Cyril Ramaphosa has shared with South Africa’s business and labour leaders an outline of the economic stimulus package adopted by Cabinet to
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Insurance has been called the “ugly duckling” of the financial services industry. Nobody seems to understand what it is about. We seem to have sat in one meeting and agreed that insurers are “thieves”. I have come across many people who think third party liability for motorised vehicles is a
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The Appointments Committee of Parliament is set to decide the fate of Justine Bagyenda’ reappointment to the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) Board, Business Focus has learnt. The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija in May this year nominated Bagyenda (in featured photo), the former Executive Director-Supervision at
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The United States is concerned that increased currency swap agreements between China and African nations will reduce visibility into financial transactions and will make it harder to prevent money laundering, a senior U.S. sanctions official said on Thursday. Marshall Billingslea, the U.S. Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing, told
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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace agreement in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the second peace deal reached since July between the once warring African countries. The Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders signed a “joint declaration of peace and friendship” on July 9, normalizing ties
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More than $16m (£12m) in cash and luxury watches were seized at an airport in Brazil in the luggage of a delegation accompanying the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, local media has reported. Teodorin Nguema Obiang, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and son of its longtime president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema,
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President Yoweri Museveni has revealed how he is pained at the uncessaey deaths of Ugandans. During a national briefing on the security situation in the country on Saturday, Museveni said: “I am annoyed and pained by these unnecessary deaths of Ugandans; but I am confident because we have the capacity
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The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) will spend over over Shs207bn on the construction of Rukungiri-Kihihi-Ishasha-Kanungu road. A leaked letter authored by Christopher Gashirabake Director Legal, Advisory Services Ministry of Justice advised UNRA to sign the contract with China Henan International Corporation Group. In his 14th September 2018 letter to
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