DIE Ontwikkelingsbank van Namibië (DBN) het in die vierde kwartaal van 2011 lenings ter waarde van N$154,31 miljoen goedgekeur. Van hierdie leningsbedrae is N$79,01 miljoen aan klein tot medium ondernemings (SME’s), N$45,3 miljoen aan die private sektor ...   Lees meer

WINDHOEK – Fresh on the back of a recently successfully concluded IPM convention, Tim Ekandjo, Chief Human Capital & Corporate Affairs Officer at MTC and Founder and President of the Institute of People Management of Namibia shares the resolutions that were taken at the convention.   Lees meer

CAIRO. - Asma Mahfuz, an activist and blogger involved in the uprising earlier this year that toppled presi¬dent Hosni Mubarak, will be tried by a military court for defamation, a judicial source said. Mahfuz was questioned Sunday for “speaking inappropriately ...   Lees meer

LILONGWE. - Some leading Malawi rights groups said they could pull out of mass demonstrations scheduled for this week against President Bingu wa Mutharika as they await a court decision on whether the rallies would be legal. Opposition groups have given the ...   Lees meer

CAIRO. - Egypt’s former prime minister Ahmed Nazif is being questioned by military prosecutors on charges of corruption, a military source told AFP. Nazif is accused of seizing state-owned land and squandering public money. It is the first time a member of ...   Lees meer

HARARE. - Zimbabwe’s state media has reported that the state mining corporation says it is pay¬ing government employee raises this month with revenues from controversy-mired diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe. The Finance Ministry, controlled by the prime minister’s party in the troubled coalition, ...   Lees meer

AFRICA backs French finance minister Christine Lagarde as next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), her Republic of Congo counterpart Matata Mapon said at a meeting of the African Development Bank on Friday. “We are encouraged by your vi-sion of the IMF in the world, ...   Lees meer

IN die huidige omgewing van laer as verwagte opbrengs ná die wêreldwye finansiële krisis, toon beleggers en adviseurs groter belangstelling in kostedoeltreffende indeksverwante beleggingsgeleenthede. “Dit is egter verbasend dat daar in Suid-Afrika sowel as ...   Lees meer

Home sellers who refuse to lower their asking price will struggle to make a sale as debt-ridden South Africans avoid buying new houses, First National Bank's (FNB's) property analytics department said. FNB's Third Quarter Residential Property Review reported ...   Lees meer

Ben Freeth (40), a commercial farmer from Chegutu in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, was presented with an MBE (Member of the British Empire) award by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace last week. Freeth was part of a group of ...   Lees meer