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An exciting new competition for small business owners has been launched under the title of “Punk Your SME!”. The competition will invite South African small  business owners to motivate why their business deserves to be “punked” and receive a shot in the arm to raise their profile.

Webber Wentzel has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with leading West African law firm Bile-Aka, Brizoua-Bi & Associés, based in Côte d’Ivoire.
The deal is designed to offer a more complete solution to their respective clients’ needs in the OHADA region and further develop their regional law practices. 
OHADA – the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business [...]

Jan du Plessis the chairman of metals group Rio Tinto has distributed the following letter to shareholders as Australia contemplates its “super tax” on mining firms in the region:

Broad international investor participation in the Imara Group’s second annual Zimbabwe investment conference confirms the growing pull of Africa’s ‘frontier markets’, say the upbeat organisers.
Leading international fund managers have confirmed their attendance at the event in Harare on June 7 and 8, says Sean Gammon, MD of Harare-based Imara Capital Zimbabwe.

Jubilee and Mintek are pleased to announce the successful completion of the development programme for the ConRoast Smelting Process. In March 2010 the  demonstration DC-arc furnace passed the significant milestone of smelting 50 000 tons of material containing platinum group metals (“PGM”) as part of thedevelopment of ConRoast.

Eskom and BHP Billiton today announced that they have reached agreement on an amended power supply contract for the Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique. Discussions relating to the contracts for the supply of electricity to the Hillside and Bayside smelters in South Africa will continue over the coming months with the intention of concluding binding [...]

Standard Bank, South Africa’s largest warrant trading house, is the first local financial institution to launch platinum warrants to retail investors. Standard Bank will soon be launching commodity warrants on gold and oil.
Retail commodity warrants allow investors to access the global commodity market from South Africa. Warrant holders will have the opportunity to make a [...]

Local steel producers, to a large extent, held their own in 2009 despite of a number of them reporting down¬sizing and other survival measures. The severe downturn in the global economy was cushioned by the special circumstances regarding the construction of power stations and government’s low-cost housing and infrastructure spending.

JSE Main Board-listed construction materials supplier, Afrimat, today continued its positive growth trend when it announced the R35 million acquisition of the Glen Douglas dolomite mine from Exxaro Resources Limited.  The acquisition marks the first step in the group’s diversification into complementary industries in order to expand revenue streams, boost profitability and sustain growth in [...]