Search Results for: Botswana

BY ANDREW MARAMWIDZE, IN GABARONE

Economic uncertainties are keeping Botswana’s textile industry teetering on the brink, with its exports falling hard, despite a USD4.5 million (Botswana Pula BWP38 million) government stimulus package spent during and after 2010.

The latest export figures from the Botswana ministry of trade and industry show Botswana netted a paltry USD41 million in textile exports during the first quarter of 2012.…

BY ANDREW MARAMWIDZE, IN GABORONE

Canadian metals miner Hana Mining has told an international mining conference in Botswana that it is projecting 3.6 million tonnes of ore production from its planned second copper-silver mine in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt. Speaking to the on-going Botswana Resource Sector Conference in the capital Gaborone today, Johannes Tsimako regional manager for the Vancouver-based company, said: "The project is getting bigger, there is a lot of potential that is still untapped."…

BY ANDREW MARAMWIDZE, IN GABORONE

Australia-based mining company Discovery Metals Limited’s share price has increased in line with the company’s progress in developing the first copper-silver mine in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt, a major mining conference in the country’s capital Gabarone was told today (26/6).…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S diamond industry is blossoming into a world leader as the third largest producer of rough diamonds, after Botswana and Russia. But ready profits from valuable natural resources can encourage crime, specifically money laundering. Leah Germain investigates the country’s current legislation and precautions taken by the industry to prevent the laundering of assets through the purchase of diamonds.…

BY ANDREW MARAMWIDZE, IN GABARONE

THE BOTSWANA government claims it is fulfilling demands made by the European Union (EU) to improve livestock disease controls in the face of foot and mouth disease outbreaks, and hopes an EU beef import ban will soon be lifted.…

BY JOHN PAGNI

A FINNISH company is claiming to have invented a new system for sequestering carbon dioxide emissions, diluting them in water, which is filtered through feldspar minerals, turning CO2 into bicarbonate. Cuycha Innovation Oy claims the system will be trialled in Botswana and South Africa this year and next.…

BY KATHERINE DUNN

WELL-MEANING environmental health campaigners can kill innocent victims through unintended consequences of their positions. Whether it is opposing the use of malaria killing insecticide DDT or opposing the use of vaccines, such campaigns open environmentalists to criticism because they are opposing the use of proven disease control methods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ASSESSMENTS of tax information transparency standards for eight key jurisdictions have been released by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, which is run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).…

By Keith Nuthall, International News Services

Both projects draw on the eight volume Unesco-coordinated General History of Africa written from 1964 to 1999 which tried to create a standard for the continent written from an African rather than a colonial European perspective.

An evaluation study on using this general history in higher education throughout the continent will be written this year.…

By Keith Nuthall

Historians are working with Unesco and educationalists to try to develop a common African history syllabus, including the teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will initially focus on helping primary and secondary schools across the continent and, this coming year, an assessment will consider how universities in Africa could benefit from such work.…