Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
S Africa defends handling of crisis at power utilityBy Richard Lapper in Johannesburg Published: November 27 2009 02:00 | Last updated: November 27 2009 02:00South Africa's public enterprise minister has strongly defended the government's handling of the management crisis at Eskom, the beleaguered state-owned power utility, and said plans to secure extra funding - including possible equity...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Mining offers hope for Zimbabwe businessBy Richard Lapper at the Freda Rebecca Mine, Zimbabwe Published: November 12 2009 16:25 | Last updated: November 12 2009 16:25After three years of silence, the din of dump trucks and conveyor belts fills the air at the Freda Rebecca mine 50 miles to the north west of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital.Struggling to make himself heard as 30 tons of gold-bearing...
Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Financial Times, Richard Lapper Here we go again! Mosagrius déjà vue. Anyone remembers how president Chissano and president Mandela agreed to invite South African farmers to Niassa some time 1998? That project failed because of corruption on the South African side.
