Google Search now in Setswana

30 August, 2010 in Botswana

source: Mmegi EPHRAIM KEORENG Staff Writer Linguist Dr Thapelo Otlogetswe together with some professionals has created a Google Search interface tool that allows a user to access Google in Setswana. In an interview with Mmegi yesterday, Dr Otlogetswe said working together with Pontsho Puoesele, who works for an IT company in Botswana, Gao Mosweu, an [...]

South Africa: Zuma urged to end strike

30 August, 2010 in South Africa

source: IOL August 30 2010 at 08:36AM By Gaye Davis, Xolani Mbanjwa and Aziz Hartley Intense behind-the-scenes moves are under way to bring the government and unions together for informal talks in a bid to break the deadlock and avert the possibility of the crippling public sector strike lasting a third week. Analysts have said [...]

Debswana answers for `spy cameras` in toilets

30 August, 2010 in Botswana

source: Mmegi ISAIAH MOREWAGAE Staff Writer The strict preventive measures employed by Debswana Diamond Company at its Completely Automated Recovery Plant (CARP) of Orapa Mines are the central part of the ongoing spy camera case before Lobatse High Court Judge, Isaac Lesetedi. The security measures include strip searches, forbidding handshakes, hand to cover mouth when [...]

Heavy leakages in VAT collection – WB

30 August, 2010 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi BRIAN BENZA Staff Writer Government can potentially raise more than twice the P4.3 billion it collected in Value Added Tax (VAT) last year if proper measures are taken to plug leakages, the World Bank reckons. Although the VAT rate is currently at 12 percent having been increased from 10 percent early this year, [...]

Zim central bank to retrench 85%

30 August, 2010 in Zimbabwe

source: News24 2010-08-29 20:20 Jan Raath Harare – Zimbabwe’s bankrupt central bank is to retrench 85% of its bloated staff complement to help it move back into the black and function as a reliable national bank, according to Finance Minister Tendai Biti. The lay-offs will mark the end of what analysts say was the use [...]

New uranium deposits uncovered in Shoshong

30 August, 2010 in Botswana, Business, Mining

source: Mmegi BRIAN BENZA Staff Writer Botswana-focused uranium hopeful, Impact Minerals, has discovered large quantities of uranium deposits in the Central District, adding impetus to the Australia Stock Exchange-listed miner’s quest to open a mine in Botswana soon. In a statement circulated to shareholders this week, Impact says it has unearthed significant resources in the [...]

Africa: Chinese Firms Take to Africa Like Bushfire

30 August, 2010 in Africa

source: allAfrica The Nation (Nairobi) Justus Ondari 29 August 2010 Nairobi — The Chinese influence, in the form of its people, investment and business, is sweeping across the African continent like a wild fire. Be it financing and executing massive infrastructure projects — roads, power plants and mineral extraction, or small time commercial ventures such [...]