The Chagos Islands are at the heart of an international sovereignty dispute
Attacks on queer activists from religious fundamentalists call the island’s tolerance into question as Pride is cancelled
Its been 13 years since Mauritius introduced codes of corporate governance for listed companies with mixed results.
The SA government’s official social media network could be bought by a foreign multinational.
Edith Chikwana now sells goods on Jo’burg’s streets to feed and educate her brothers and sister.
A new treaty makes it more difficult for companies to take advantage of tax loopholes to avoid their financial obligations.
No less than Madiba found balm for the soul in the magnificent milieu of Mauritius’s Le Saint Géran.
The ad-hoc nature of a double tax amendment could see companies moving elsewhere.
Amid allegations of animal cruelty, a ship carrying 3 500 head of cattle is expected to leave from East London this week bound for Mauritius.
A childhood fantasy to see Mauritius finally turns into a holiday: to Joonji Mdyogolo’s delight, it looks just like the poster.
Granted, the island country has made good use of the aid it received, but its economic position now is akin to that of Spain.
Moeletsi Mbeki’s former lover is fighting his attempt to evict her and her children from their R3-million home.
The fact that the small island nation is relatively prosperous is the product of a fortunate history.
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/ 24 January 2011
Highly sought after honeymoon destination Mauritius now has to fight to regain its good name following the murder of a newlywed in her hotel room.
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/ 12 January 2011
Three valets at a Mauritius hotel are being held by police over the death of the daughter of a top Irish sports personality, who was strangled.
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/ 3 November 2010
An SADC task team will report their findings about which digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard the region should adopt on November 22.
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/ 30 October 2009
Renting a villa in Mauritius is a refreshing change from pricey hotel packages, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 16 February 2009
The impact of the economic crisis is deepening and will hit developing nations particularly hard, Chinese President Hu Jintao warned on Monday.
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/ 22 January 2009
A recommendation that poor children have access to pre-primary education was taken up by the minister of finance in his June 2008 budget speech.
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/ 22 January 2009
Joint Special Award — Drivers of Change Government Award: The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in Mauritius.
Mauritius at present enjoys plentiful piped potable water from its 2 000mm average annual rainfall, but large amounts of water are wasted.
Jacob Zuma’s lawyers are planning to challenge a Mauritian court ruling refusing him the right to stop SA prosecutors securing evidence against him.
Sitting under a pair of mango trees and sipping coconut water, Toolsy Poorun (87) says he thought he would live in Terre Rouge forever. But then Chinese investment came to this part of Mauritius. Poorun, who lives in the suburbs of the Indian Ocean island’s capital Port Louis, now finds himself caught up in China’s African push.
A company owned by the ruler of Dubai plans to invest -million in Mauritius’s financial, real estate and tourism sectors ”over the coming years”, officials in the Indian Ocean nation said on Tuesday. The announcement was made by the Mauritian Board of Investment on its website.
South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki said he opposed a threatened African Union-backed assault by the Comoros archipelago’s troops against the rebel island of Anjouan, saying it should be given time for a poll. Hundreds of federal troops have amassed on nearby Moheli island vowing an imminent assault on hilly, wooded Anjouan.
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/ 23 October 2007
Mauritius wants to turn its economy into a regional information and communications technology (ICT) hub in the next few years, according to an official national strategic plan. Targets in the 2007 to 2011 plan include ”a 7% contribution into Mauritius gross domestic product from offshore ICT export services”.
Her blonde hair dripping with salt water, top Austrian kitesurfer Gabi Steidl cuts through the translucent, emerald green waves of the Indian Ocean. Kitesurfing — a hi-tech hybrid of surfing and kite-flying — is fast winning converts: riders harnessed to kites who stand on boards and skim, surf or even leap, often hanging in the air for several seconds.
Giant tortoises doze in the shade as rare lizards slip under bushes and endangered birds chatter in the sunlit trees overhead. On a small wooded island off southern Mauritius, environmentalists are trying to turn back time to an era before humans ever set foot on the volcanic Indian Ocean archipelago.
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/ 20 February 2007
In contrast to the rest of Southern Africa, intravenous drug users have become the group most vulnerable to the transmission of HIV in Mauritius. This has led the Mauritian government to introduce a syringe- and needle-exchange programme in a bid to stem HIV infection among Mauritian drug users.
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/ 28 November 2006
Fifteen years after they first came to Mauritius, ”guest workers” from China, India and Bangladesh still face resistance to their efforts to improve the difficult conditions under which they live and work under. About 30Â 000 foreign workers, more than half of them women, are working in Mauritius.
Gay and lesbian people on the conservative Indian Ocean island of Mauritius said on Tuesday they want protection against discrimination built into new human rights legislation. Although Mauritian law does not explicitly outlaw homosexuality, gay people here complain of rampant social discrimination.
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/ 20 February 2006
Mauritius may be one of the world’s most glamorous destinations, but agriculturally speaking, there’s not that much of it to go around. As a result, the island’s government and farmers have begun looking west — to the far larger, neighbouring island of Madagascar. For the Malagasy administration, this holds out the promise of increased investment.