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/ 1 November 2007
Four years on, a Mozambique-South African gas pipeline is fuelling economic growth and regional cooperation in Southern Africa. It challenges Western assumptions of a natural-resources "curse" in Africa and offers evidence that the New Partnership for Africa’s Development is beginning to deliver on its promises.
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/ 17 October 2007
A strike by 2 000 workers at Sasol, the world’s biggest maker of fuel from coal, entered its fourth day on Wednesday, reducing coal output at its mines, but fuel production was unaffected. The workers, a third of the workforce at the mines, downed their tools on Friday at the five coal mines in Secunda.
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/ 15 October 2007
About a third of the workforce at Sasol Mining near Secunda have begun a protected strike over wage increases, Sasol said on Monday. Sasol spokesperson Johann van Rheede said workers downed tools at Sasol’s five mines in Mpumalanga last Friday, continuing on Monday. The workers are members of the United People’s Union of South Africa.
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/ 10 October 2007
Sasol and a conservation group clashed on Wednesday, with the petrochemical giant denying building in an environmentally sensitive area without permission. Environment and Conservation Association chairperson Nicole Barlow accused Sasol of erecting luxury offices, without authorisation, along the Natalspruit River in Germiston on Gauteng’s East Rand.