De Beers says its half-year production increased while sales were steady and said it anticipates that its full-year production will recover to be broadly in line with 2012 subject to market conditions. The South African company said production increased by nearly one million carats to 14.3 Mct (30 June 2012: 13.4 Mct) owing to improved ore grades at Orapa and Jwaneng Mines. Progress on the remediation programme following the Jwaneng mine slope failure that occurred in June 2012 continues, with full resolution expected in the third quarter of 2013. On the other hand, sales remained steady during the first half,…
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Eight of the very best chefs in Botswana will bring their sharpest knives, coolest nerves and hottest techniques to Jwaneng as they compete to be named two of the best chefs during a day-long competition on Friday, August 9th beginning at 08h00. The showdown, titled Chefs of Excellence, is a partnership between Debswana Jwaneng Mine and Camp Management Services Botswana (CMSB) and will be in its third installment since inception in 2011. The event will be hosted at Contractors’ Camp in Jwaneng. The chef competition is specifically targeting skills development and upliftment of local Batswana Chefs. The winners of this…
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the latest addition to the Exynos product family with top level of graphic performance driven by a six-core ARM® Mali™-T628 GPU processor for the first time in the industry. With mobile use case scenarios becoming increasingly complex, Samsung’s newest eight-core ARM Cortex™ application processor gives designers a powerful, energy efficient tool to build multifaceted user interface capabilities directly into the system architecture. Samsung will demonstrate the new Exynos 5 family at SIGGRAPH 2013 in the ARM booth, #357; Exhibit Hall C at the Anaheim Convention Center. …
World-class New Orleans jazz superstars will be performing at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz in August. This is a culmination of an ambitious project that has been in the offing for a long time. Performing at the festival is the acclaimed Satchmo Trumpet Summit featuring James Andrews, Kid Merv and Marlon Jordan as well as Father & Sons of the New Millennium with members of the world famous Batiste music family – David and his sons Damon, Ryan and Jamal. The New Orleans contingent will be performing at The Dance Factory in Newtown and sharing the stage with a powerhouse of South African female…
The perennial power outages are not only a menace to households, but it also affecting business confidence as it disrupts normal business activities. Dr Keith Jefferis and Thabelo Nemaorani wrote in Econsult Economic Review for the second quarter of the year (April-June) that one of the biggest detractors from economic performance and confidence in Q2 was the continuation of widespread electricity “load-shedding”, or power outages. “This has been highly disruptive across the private sector, with inevitable implications for costs and productivity,” the researchers said. Botswana faces its worst power crisis in history despite the P11 billion investments in the Morupule…
Tsodilo Resources Limited, the exploration company says it has hired Dr Alistair B. Jeffcoate as Project Manager / Chief Geologist to lead it metals exploration and resource development programs, particularly its’ iron ore project, in Botswana. Dr Jeffcoate spent his entire professional career with the Rio Tinto group of companies including Rio Tinto Iron Ore Atlantic and Rio Tinto Exploration. Immediately prior to accepting the position with Tsodilo, Alistair was Senior Geologist at Rio Tinto’s Simandou Project, Guinea West Africa (Iron Ore) where his key responsibilities were coordinating the activities of the large and complex resource evaluation and exploration department.…
Walkabout Resources Ltd, the Perth based African focused explorer has completed Stage 2 of the Earn-In obligations for its Takatokwane South Joint Venture with Triprop Energy Pty Ltd. The diversified copper, coal and platinum company now holds 40% of Triprop Energy Pty Ltd which in turn holds 100% of coal licences PL157/2009 and PL160/2009 in the Kweneng district of Botswana. Triprop Energy is a Botswana based private exploration company that holds exploration licences in the country. Pursuant to the agreement with Triprop and Walkabout’s election to proceed, Walkabout will now issue Triprop with 7,462,687 shares at $0.0067 per share and…
Brand Africa Global, an African network agency, is set to draw global attention to Gaborone as it launches its global African identity african.iam, along with its ‘200 Market’ concept and inaugural Botswana 200 Business Assembly at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) on 28-29 October 2013. The two-day event features the launch of african.iam in the evening of day one, 28 October and the Botswana 200 Business Assembly on 29 October, the second day of the event. The Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Brand Africa, Audra Wilson-Max says the african.iam is the identity of Africans; wherever and whoever they…
The Botswana’s CPI measured year-on-year inflation was last month within the Bank of Botswana’s objective range for the first time in many months bringing hope that the Central Bank will contain the numbers for the remainder of the year. The Central Statistics Botswana said in a monthly consumer price index update that major components in the basket softened pushing the figures down. The government’s statistics body said in June 2013, national annual inflation rate was 5.8 percent, a decrease of 0.3 of a percentage point from 6.1 percent recorded in May 2013 with the annual rate of 5.8 percent realised…
The predominant differentiator between mobile communication device manufacturers lies in capturing a happy medium between functionality and the value of content. Samsung works towards a smarter life for its customers by tuning in to what works for them says Thabiet Allie, Head of Content and Services for Samsung Africa. The development of a range of new content offerings, specifically for the African market, provides consumers with ready access to services that suit their lifestyles – whether music, sport or education services. “Samsung recognises that the African market is very different to that of its international counterparts. The ability to both…