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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA’S Northwest Territories new found wealth in the diamond industry has fuelled concern amongst authorities in the region, as well as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). They fear that organised crime may be on an upswing as a result of an influx of money and people that the region has not seen since the Yukon gold rush of the Nineteenth Century.…

Keith Nuthall
GUINNESS UDV is perfecting the brewing of Guinness and Kilkenny at Namibian Breweries with an eye to allowing the south west African brewer to offer these brands under licence to the regional markets of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
SOUTH African Breweries, (SAB), has reported that it has successfully completed tests of its new mild stout draught called Kingswood premium. Testing was carried out at thirty Johannesburg and Pretoria pubs. Early results indicate that the brand has been well received but no final decision as yet has been undertaken to begin rolling it out across the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African Synthetic fuels company, SASOL is reported to be actively seeking further foreign acquisitions in the EU and north America, following its purchase of Germany’s Condea. A spokesman for SASOL said, “It remains the company’s corporate growth strategy to look for at synergistic alliances and joint-ventures on a global basis.”…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH Africa’s first bio-diesel refinery is to be built near Johannesburg at an estimated cost of R 83 million, (US$9.7 million), and is expected to produce 60,000 tons of diesel fuel annually. Managing director of Seed Oil Refinery South Africa (SORSA) Bernd Schmidt (SPELLING CORRECT) said that production would help decrease the country’s dependence on imported crude oil.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE SOUTH African agriculture and land minister Thoko Didiza has urged wine growers in the Western Cape to embrace automation in the industry, to deal with the loss of low paid labourers who have left the region’s agricultural industries since the onset of black majority rule in 1994.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE AIRPORTS Company of South Africa has warned that its profitability could be threatened by a slump in the number of international airlines flying into the country, as the boom in travel that greeted the onset of majority rule wears off.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TIMING of concessions that can be achieved at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural round, sweeping away the high tariffs, import quotas, production subsidies and export credits that make the working lives of every agricultural exporter more of a struggle, are likely to be set in the next three months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the EU of certain steel and iron cables from the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey and Thailand.

Its decision – by the written procedure used during Brussels’ summer break – follows an inquiry, which “confirmed” concerns that the sale of cut-priced cables from these countries was harming EU producers.…