Anglo American Platinum has said it will cease production at four mine shafts in the Rustenburg region of South Africa, which could lead to the loss of almost 14, 000 jobs.
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Earlier this month, Anglo American Platinum said it would cease production at four mine shafts in the Rustenburg region of South Africa, which could lead to the loss of almost 14, 000 jobs.
For the event, 1, 000 students aged 15 to 18 tested water quality in the Cape region of South Africa from 22 to 25 March, measuring salinity and acidity, and learning how it is filtered and distilled.
Workers at three Amplats mines in the Rustenburg region of South Africa, where most of the jobs are expected to go, downed tools in protest against the cuts on Wednesday, although only one of the three mines affected has been earmarked for closure.
Over the years, he has traveled to India, Sri Lanka, China, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sumatra and South Africa, spending weeks in a region doing three tastings a day, with 200 cups per tasting.
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The simmering guerilla campaign continued for 22 years, when South Africa agreed to end administration of the region under a U.N. peace plan.
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About 40, 000 of these travelers settled in Cape Town, South Africa, lured by reports of the region's rich diamond and gold mines, but their immigration coincided with the rise of feathers in fashion, and South Africa already had domesticated ostriches who produced some of the highest-ranked feathers in the world.
The region's giant, South Africa, was largely protected by its isolation from the rest of the world during the apartheid years.
He also happens to hail from the Eastern Cape, a region that bred both of South Africa's post-apartheid presidents, Mr Mandela and Mr Mbeki.
Free trade in the region will not happen without South Africa.
Wal-Mart intends to support plans laid out by Massmart, involving constructing 140 stores during the next three years within South Africa, and another ten elsewhere in the region.
The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says that coming from South Africa - the most powerful country in the region - the ANC statement is a further sign of Mr Mugabe's growing isolation.
It focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Andean region.
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The two sub-species of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) have a population in the region of 20, 000 in South Africa alone.
Namibia's troubled history continued deep into the 20th century: in 1920 the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its apartheid laws on the region after 1948.
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The hearings should have been more substantive because the United States is at a dangerous inflection point in North Africa and the Sahel region to its south, and leaders in both parties need to think carefully about how deeply we want to get involved in this volatile part of the world.
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He served as senior trade development representative in the Africa, Near East, South Asia (ANESA) region during the Reagan Administration.
The Amplats news has some market watchers edgy because it was just last year that strikes in South Africa, much of it focused in the platinum-producing region of Rustenburg, caused production losses and pushed prices higher.
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"The employment of members of (South Africa's military) to CAR is one of the efforts that South Africa is making to bring about peace and stability in the region, " said the South African statement, which was released through government spokesman Mac Maharaj.
"South Africa has made enormous progress over the past two decades, to the extent that it is now the region's economic powerhouse and Britain's biggest trading partner in Africa, " she said.
Presidents and Prime Ministers from Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Ruanda joined Kofi Annan in a very interesting dialogue on the overall progress on governance in the region and the structures for economic development.
Like the U.S. and other Western countries, China is determined to diversify its energy supplies away from the volatile Middle East region where it currently gets 60 percent of its oil, to areas in Africa, South America and even North America.
Jan Willem Eggink, Shell's South Africa general manager for exploration, says the company needs to explore to determine how it could extract gas from the region.
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