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General Business / Trade:
The Economic Community of West African States agreed to design a comprehensive trade policy and decision making mechanism for Liberia. Zimbabwe has licensed some shops to sell goods in foreign currency as it grapples with a burgeoning black market in basic commodities. In terms of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement negotiated recently between the European Union and Ghana, Ghana is to ensure that all timber exports to the EU comply with the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has announced new rules and regulations covering the importation, registration and marketing of food, drugs and cosmetics. Mozambique, with assistance from the Dutch Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI), is to start exporting to the Netherlands in October 2008.
Paradise International Investment (China) is to invest US$ 1.5 billion in Lake Victoria Free Trade Zone, to be known as Ssesamirembe Eco-City, in Uganda. Railroad Development Corporation has announced the sale of its interest in the Nacala Corridor to Mozambican investor group INSITEC. Kenya Airways is to launch flights to Congo Brazzaville following the signing of an agreement between the two countries.
Mining:
The drop in mineral and metal prices has, so far, not impacted mining development projects in Africa. Implats is in discussions with Mvelaphanda Resources and Northam Platinum to create a South African controlled platinum champion. Wesizwe announced its intention to acquire Anglo Platinum's entire 37% stake in the Western Bushveld Joint Venture. Emerging precious metals exploration and mining company Platfields Limited plans to list on the JSE Limited before the end of 2008. PMI Gold restructured its board of directors in anticipation of its Kubi Gold Project in Ghana starting production. Liberia's government disqualified South African-based Delta Mining Consolidated and India's Tata Steel from participating in a relaunched bidding round for a US$ 1.5 billion iron ore project. SearchGold Resources acquired a third exploration permit for gold in Burkina Faso. Rockwell Diamonds recovered an exceptional 189.6 carat gemstone diamond from its Klipdam operation, South Africa.
MBendi's Mining News provides new press releases for:
- African Aura Resources (Cameroon)
- African Copper (Botswana)
- Aquarius Platinum (South Africa)
- Atomic Minerals (Tanzania)
- Avion Resources (gold: Segala and Tabakoto, Mali)
- BRC DiamondCore (South Africa)
- Etruscan Diamonds Ltd (South Africa)
- Gemfields Resources (Tanzania)
- Kalahari Minerals (Namibia)
- Keegan Resources (Ghana)
- Kiwara (Zambia)
- Lakota Resources (Tanzania)
- Midlands Minerals (gold: Sian and Praso, Ghana)
- Mvela Resources (South Africa)
- Nevsun Resources (Eritrea)
- Platinum Group Metals (South Africa)
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- Rio Tinto (Guinea and South Africa)
- Riversdale Mining (coal: Benga, Tete, Mozambique)
- Rockwell Diamonds Inc (South Africa)
- SearchGold Resources (Gabon) Rio Tinto (Guinea)
- Semafo (Burkina Faso)
- Simmer & Jack Mines (South Africa)
- Sunridge Gold Corp (Eritrea)
- Tanzanian Royalty Exploration (Tanzania)
- Tawana (South Africa)
- Tiger Resources (copper: Kipoi, DRC)
- Tiomin Resources (Kenya)
- U Mining Resources (Guinea)
- Uranium Hunter Corporation (Tanzania)
- VIPR Industries (Tanzania)
- Wesizwe (South Africa)
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Oil and Chemicals:
African oil producers are all suffering from the low crude oil price, but African oil importing nations have welcomed the relief. In the downstream sector, Chevron has opened its R 107 million wastewater treatment plant at its South African refinery. Sasol selected a coalfield in South Africa's Limpopo province as part of its prefeasibility study for the proposed Mafutha coal-to-liquids project.
Moving upstream, SOCO Exploration and Production Congo entered into a farm-in agreement to acquire a 29.4% working interest in the Marine XIV Block, offshore the Republic of Congo. Tullow Oil plc has announced an oil discovery at the Kigogole-1 exploration well in the Butiaba region of Block 2, Uganda. Benchmark Energy completed the sale of its 31.67% net interest in the offshore Cosmos concession in Tunisia to a subsidiary of Storm Ventures International. Royal Dutch Shell extended the force majeure on Nigerian Bonny Light crude exports due to security concerns. RWE Dea made a new gas discovery in the Egyptian Nile Delta and further discoveries in the Libyan Sirte Basin. Total signed an agreement with Madagascar Oil to farm into the Bemolanga license with a 60% interest.
MBendi's Oil and Energy News provides recent press releases for the following companies:
- Candax Energy (Madagascar)
- Circle Oil (Namibia and Tunisia)
- Dominion Oil and Gas (Tanzania)
- Eni (Algeria)
- Firstdrill (Namibia)
- Gulf Keystone Petroleum (Algeria)
- Heritage Oil (Tanzania)
- Mart Resources / Network Exploration and Production (Qua Ibo, Nigeria)
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- Maurel & Prom (Tanzania)
- Ophir Energy (Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)
- Rocksource (Senegal and Guinea-Bissau)
- Sasol (South Africa)
- TSMarine (Lagos, Nigeria)
- Universal Power (Namibia)
- Volta Resources (Ghana)
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Electrical Power / Telecoms:
South Africa's electricity consumed during the three months ending July 2008 decreased by 1,8% compared with the same three months of 2007. South Africa's Eskom is seeking statements of qualification from both national and international companies that want to invest in the country as independent base load power producers. Eskom secured a Euro 250 million export credit financing loan from Germany's KfW-IPEX to fund part of its capital expenditure. Eskom has begun a new round of planned maintenance on its South African power stations which could lead to blackouts. Eskom released 223,6 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2007. The Coega Industrial Development Zone is seeking to appoint an adviser to assist in the construction and operation of a gas-fired power station.
Elsewhere in Africa's electrical sector, Nigeria has commenced the N 19.2 billion Zamfara hydro power plant project. Citizens of the Cusse commune, east of Caconda district in Angola are benefiting from new systems for water and electricity.
Other Projects:
The Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) funded a 1.3 km major stormwater system in the Majaneng area of South Africa. Pretoria Portland Cement has released a final environmental impact report for a new R 4+ billion cement plant. There are plans for the construction of a railway line linking Botswana and Namibia via the Kalahari in order to export coal from the mine at Mmamabula. Sudan and Uganda are planning a railway linking Gulu, Nimule, Juba and Wau. European planemaker Airbus is to open a new plant in Tunisia.
Finance:
The World Bank approved $US 35 million in additional funding to support the Household Energy and Universal Access Project in Mali and a $US 15 million credit for the Second Environment Management Capacity Building Project in Uganda. The European Union made a grant of Euro 840 million to Nigeria for infrastructure development as part of gaining access for European companies to Nigeria's oil and gas sector. IFAD approved more than US$ 177.41 million in loans and US$ 60.235 million in grants for twelve programmes and projects to improve the lives of the rural poor in developing countries. Japan granted Kenya Kshs 440 million for the Grant Assistance for Underprivileged Farmers Scheme. Registered MBendi users can request an African finance spreadsheet from our website.
African Statistics:
Trade between China and Africa is forecast to surpass the US$ 100 billion mark this year. South Africa's 2Q2008 gold production increased 9% to 56,933 kg compared to 1Q2008. Income for the South African accommodation industry increased by 33,5% in 2Q2008 compared to 2Q2007. South Africa's 2Q2008 GDP was 4.9%, compared to 2.1% in 1Q2008. In the first seven months of 2008, South African manufacturing production increased by 3,4% compared with the same period in 2007.
We publish a monthly page of African Exchange Rates.
Politics:
Zimbabwe's political parties signed a power-sharing agreement formalising the establishment of a government of national unity; however implementation could be fraught with problems. Elections in Angola and Rwanda went off peacefully. A presidential election is planned in Zambia. South Africa's high court upheld an appeal by aspirant president Jacob Zuma, leading to renewed acrimony within the ruling ANC party and the resignation of President Mbeki.
If your organisation has achieved something significant in Africa and we missed it, then please E-mail your news release to news@mbendi.com.
- AFRICAN BUSINESS ROUND-UP
General Business:
Africa continues to be impacted indirectly by international market turmoil. No African bank has required bailing out and the majority of the international banks operating in Africa are also unscathed so far. However financing has dried up, particularly for mining and oil exploration juniors from Canada and Australia, who are also faced with declining metal prices and markets as world economic growth slows and the automotive industry takes a hit from lower consumer spending, high oil prices and environmental regulations. We can expect to see African countries and companies turning to Asian and Middle Eastern providers of finance. Exchange rates have weakened markedly, good for African exporters, bad for importers. Stock exchange prices have dropped across the board, providing new opportunities for canny, value-seeking investors not moved by hype and hysteria. G8 government and corporate aid to the developing world is likely to be severely constrained.
Investment:
South Africa's JSE and global index provider FTSE Group have launched the FTSE/JSE All Africa 40 Index and the FTSE/JSE All Africa ex South Africa 30 Index.
Trade:
The Nigerian Customs Service has announced that goods produced in the Free Trade Zones, heretofore banned from sale locally, can now be sold on the domestic market. The government of Sweden has established a Swedish Trade Council centred on Namibia, which will shift Sweden's involvement from traditional grant assistance to active co-operation. Rwanda's 30 co-operative farmers are planting more ornamental trees, hoping to earn at least Frw 800 in export income in 2009.
International freight handling company, SDV Transami, has opened an inland container depot at Magerwa in Rwanda at a cost of US$ 2.6 million. The government of Kenya has banned the export of maize indefinitely. The United States has opened a trade office in Libya. The Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) has confirmed the suitability of Japan and China to import 51,121 tonnes of raw ivory that has been stockpiled in South Africa.
Mining:
given the current uncertain capital markets, PMI Gold, on the advice of its Corporate Finance advisors, has postponed its bond offering pending a return to more stable market conditions. Central Rand Gold has reported that it owns New Order prospecting and mining licences over 11 tenements in Southern Johannesburg which contain 35.6 million ounces of gold. DRDGOLD acquired an additional 15% interest in the Elsburg Gold Mining Joint Venture. IGC Resources decided not to proceed with the acquisition of 90% of TransAfrican Limited Zambia. Dynamite Resources entered into an agreement to purchase a 40% interest in the Segala gold project in Mali. Thabex disposed of its interest in Angel Diamonds. Sundance Resources reached agreement to acquire an increased direct interest in Congo Iron SA. Uganda expects export earnings from mineral resources for the next five years to generate US$ 350 million.
MBendi's Mining News provides new press releases for:
- Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corporation (diamonds, Namibia, South Africa)
- African Diamonds (diamonds, Botswana)
- Avion Resources Corp. (gold, Segala - Mali)
- Castilian Resources (nickel, Kagera - Tanzania)
- Centamin Egypt Ltd (gold, Sukari - Egypt)
- Companhia Vale de Rio Doce (CVRD) (coal, Moatize - Mozambique)
- DRDGOLD Limited (gold, ERPM - South Africa)
- El Nino Ventures Inc. (copper/cobalt, DRC)
- Equinox Minerals Limited (copper, Lumwana - Zambia)
- Etruscan Resources Inc. (gold, Youga - Burkina Faso)
- Gem Diamonds (diamonds, Letseng - Lesotho)
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- Goldfields Ltd / Goldplat plc (gold, South Africa)
- Hana Mining (copper/silver, Ghanzi - Botswana)
- Helio Resources (gold, Tanzania)
- ICS Copper Systems
- Keegan Resources Inc Kiwara (copper, Zambia)
- Lakota Resources Inc (gold, Tembo - Tanzania)
- Lihir Gold Ltd (gold, Bonikro - Ivory Coast)
- New Dawn Mining (gold, Turk - Zimbabwe)
- Petra Diamonds (South Africa)
- Rockgate Capital Corp (gold, Mali)
- Sierra Gold Corporation (gold, Sierra Leone)
- Uranium One Inc (uranium, South Africa)
- Uranium Star Corp (gold, Three Horses - Madagascar)
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Oil and Chemicals:
Corporate / M&A: Sasol, Eskom, PetroSA, Anglo American and the South African National Energy Research Institute are sponsoring the development of a R 2 million South African Carbon Dioxide Storage Atlas. Afren announced a strategic alliance with Sojitz Corporation to jointly pursue significant acquisition opportunities in Africa.
Upstream: Egypt has increased its oil output by 55,000 barrels per day, bringing daily oil production to 700,000 barrels for the first time in 14 years. Egypt has formed a delegation of oil companies to investigate petroleum projects in Iraq. The Government of Eritrea has signed two oil exploration and development agreements with Defba Oil Share Company. Cameroon's state-run National Hydrocarbons Corporation is searching for oil from deeper wells within the Douala Basin and is in talks with several drilling firms to start prospecting for oil in the Bakassi peninsula. Algeria is to renegotiate current energy projects to ensure Algerian partners have majority stakes. Nigeria has placed an embargo on the shipment of liquefied natural gas from train 6 of the Bonny LNG plant. Petronas, together with Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Moçambique, has been awarded the exploration and production concession contract for two Mozambique exploration blocks.
MBendi's Oil and Energy News provides recent press releases for the following companies:
- BP Exploration (Algeria, Angola)
- Circle Oil plc (Egypt)
- Chevron Corporation
- Dana Gas (Al Tawil-1, Egypt)
- East African Exploration (Block-1, Kenya)
- Eni (Angola)
- Heritage Oil Limited (Uganda)
- ION Geophysical Corporation (Nigeria)
- Lundin Petroleum AB (Ethiopia)
- Libyan National Oil Company (Libya)
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- MPDC Gabon Co., Ltd. (Nguma, Gabon)
- PA Resources Group (Tunisia)
- PetroSA (South Africa)
- Roc Oil (Cabinda) Company (MAW-1, Angola)
- RWE Dea (Egypt)
- Shell (Egypt)
- Sonangol E.P. (Angola)
- Tullow Oil (Ghana)
- VAALCO Energy (Gabon)
- Verenex Energy (Libya)
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Electrical Power / Telecoms:
The Vergnet Group expects to sign a contract with the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation involving the sale and installation of 120 1 MW wind turbines over a period of 3 years in a project costing over EUR 200 million. Mozambique is seeking funds for further energy generation projects. South Africa's Eskom has plans to double its spending to R 343 billion to expand its capacity and to almost double its generation capacity by 2026. CIC Energy's proposed Mmamabula coal-fired power station in Botswana may have to be scaled down from 2,400 MW to 1,200 MW due to increasing costs.
Vodafone has made an offer to South Africa's Telkom for a further 15% share in Vodacom. Telkom is deploying its own third generation wireless network across South Africa.
Finance:
With the global banking crisis, financing for African countries and companies has more or less dried up. Registered MBendi users can request an African finance spreadsheet from our website.
African Statistics:
The Bank of Namibia has lowered its growth forecast for the economy this year to 3.9% from 4.7%. Uganda's coffee replanting scheme has increased year-on-year exports of coffee by 50% over 2007. South African mining production for the three months ended August 2008, after seasonal adjustment, decreased by 0,5% compared with the previous three months, after large fluctuations since the start of 2008. South African manufacturing production for January to August 2008 increased by 3,0% compared with the same period in 2007, which was lower than the annual increase of 3,4% reported for the period January to July 2008. Kenyan tea prices are the highest in 25 years. Rwanda's annual inflation has reached 20% on the back of high commodity prices. Maize deliveries to South African silos grew to 10.96 million tonnes in the week to October 10, up from 10.94 million tonnes in the week before. In spite of having a vast amount of land suitable for growing sugar, Nigeria is still importing about 1.2 million tonnes of sugar annually, about 90% of the country's sugar needs. We publish a monthly page of African Exchange Rates.
Politics:
Cape Town's mayor, Helen Zille, has been voted the world's top mayor. Several former leaders of South Africa's ruling ANC party have resigned and are calling a national convention where a new political party is expected to be formed. Tensions are rising between the DRC and Rwanda. Zimbabwe's political parties are still deadlocked over the allocation of cabinet posts. A multinational fleet has been despatched to counter piracy off the Somalia coast.
If your organisation has achieved something significant in Africa and we missed it, then please E-mail your news release to news@mbendi.com.
- The Africa Team - Helping You to do Business in Africa!
- accounting firm BDO Spencer Steward assists companies with planning and managing expatriate assignments and transfer pricing
- The Brenthurst Foundation is on the frontier of knowledge in contributing to a debate around strategies and policies for strengthening Africa's economic performance.
- Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, a leading South African law firm, is affiliated to global legal services organisation DLA Piper, which has offices around the world including Africa
- CITAC, the 'African Energy Specialists', has special knowledge of refining and petroleum products marketing in West and Central Africa.
- Fortifying Africa, addressing Africa's nutritional needs
- The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), financing Africa's growth
- Lynx Oil and Gas Consultants providing the upstream Oil & Gas industry with professionals globally on a contract basis for both short-term and long-term projects
- Whitehouse & Associates, specialists in African market research
- Wildnet Africa providing a range of Southern and Eastern African game farms and lodges for sale
- The World after 2020
Every winter, when the storms roll in from the Atlantic and bash against my house, I find myself wondering how the thousands of shack dwelling families on the outskirts of Cape Town are coping with the wind and water and cold. Despite efforts of government and private enterprise to build proper homes for them, each year there seem to be more plastic and corrugated zinc dwellings for the migrants who teem in from the Transkei and from further north in Africa. I admire them for their persistence, tenacity and enterprise in coping with adversity and imagine how bad things must be back home for them to make this risky move.
This week, as the latest storm struck, I found myself also imagining another young family, this time in Texas. Earlier this year, they found to their dismay that the house they had saved so hard to buy just a couple of years back was now worth less than the mortgage they had raised to buy it. Then Hurricane Ike struck and overnight the house was reduced to rubble. Their insurance company had made some risky investments in recent years and there was no guarantee they would pay out the full replacement cost of the house. No-one would buy their shiny SUV, not that they could afford to drive it with gasoline at US$ 5 per gallon, living costs had soared as the dollar depreciated and their few stock exchange investments weren't worth a bean. Finally, the last straw, the bank they both worked for went belly up and the couple lost not only their jobs but their pension savings as well.
This American family might be a figment of my imagination and something of an exaggeration, but I think my sketch adds a much-needed personal touch to the financial headlines that have dominated our newspapers and TV news in recent weeks. In all the talk about saving the financial system - and the jobs of the greedy financiers who ruined it - there seems to be very little said about saving the little financial systems of families everywhere. Maybe it's time for a bottom up approach instead of a top down solution?
The other thing that strikes me most forcibly as I consider these battered African and American families, is that maybe now the myth will finally be dispelled that the risks of living and working and investing in the developing world are somehow much, much higher than the risks of living and working and investing in the developed world. It's a myth that has been perpetuated for ever and a day by first world based credit rating agencies - perhaps they should be called discredited ratings agencies after their recent dismal performances - to the detriment of governments and companies and individuals around the world. Just as the world's financial systems are about to be redesigned - no doubt with next to no input from the finance mandarins in Korea, China, India, Russia, Brazil, the Middle East and the other future economic powerhouses of this world - maybe it's also time to redesign the credit rating systems and procedures so that they no longer reflect the first world prejudices, subjectivity and, often, ignorance of the past but instead accurately measure risk in a completely dispassionate way. That would also make life less risky for families everywhere.
With all this worry about risks in mind, I need to batten down the hatches as the next storms approach - let's see what they bring in their wake!
- The World after 2020
We usually use this column to encourage people to think beyond the short-term to the jig-saw of issues that is going to affect our lives twenty or thirty years from now - burgeoning populations, energy, food, water and pension security, climate change, the environment and a whole lot more. However, this week everyone is so focused on today's financial crisis and how it affects each of us in our business and personal capacities that I thought I'd combine two topics we know well here at MBendi - Making Effective Use of the Internet and Keeping Costs Down.
The best place for you to start is to introduce home working - telecommuting in business parlance - for all the knowledge workers in your organisation. It will save time, improve productivity and, if implemented properly, allow you to renegotiate your office lease for a much smaller space. You will also reduce your carbon footprint. However, there are some issues you need to think through: Who pays for the employee's home infrastructure? How do you and the employee share the commuting time saved? How do you set and measure employee work goals? From our own experience, we still recommend employees come into the office once or twice a week to maintain group cohesion. Of course, when business picks up, telecommuting allows you to expand by employing the best people at the lowest remuneration regardless of their location.
Use Skype to cut your telecommunications costs. We find the instant messaging feature of Skype is useful for communications more urgent than an E-mail but not warranting a call. With the festive season coming up, you could buy cheap little video cameras for all your customers and so bring a smile, not just to their lips as they interact with you online, but also to those of the Asian manufacturers, whose export markets have dried up; to the computer shop unable to sell laptops; to your boss, impressed by your increased productivity and lower travel costs; and to yourself, no longer stuck in traffic jams en route to customers. Also to the broadband company, so exercise some care as you spread joy and cameras around.
If you send out your invoices and customer statements by E-mail as PDF attachments, you won't just eliminate envelopes, paper and postage costs, along with all the manual manipulations, but you might also improve your cash flows as customers get their bills quicker and, hopefully, also pay sooner. The big thing to remember is to make absolutely sure the subject line on your E-mail explains exactly what is attached so the junk filters don't gobble them up. Incidentally, you can also cut your marketing and advertising costs by making sure you have PDF brochures and catalogues you can send by E-mail - just whatever you do, don't think this gives you a licence to spam the world and clog the networks with ginormous files!
So far, so good. You've saved a lot of money and gained a bit of extra time which you can now use productively by going online and using your browser. If you work in purchasing, see if you can find new and cheaper suppliers. If you work in marketing, seek out new customers. However, I would add two cautions. If you find a potential business partner through your Internet search, then make sure the E-mail you send to make contact is top-notch - first impressions are crucial and a vague, poorly worded, misspelled E-mail can be the death knell of a promising relationship. You should also avoid the false economy of spending days on a search engine to build a contact list, including possibly dodgy data, when you can buy a list from a reputable market research house.
I've left web marketing till last in the hopes I can cram into a paragraph what should take up a whole book. Today, more than ever, people - individuals and employees - are looking for value for money: does your website quickly show how your organisation can give them bang for their buck or do you bore them with mission statements and company philosophies? There are hundreds of millions of websites competing with yours for attention - instead of hoping your audience will find you, put yourself in their shoes and try to figure out what websites and newsletters they use on a regular basis and put an effective message, with a link, there. This is particularly important if you are looking for finance, agents or business partners who might otherwise not know they are being sought out. I know this will probably sound like heresy to my peers in the Internet industry, but I don't think that flashy banners (and websites) and intrusive pop-up adverts work nearly as well as carefully positioned text adverts and crisp wording on the website linked to. And text ads are much cheaper to boot. In fact you could probably make huge savings by cancelling irritating TV advertising altogether and focusing on the Internet - however don't expect your ad agency to back this suggestion as it would probably spell the end of some lucrative commissions for them which currently appear as large, amorphous costs on your profit and loss statement.
The bottom line is to use the current economic crisis as an excuse to reap the long-overdue and unharvested benefits of belonging to the Internet era. In a later section in this and future newsletters we will make suggestions on how you can make effective use of the MBendi website and newsletters to help you through the doom and gloom - best news of all, there will be no charge for taking advantage of most of our recommendations. So, go to it and use the Internet and MBendi to prepare yourselves for a bright new future! In our next newsletter, we'll go back to dreaming about what the world might look like once today's turmoil has passed....
Some useful links to further stimulate your thinking about where the world is going: MBendi Blog - Signposts to 2020 | Previous Newsletters | World Outlook
- Upcoming Events
Our list of upcoming conferences and exhibitions taking place around the world provides a wide range of business events that will be of interest to our readers (just click on the links to get more information and contact the organisers):
BDO Spencer Steward is hosting their annual Global Expatriate Conference on October 1st, 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany
Regal Exchange and Associates is the organiser of the following events:
The Oxford Princeton Programme is the organiser of the following South African events:
GreenPower Conferences is the organiser of the following global events:
MIS Training is the organiser of Risk Based Operational Auditing starting 6th October 2008 in Johannesburg - South Africa
Global Pacific & Partners are the organisers of the Africa Oil Week 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa starting October 8th, 2008
Exhibition Management Services is the organiser of Powergen Electrotex Nigeria 2008 starting 8th October, 2008 in Abuja, Nigeria
Paydirt Media is the organiser of the World Diamond Conference starting 13th October 2008 in Perth, Australia
ADEA is the organiser of a Workshop on Energy in Southern Africa on 14th October, 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa
ENSPM Formation Industrie is the organiser of the 12th International Gas Summit starting October 17-18, 2008 in Paris, France
GreenPower Conferences is the organiser of the following global events:
IIR South Africa is the organiser of the Mining in Botswana Conference 2008 in Midrand, South Africa starting November 5th, 2008
Fair Consultants SA is the organiser of the The 7th African Aid Relief and Disaster Management Expo and Conference in Midrand, South Africa starting November 5th, 2008
Regal Exchange and Associates is the organiser of the following events during November:
GreenPower Conferences is the organiser of the following global events during November:
Global Leaders is the organiser of the following events during November:
Global Pacific & Partners is the organiser of the 2nd Angola Upstream in London, UK starting November 20th, 2008
IIR South Africa is the organiser of: IIR's 5th Annual HR Africa Summit 2008 commencing 24th November 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa
IIR Conferences is the organiser of: Mobile & NFC Payment Strategies commencing 24th November 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa
MIS Training is the organiser of the Security Africa Summit 2008 starting 26th November 2008 in Johannesburg - South Africa
Regal Exchange and Associates is the organiser of the following events during December:
ADEA is the organiser of the Energy and Sustainable Development Summit in Africa starting 2nd December, 2008 in Dakar, Sénégal
IIC is the organiser of the Mining Indaba 2009, the world’s largest gathering of mining industry stakeholders, which will once again be held in beautiful Cape Town from 9th to 12th February 2009.
Event organisers can request our advertising ratecard in order to get details of our highly effective event advertising package, used by all the organisers of the events listed above. We also provide a directory of event venues around the world.
- accounting firm BDO Spencer Steward assists companies with planning and managing expatriate assignments and transfer pricing
- The Brenthurst Foundation is on the frontier of knowledge in contributing to a debate around strategies and policies for strengthening Africa's economic performance.
- Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, a leading South African law firm, is affiliated to global legal services organisation DLA Piper, which has offices around the world including Africa
- CITAC, the 'African Energy Specialists', has special knowledge of refining and petroleum products marketing in West and Central Africa.
- Fortifying Africa, addressing Africa's nutritional needs
- The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), financing Africa's growth
- Lynx Oil and Gas Consultants providing the upstream Oil & Gas industry with professionals globally on a contract basis for both short-term and long-term projects
- Whitehouse & Associates, specialists in African market research
- Wildnet Africa providing a range of Southern and Eastern African game farms and lodges for sale
- UPCOMING EVENTS
Our list of upcoming conferences and exhibitions taking place around the world provides a wide range of business events that will be of interest to our readers (just click on the links to get more information and contact the organisers):
Regal Exchange and Associates is the organiser of the following events during October:
IIR South Africa is the organiser of the Mining in Botswana Conference 2008 in Midrand, South Africa, starting October 27th, 2008
GreenPower Conferences is the organiser of Carbon Capture & Storage commencing 28th October 2008 in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Fair Consultants SA is the organiser of the The 7th African Aid Relief and Disaster Management Expo and Conference in Midrand, South Africa, starting November 5th, 2008
The Flour Fortification Initiative is the organiser of First African Flour Fortification Workshop in Arusha, Tanzania, starting November 17th, 2008
Informa plc is the organiser of major telecommunications event AfricaCom in Cape Town, South Africa starting November 18th, 2008
Teach A Man To Fish is the organiser of Education That Pays For Itself 2008 in Karatara, South Africa starting November 18th, 2008
Global Leaders is the organiser of the following events during November:
Regal Exchange and Associates is the organiser of the following events during November:
GreenPower Conferences is the organiser of the following global events during November:
Global Pacific & Partners is the organiser of the 2nd Angola Upstream in London, UK starting November 20th, 2008
IIR South Africa is the organiser of: IIR's 5th Annual HR Africa Summit 2008 commencing 24th November 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa
IIR Conferences is the organiser of: Mobile & NFC Payment Strategies commencing 24th November 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa
MIS Training is the organiser of the Security Africa Summit 2008 starting 26th November 2008 in Johannesburg - South Africa
Regal Exchange and Associates is the organiser of the following events during December:
GreenPower Conferences is the organiser of Corporate Water Footprinting commencing Decmber 2nd 2008 in San Francisco, USA
EMRC is the organiser of the Africa Finance & Investment Forum 2008 starting 7th December, 2008 in Paris, France
ADEA is the organiser of the Energy and Sustainable Development Summit in Africa starting 2nd December, 2008 in Dakar, Sénégal
IIC is the organiser of the Mining Indaba 2009, the world’s largest gathering of mining industry stakeholders, which will once again be held in beautiful Cape Town from 9th to 12th February 2009.
the African Refiners Association is the organiser of the African Refiners Week 2009 starting 9th March, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa
The Oxford Princeton Programme is the organiser of the following events during August 2009:
Event organisers can request our advertising ratecard in order to get details of our highly effective event advertising package, used by all the organisers of the events listed above. We also provide a directory of event venues around the world.
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