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IN THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Buying Thoroughbred Horses a Good Investment
2. Business: China Helps Kenya to Expand its Economy
3. Business: Fewer Whites now live in Zimbabwe
4. Business: Film Industry in South Africa
5. Business: Update on Zimbabwe farmers who moved to
Nigeria
6. Education: Attending a private college in Beijing
7. Education: Medical Research Protests
8. Education: British Open University
9. Immigration: Australia launches program to recruit
more workers
10. Real Estate: South African Housing Report
11. Travel: Elephant Parks in Kenya
12. Travel: Nairobi National Park, Is it doomed?
13. Travel: Sad loss for the Delamere Group
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1. Business: Buying Thoroughbred Horses a Good
Investment
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Johannesburg
- The average price of the 325 horse sold at the Two-Year-Old
Sale at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association sales
complex at Gosforth Park on the past weekend increased
by 27.56 percent over last year to R23 657 million.
The average price was R72 791 - 38.94 percent up on
the R52 390 average last year. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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2. Business: China Helps Kenya to Expand its Economy
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China,
eager to boost economic links with Africa, has handed
Kenya $34.32 million in aid, mainly to modernize its
ailing state-run power company. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Visit our web page for business
and trade in Kenya. Click
here.
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3. Business: Fewer Whites now live in Zimbabwe
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Fewer
than 50 000 whites remain in Zimbabwe, down from a peak
of 293 000 under white rule, according to an analysis
of the most recent census published in a state-run newspaper.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Visit our web page for business
and trade in Zimbabwe. Click
here.
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4. Business: Film Industry in South Africa
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Less than a decade ago, the Western Cape region of South
Africa was considered a relatively small-time player
in the big-time world of movie making. Today it is the
fifth busiest production destination in the world, and
according to the Cape Film Commission, generates an
estimated R2 billion per annum.
Its
closest competitors in the features and television movie
making category are Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Since 1994 the industry in the Western Cape has grown
from 5 production companies and 50 crew to 150 production
companies and 1 650 skilled suppliers. Five feature
films were made here in 2001 compared to 37 in 2004.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Business: Update on Zimbabwe farmers who moved
to Nigeria
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More
than 3,000 white Zimbabwean farmers have been forced
off their land in recent years, as President Robert
Mugabe tries to "Africanise" agriculture.
To see the latest photos from the BBC, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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6. Education: Attending a private college in Beijing
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As China continues to surge onto the global economic
stage, it is undergoing one of the most ambitious higher
education expansions in the world. Spurred by a government
call in the late 1990s to build world-class universities
and broaden access to the masses, the country is prying
open the doors of institutions that formerly served
a narrow elite. It's pouring money into research, welcoming
private, and broadening the curriculum to ensure that
its grads stay on top in a knowledge-based world economy.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: The Delamere
Group plans to open a private college in Beijing
in the near future, to be known as the Beijing Academy,
and will present business courses related to small business,
investing, travel, plus other important business skills.
Sign up for our Newsletter to keep up to date.
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7. Education: Medical Research Protests
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A
farm in England is to stop breeding guinea pigs for
medical research after intimidation by animal rights
activists. Campaigners who have legitimately picketed
the farm over recent years said they would continue
their protest until the guinea pig breeding operation
officially closed at the end of the year. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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8. Education: British Open University
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The
Open University and the BBC have teamed up to create
this very informative online learning portal that draws
on the strengths of both organizations. The site contains
several primary sections, including those dedicated
to providing online learning content, discussion forums,
and broadcast programs on television and radio.
The
learning section of the site includes a section where
visitors can learn how to make their own catapult and
find out about the geology of the British Isles. In
the "Open2 Today" area, visitors can learn
about the programs featured that day. The moderated
discussion forums also provide access to additional
debate and discussion on topics brought up by some of
the primary programs, including those on the English
language and migratory birds. Visit
this site.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet
Scout Project 1994-2005
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9. Immigration: Australia launches program to
recruit more workers
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The
Department of Immigration is launching a worldwide hunt
for 20,000 skilled migrants to fill job vacancies, in
the biggest push of its kind since the 1960s.
The
Department of Immigration is organising a series of
work expos in London, Berlin, Chennai and Amsterdam.
Department
spokesman Abdul Rizvi says the expos will target workers
with skills in areas including engineering, traditional
trades, the health sector and accounting. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Visit our page on Australia,
plus our Immigration
Update pages.
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10. Real Estate: South African Housing Report
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THE
latest data on building plans passed and residential
buildings completed for the first six months of 2005
in South Africa point to a sharp 43.5% drop in the number
of lower-income, smaller houses completed. The report
also highlights greater demand for higher-density residential
developments like townhouses and flats, rather than
for stand-alone houses. To read the full report, go
to our NEWS
DESK link.
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11. Travel: Elephant Parks in Kenya
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Kenya
has begun moving 400 elephants from one national park,
Shimba Hills, to a larger one, Tsavo East National Park,
in what it calls the biggest transport of animals "since
Noah's Ark". To read the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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12. Travel: Nairobi National Park, Is it doomed?
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Giraffe
nibbles lazily at an acacia tree. Buffalos graze on
the plains. Tourists with binoculars scan for hippos
in streams running down wooded hills.
It may look like a typical view of an idyllic African
safari -- but Nairobi National Park is rather different.
Just yards behind the safari park outside the Kenyan
capital, factories belch grey smoke into the sky while
a slum pushes ever closer to the fence.
Aircraft roar over the park from a nearby airport, though
there is barely a rustle from the animals below, so
used are they to noise pollution. On the other side,
where the park melds into the plains of the Rift Valley,
hundreds of homesteads dot the landscape, blocking the
migration in and out for thousands of wild animals.
As it approaches its 60th anniversary in 2006, campaigners
warn that Nairobi National Park one of Africa's oldest
and most unique may soon go out of existence if the
urban sprawl continues and tourists are put off by falling
animal numbers. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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13. Travel: Sad loss for the Delamere Group
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The
British owner of a safari camp in Kenya was shot dead
this month when he tried to help one of his security
guards who had been taken hostage by robbers.
John
Goldson, 69, a personal friend of our "senior partner"
was hit in the chest as he approached the gang in the
car park of his up market tented camp on Tuesday night.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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This month's quote
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them
than to have them and not deserve them. ~ Mark Twain
