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Johannesburg's Gold Reef City will in early April play host to International Bollywood, an extravaganza that promises to whip up a whirlwind of colourful dancing, singing and performances with Bollywood songstress Sonam Kalra and Indian Idols finalist, Mukesh Tomar.

Planning Minister Trevor Manuel is to serve on a high-level United Nations group is tasked with getting finance to help developing countries to combat climate change.

Business confidence rose sharply in the first quarter of 2010, according to a new survey, though the the upsurge in confidence seemed mainly to have been based on merchants' expectations of an imminent upturn rather than the actual improvement in current conditions.

ProCredit bank (SL) Ltd Sierra Leone has announced that they are unable to meet the 'new' regulation of the Sierra Leone's Central Bank and therefore will soon pass off ownership to Ecobank.

The transfer will enable Ecobank to expand business operations in the microfinance sector and thus strengthening the group of 30 affiliated banks…

The Ghana High Commissioner to Malaysia, Daniel Abodakpi has extended a warm hand of friendship for Malaysian experts to partner Ghana in its oil and gas industry.

The High Commissioner expressed this sentiment at a reception organised to mark the 53rd Independence Anniversary of Ghana which fell on Saturday 6th March 2010. The reception was attended…

A pilot public-private partnership between the government, the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Microsoft South Africa has been launched to help reduce South Africa's service delivery backlog by placing skilled graduates and high-level training initiatives directly into local government.

Take the Cape Town open-top bus tour, ride the Table Mountain Cableway and explore the Two Oceans Aquarium - at reduced rates, without having to queue, in the space of one amazing day! That's the Cape Town Go Card offer. Join us as we check it out.

President Jacob Zuma has nominated Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk for the post of the United Nations' new climate chief. Van Schalkwyk has been tipped as a strong contender to take over from Yvo De Boer, who announced his resignation last month.

South Africa's Standard Bank and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development (OFID) launched two unique African development financing initiatives. The first of the OFID/Standard Bank initiatives is a smallholder Risk Sharing Agreement, which is to work in support of the Agriculture Guarantee Fund…

Emirates Airlines has unveiled its intention to commence direct flights to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. According to a statement released Monday by the embassy of United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dakar, the airlines said from the 1st September it will commence its non-stop flights to the Senegalese capital, five times a week.

According to the statement,…