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Premier has launched Blue Ribbon Bread in the Eastern Cape by opening its first bakery in Port Elizabeth. Read more >> | The recent ruling to protect the rooibos trademark under the Geographical Indicators framework of South Africa's intellectual property laws is a major step in protecting SA products... Read more >> | Consumer and industrial research specialist, BMi Research, yesterday, 4 August, announced FoneWorx had acquired a minority equity share in the business, effective 31 July 2014. Read more >> |
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 | The Diageo Reserve World Class Global Final is an annual luxury week where the Diageo Reserve World Class Bartender of the Year is announced. For the first time, it will... Read more >>
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 | The International Hotel School's (IHS) Ultimate School Cook Off competition to find the best school chef in Grade 11 or 12 will result in winners earning a share of R300,000 in prizes, including a trip to London. Read more >>
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 | Bekezela Phakathi The Right2Know Campaign has claimed "partial victory" in the legal wrangle between the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) and the City of Cape Town. Read more >>
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 | General Electric (GE) says it will invest $2bn in facility development‚ skills training and sustainability initiatives across Africa by 2018. Read more >>
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 | David Furlonger Strong seasonal buying by car-rental companies helped minimise the drop in new-car sales in July. Read more >>
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 | RCL Foods (RCL) expects to swing to a full-year headline loss‚ affected by transaction costs associated with the acquisitions of Foodcorp Holdings and TSB Sugar. Read more >>
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|  | NEW YORK CITY, US: New categories launched for 2015: Augmented Reality, Technology, Social TV, Website, and Luxury Items. Read more >>
|  | WASHINGTON - LinkedIn has agreed to pay nearly $6m in backpay and damages to 359 current and former employees after a US investigation found it had failed to pay them properly for overtime work. Read more >>
|  | WASHINGTON, USA: Google defended its policy of electronically monitoring users' content for child sexual abuse and it tipped off police in Texas who arrested a child pornography suspect. Read more >>
|  | NEW YORK, USA: Microsoft is suing its long-time partner Samsung, accusing the South Korean company of breaching a contract over licensing of technology used in the smartphone market. Read more >>
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More International
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|  | KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu has asked on architects and stakeholders in the architectural fraternity to work with the provincial government to realise the objectives of the Provincial Growth and Development Plan (PGDP). Read more >>
|  | Chris Bathembu President Jacob Zuma asked for the support of American business to ensure that South Africa does not get excluded from African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA), the preferential trade programme that was enacted in 2000 to boost and diversify African trade with the US. Read more >>
|  | R2K Western Cape has rejected SANRAL's refusal to allow even limited transparency in the matter of proposed e-tolls in the Western Cape. Read more >>
|  | Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor has commended the participation of South African schools in global science competitions, saying they were nurturing the country's future researchers and innovators. Read more >>
|  | Chris Bathembu Africa needs to form partnerships with the developed nations in order to realise the continent's goal to industrialise, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said . Read more >>
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More Government news
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|  | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor In their ongoing showroom war for the hearts, minds and wallets of the South African motoring public the three luxury German carmakers between have nearly 400 different models on the battle ground trying to out-pace and out-grace their opponents. Read more >>
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