Zimbabwe is set to officially launch the sale ofits diamond stocks on Wednesday (August, 11) in Harare buoyed by the Kimberly Process ruling in July , Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has announced.
KP monitor, Abbey Chikane is set to attend the ceremony.
“The launch of the diamond sales will be made on Wednesday,” Mpofu said. “President Robert [...]

Zimbabwe’s tobacco board say a total of 53 065 farmers have so far registered to grow tobacco in the 2010/11 season amid reports that growers have delivered 109.6 million kilograms (241.6 million pounds) this year, compared with a crop estimate of 70 million kilograms.
This is the highest in eight years.
The Tobacco Industry and [...]

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In a move that is set to hugely boost connectivity of East African countries with rest of the world, Bharti Airtel, one of the leading emerging markets’ telcos together with global telcos on Friday announced the launch of the EASSy cable system.
This 10000 Km cable has received investment of around $263 million and has a [...]

Kenyans have overwhelmingly voted for a new constitution.
The constitution was endorsed by a massive 5 954 767 votes representing 67.2 percent of those who cast their votes.
Those who rejected the draft were 2 687 183 or 30.35 percent.
Releasing the results, IIEC chairman Isaak Hassan said the new constitution had been approved by more 50 percent [...]

Kenya: The approval of the proposed constitution is a big boost to the economy, members of the business community have said.
Speaking immediately after Kenyans overwhelmingly voted for a new constitution, Equity Bank Managing Director, Dr James Mwangi said the passage of the proposed law will jumpstart the economy.
“The tranquillity that prevailed throughout the voting period [...]

Kenya is on the verge of realising the dream of having a new constitution after the proponents of the proposed new constitution opened a wide margin early on Thursday, in the referendum that was held on Wednesday. By the time of the filing of this story, the supporters of the constitution popularly known as the [...]

In amplification of the new vehicle sales statistics for the month of July, 2010 – released today by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) – the Association commented that new vehicle sales had recorded a mixed performance with new car sales registering creditable gains but new light commercial vehicle sales showing [...]

Support for Malawi’s vice president Joyce Banda is building with the country’s non-governmental organisations (NGOs) mother body, the Council for Non-Governmental Organisations in Malawi (CONGOMA), pledging to support any woman vying for a position including that of the presidency.
This should be the first sign that a decision by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to [...]

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“I will be on TV channel SA Got Talent” says energetic Emma.

The UK own version of Got Talent comes to SA for its second season. The competition has been adopted in over 30 countries worldwide. S.A Got talent auditions are being held all over South Africa in [...]