Cape Town News
Burkina Faso plans social fund from gold revenue
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Burkina Faso plans to create a social development fund from the government's tax and royalty revenue from gold mining, the country's mines minister said on Wednesday. "It would come from the revenue of gold," Salif Kabore told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Cape Town called the Investing in African Mining Indaba. He said the fund would go toward ...
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 3:23 pm
Cape Town woman vanishes
Police, family and friends are frantically hunting for a 55-year-old woman from Tokai in Cape Town who went missing three days ago.
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 11:55 am
Cape Town, alone in Africa, chases gay tourist dollars
Perfectly sculpted bodies lie poolside at The Glen, a guesthouse that's the first listing on the Pink Map to Cape Town, handed out at the airport for the 225,000 gay tourists who visit every year.
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 10:02 am
Zambia to audit miners, believes up to $1 bln owed
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Top African copper producer Zambia plans to audit all its mining houses in a bid to dig for back taxes of up to $1 billion it estimates it is owed, its mines minister said on Tuesday. Such a policy by the government of populist president Michael Sata would widen an initiative launched by the previous administration and comes against the backdrop of a surge of resource ...
Posted on 7 February 2012 | 4:17 pm
Two Cape Town ATMs bombed
A group of men has bombed two ATMs in Cape Town and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, Western Cape police say.
Posted on 7 February 2012 | 4:02 pm
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Burkina Faso plans to create a social development fund from the government's tax and royalty revenue from gold mining, the country's mines minister said on Wednesday. "It would come from the revenue of gold," Salif Kabore told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Cape Town called the Investing in African Mining Indaba. He said the fund would go toward ...
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 3:23 pm
Cape Town woman vanishes
Police, family and friends are frantically hunting for a 55-year-old woman from Tokai in Cape Town who went missing three days ago.
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 11:55 am
Cape Town, alone in Africa, chases gay tourist dollars
Perfectly sculpted bodies lie poolside at The Glen, a guesthouse that's the first listing on the Pink Map to Cape Town, handed out at the airport for the 225,000 gay tourists who visit every year.
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 10:02 am
Zambia to audit miners, believes up to $1 bln owed
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Top African copper producer Zambia plans to audit all its mining houses in a bid to dig for back taxes of up to $1 billion it estimates it is owed, its mines minister said on Tuesday. Such a policy by the government of populist president Michael Sata would widen an initiative launched by the previous administration and comes against the backdrop of a surge of resource ...
Posted on 7 February 2012 | 4:17 pm
Two Cape Town ATMs bombed
A group of men has bombed two ATMs in Cape Town and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, Western Cape police say.
Posted on 7 February 2012 | 4:02 pm