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Gautrain reaches a major milestone
By Nthambeleni Gabara
Derby - The Gautrain has reached a major milestone in its delivery of world-class public transport to South Africa, said Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa on Tuesday.
Mr Shilowa was speaking in Derby, England, shortly after he received the first four-car train set branded in the Gautrain's distinctive golden colour.
"Bearing the pride of the nation, Gautrain has reached a major milestone in its delivery of world-class public transport to South Africa.
Categories: Africa Built Environment
Oxford Road Collapses
By Nthambeleni Gabara
Johannesburg - Measures are being taken to re-open Oxford Road, between North Road and 8th Avenue in Rosebank, after a portion of the road collapsed on Tuesday.
The collapse occurred during drilling for the Gautrain project underneath the road.
Wayne Minnaar, Johannesburg Metro Police Department spokesperson, said the road collapsed, forming a hole measuring about 12 by 8 metres.
He said it was filled with water, making it difficult to determine the depth.
Categories: Africa Built Environment
PE Stadium falls behind schedule - left out of Confederations Cup
By Simangaliso Zwane
Johannesburg - The 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) on Tuesday announced that the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth has been removed from the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup schedule but remains one of the 2010 FIFA World Cup venues.
LOC Chairperson Dr Irvin Khoza told reporters that the LOC Board of Directors took the decision to remove Nelson Mandela Bay from the cup schedule after receiving a report from the technical team.
Categories: Africa Built Environment
Finance Minister Quits Over Hotel Sale
Finance Minister Quits Over Hotel Sale - Kenya’s Finance Minister Amos Kimunya has quit over the controversial sale of a luxury hotel at the centre of Nairobi. [All Africa : Kenya]
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Stop Politicising Hotel Sale Issue
Stop Politicising Hotel Sale Issue - The longer top officials named in the Grand Regency Hotel scandal defy pressure to step aside, the more the issue is likely to take political undertones that are not healthy for the Grand Coalition government. [All Africa : Kenya]
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Jorge Rebelo Speaks On Capitalism And Corruption
Jorge Rebelo Speaks On Capitalism And Corruption - Despite the formal commitment by Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party to "democratic socialism", what currently exists in Mozambique is capitalism, and a rather savage form of capitalism at that, admitted former information minister Jorge Rebelo in a long interview published in Friday's issue of the independent weekly, "Savana". [AA Network News]
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Resurgent Maputo
Resurgent Maputo - MOZAMBIQUE'S OCEAN-fronted capital, Maputo, is emerging as a major tourist destination in the Southern Africa region after picking itself up from the civil war 16 years ago. [AA Network News]
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Australian Company Plans New Coal Mine in Tete By 2010
Australian Company Plans New Coal Mine in Tete By 2010 - The Australian company Riversdale Mining plans to open its first coal mine in the western Mozambican province of Tete by the end of 2010. [AA Network News]
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Gold Mining At Tsiquir Resumes
Gold Mining At Tsiquir Resumes - The government of the central Mozambican province of Sofala has lifted the ban on gold mining at Tsiqiuir, in Gorongosa district, that was decreed in 2004 following a fatal accident. [AA Network News]
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Oil Refinery Planned for South
Oil Refinery Planned for South - If all goes according to plan, by the middle of the next decade there could be two oil refineries operating in Mozambique, one at Nacala in the north of the country, and one in the district of Matutuine, in the far south of the country. [AA Network News]
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Professor Mtonga - Doyen of Traditional Arts, Culture
Professor Mtonga - Doyen of Traditional Arts, Culture - WHEN award-winning playwright Cheela Chilala was being interviewed to take-up a full time appointment at the University of Zambia (UNZA) with a view to taking over the courses that Professor Mapopa Mtonga was running, he was asked whether he was capable of filling his shoes. [All Africa Zambia]
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PDM Announces Construction is Underway at its Housing Developments in Kenya and Zambia
PDM Announces Construction is Underway at its Housing Developments in Kenya and Zambia - Pangaea Development Holdings Limited held its second Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 20 May at the Gaborone Sun Hotel. During the meeting, Mr. Barry Newton, Pangaea's Chairman, announced that house construction and sales were underway at its major housing estate developments in both Kenya and Zambia. [All Africa Zambia]
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Kantolomba - Forgotten Ndola Township
Kantolomba - Forgotten Ndola Township - KANTOLOMBA is a place of many contrasts and contradictions. Like a rocking chair, it is a busy place. Men and women, boys and girls and children alike crowd every corner. [All Africa Zambia]
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Zamfara Govt Approves N12 Billion for Airport
Zamfara Govt Approves N12 Billion for Airport - The Zamfara State Government has approved N12 billion for the construction of an international cargo airport in Gusau. [Nigeria News : All Africa]
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Major Tourism Investments Planned
Major Tourism Investments Planned - The Mozambican government is mobilizing investments in the tourism industry, in the hope that the country can benefit considerably from the large number of tourists who will visit southern Africa in 2010, when the football World Cup is due to be held in South Africa. [AA Network News]
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Slow Arrival of New Buses for Maputo
Slow Arrival of New Buses for Maputo - Very few of the new buses ordered by the Mozambican government to strengthen the capacity of the Maputo public bus company, TPM, have so far arrived in the Mozambican capital, much to the annoyance of TPM, according to a report in Friday's issue of the independent newsheet "Mediafax". [AA Network News]
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Remarks by Ambassador to the U.S. at Africa Society Dinner
Remarks by Ambassador to the U.S. at Africa Society Dinner - The following are the prepared remarks for the speech delivered by Josefina Pitra Diakité, the Ambassador of Angola to the United States, at the Conversation and Dinner with African Ambassadors hosted by the Africa Society in Washington DC on 20 May 2008. [AA Network News]
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Triambiente Invests Over Usd 5 Million to Clean Rangel District
Triambiente Invests Over Usd 5 Million to Clean Rangel District - The public cleaning company Triambiente invested USD 5.3 million to purchase equipment to reinforce operational capacity in Rangel district, the company general director Gonçalves Imperial informed ANGOP. [AA Network News]
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Public Works Minister Announces Rehabilitation of 1,500 Bridges
Public Works Minister Announces Rehabilitation of 1,500 Bridges - Angola's Public Works minister, Higino Carneiro, on Thursday here announced the construction or rebuilding of about 1,500 bridges, as well as the rehabilitation of over 12,000 kilometres of national roads until 2012, ANGOP has learnt. [AA Network News]
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Sh31 Billion Plan to Relocate Homeless in Trouble
Sh31 Billion Plan to Relocate Homeless in Trouble - The Sh31 billion resettlement programme could run into trouble if donors do not release the funds they pledged, a Government policy document says. [All Africa : Kenya]
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