IN THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Arms Contract between South Africa and India
2. Business: Chinese currency reform program
3. Business: Employment in South Africa
4. Business: Sanctions against Libya are lifted
5. Business: The full price of aids in Africa
6. Business: Tourism to South Africa is Booming
7. Business: Wealthy individuals are the taxman's new targets
8. Education: Elephant Trade in Africa
9. Education: Nobel Peace Prize for Kenyan
10. Education: The Internet Public Library (IPL)
11. Global Trade: UK Prime Minister urges the world to help
Africa
12. Immigration: H1-B Visa quota may increase
13. Travel: Cape Town first choice for tourists
14. Travel: Cape Town wins award from visitors
15. Travel: Tourism to the Cape, South Africa
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1. Business: Arms Contract between South Africa and India
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Johannesburg
- A R2.5 billion contract for Denel to supply ordnance to the
Indian army has been signed, according to the arms maker's Indian
partners. Sapa said New Delhi Television reported on Friday
that the deal for 100 tank turrets and 155mm guns had been signed.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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2. Business: Chinese currency reform program
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Washington
- US Treasury Secretary John Snow urged China Friday to act
more decisively to implement a flexible exchange rate hours
after his department announced that Chinese officials had promised
to move "firmly and steadily" toward easing their
currency policy. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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3. Business: Employment in South Africa
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South Africa has started to make very meaningful strides in
reducing unemployment. According to the latest Labour Force
Survey (LFS) from Statistics South Africa, the country is creating
around 60 000 jobs per month.
After years of adjustments and pain of transforming an economy
into a global player, volatile Rand, tariff adjustments, political
transformation, etc., the South African economy is starting
to motor ahead - at last - in that it is creating jobs! To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: Sanctions against Libya are lifted
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The
EU has agreed to lift its embargo on the sale of arms to Libya,
after pressure from the Italian government. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Business: The full price of aids in Africa
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Famine
in Africa could worsen unless action is taken to tackle the
continent's HIV/Aids epidemic, a senior UN official said today.
"Unless urgent interventions are made, the epidemic
could cause a steady fall in agricultural production which would
fuel serious famine in African countries," said Peter
Piot, the executive director of the joint United Nations programme
to fight HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), speaking in Ethiopia. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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6. Business: Tourism to South Africa is Booming
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Foreign
exchange proceeds from tourism are now far higher than receipts
from gold exports, reflecting the growing importance of tourism
to the South African economy. In spite of the strong rand, foreign
visitors contribute R54bn, new study shows. To read this full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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7. Business: Wealthy individuals are the taxman's new targets
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Directors
of listed and large companies, and other high-earning executives
and asset-rich individuals in South Africa, should make sure
their tax affairs are in order - they are the taxman's new target.
The tax files of the country's "high net worth individuals"
(HNWI) are to be rounded up and sent to a central department
in the SA Revenue Service's (Sars) new Large Business Centre
(LBC) in Johannesburg. The centre already handles large corporate
taxpayers. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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8. Education: Elephant Trade in Africa
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BANGKOK
- African nations have announced a continent-wide plan to crack
down on their unregulated domestic ivory trades blamed for the
deaths of up to 12,000 elephants a year. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS DESK link. http://snipurl.com/elephants
Editor's
Note: The Delamere
Group are sponsors of the web site, http://www.BeautyWithoutCruelty.org
and many supporters are opposed to the slaughter of animals
solely for purposes of financial gain.
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9. Education: Nobel Peace Prize for Kenyan
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Kenyan
environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai
has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Mrs Maathai led a campaign called
the Green Belt Movement to plant tens of millions of
trees across Africa to slow deforestation. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: Well done Mrs Maathai, you have deservedly earned
your Peace Prize.
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10. Education: The Internet Public Library (IPL)
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The
IPL is the product of a graduate seminar at the School of
Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan
to explore "the interconnections of libraries, librarians,
and librarianship with a distributed networked environment."
The website offers library services via the Internet, including
digital reference service and collection management. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004.
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11. Global Trade: UK Prime Minister urges the world to
help Africa
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The
Prime Minister today urged the international community to turn
its attention towards Africa.
Mr Blair was speaking in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa,
where later today he will chair the second session of his Commission
for Africa. He told an audience:
"Armed with the evidence from the Commission for Africa
about what Africa needs and what has held back progress in the
past, I want to turn international attention on Africa into
international action to support Africa." To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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12. Immigration: H1-B Visa quota may increase
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NEW
DELHI: There could be good news for H1-B hopefuls yet. The
US Congress, which was to have wound up its year before the
elections on November 2, will be returning to work for a few
weeks from November 20, and among the crucial appropriations
legislation that will dominate proceedings, there is indication
that raising the cap on H1-B visas will be debated. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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13. Travel: Cape Town first choice for tourists
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Cape
Town continues to collect awards and accolades having just added
another jewel to her crown by being chosen as the best foreign
city in the UK's 2004 Telegraph Travel Awards. To read this
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: Visit the Delamere
Travel site, especially the pages on tours to Africa.
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14. Travel: Cape Town wins award from visitors
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Cape Town was rated the best city in the world for eating out
and came second after Sydney as the best overall destination
in the world in a recent poll of British
Airways staff. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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15. Travel: Tourism to the Cape, South Africa
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Declaring open skies is the only way Cape Town will achieve
its target of attracting 2.5 million tourists by 2013.
This is according to British
Airways General Manager, Charles Forsyth, who was addressing
a Cape Town Press Club lunch to mark the airline's 20th anniversary
of direct flights to the Mother City. To read this informative
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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This month's quote
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"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on
the way
we see them." ~ Leo Tolstoy, Author
