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South Africa's sugar industry is at a tipping point with more than 40000 jobs hanging in the balance.
2013-09-16 07:54:44| Sugar Industry News
We are losing R50-million a month because sugar is being imported into South Africa. "This [imported] sugar is below the cost of production globally," SA Sugar Association chairman Bongani Linda yesterday told Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti.
Deere Lures Africa's First-Time Buyers of Tractors
2013-09-12 17:09:57| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The businessman bought his first tractor, a 60-horsepower model, about three months ago after becoming fed up with paying others to plow his 1,000 acres in Zambia.
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Climate threat to Southern Africas crops
2013-09-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The study, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and with contributions from scientists in countries across the southern Africa region, uses available data and a variety of models to examine likely agricultural developments, particularly related to crops, in the period to 2050. Agriculture is the primary source of employment and income for most of the rural population in southern Africa. In Malawi about 40% of gross domestic product (GDP) comes from agriculture....
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Nigeria's Dangote loans[sic] $3.3bn to build Africa's biggest oil refinery
2013-09-05 09:14:31| Sugar Industry News
Nigeria will see massive growth as Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote loans [the M&G journalist meant to write 'borrows'] $3.3-billion to turn the country into an oil exporter for the first time.
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VIDEO: South Africa's strike 'dilemma'
2013-08-28 14:37:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
South African motor industry workers have failed to reach a deal with their bosses at Toyota, Ford and BMW. The BBC's Lerato Mbele says the workers face inflation but "the economy is not growing".
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