Tag: South Africa

• Friday, December 6th 2013 - 07:10 UTC

  World joins in grief and admiration for South Africa's greatest, Madiba

  

  Former South African president and hero of the anti-apartheid movement, Nelson Mandela, has passed away in his home following a long fight against illness, current head of state Jacob Zuma revealed on Thursday in a press conference.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2013 - 21:19 UTC

  BRICS summit decides ‘formal negotiations’ to create a development bank

  

  The leaders of the five BRICS nations stopped short of establishing a highly-promoted development bank at this week’s summit in South Africa, instead saying they would enter “formal negotiations” on the issue. But the summit did yield some agreements, including big-money bilateral trade deals.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2013 - 19:26 UTC

  Sea adventure of a lifetime: crew member of a schooner along the Brazilian coast and across to South Africa

  

  Want to run away to sea? Two incredible Dutch classic tall ships are seeking training crew for an around-the-world sailing voyage following historic trade routes on an epic adventure. Last minute Voyage Crew places are available on a historic journey to sail the old trade routes around the world and the three southern capes during March & April 2013.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  “Technical issues” delaying Argentine Navy vessel departure from South Africa

  

  The Argentine Navy said that repair works in the corvette ARA Espora, which has been stranded in South Africa for over five weeks “are 65% completed” and denied there were any debts pending with the German company that is responsible for the maintenance of the MEKO class corvettes as was reported earlier in the Buenos Aires press.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 01:52 UTC

  Africa and Latin America Still Fight Vulture Funds

  

  By Hector Timerman - Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman underlined Argentina’s struggle against paying ‘vulture funds’ in an article written for US newspaper Huffington Post about how Latin American and Africa are affected by these funds.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2012 - 04:07 UTC

  South African minister admits a second Argentine navy vessel could be impounded

  

  When Argentina still has not recovered from the impounding of the Navy’s flagship, ARA Libertad, retained in Ghana, another piece of bad news was confirmed in Pretoria on Friday when South African Foreign minister admitted that a second navy vessel, ARA Espora, docked in Simonstown was exposed to a similar fate.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  NML-Capital targeting second Argentine navy vessel docked in South Africa

  

  A second Argentine navy vessel has been targeted by NML-Capital which apparently has contracted a renowned South African law office to impound the corvette ARA Espora.

• Saturday, October 20th 2012 - 04:56 UTC

  Second Argentine Navy vessel retained in Africa

  

  A second Argentine Navy vessel remains retained in Africa, although this time because of mechanical problems. So far this month the Argentine navy has suffered the ‘loss’ of three of its units: two corvettes and the training frigate ARA Libertad.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentina blasts WTO for its biased and tendentious reports on world trade

  

  The Argentine government, together with Brazil, India and South Africa questioned the inclination, almost bias, of some trade measures elaborated by the World Trade Organization Director General.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 - 02:50 UTC

  Mandela’s eldest daughter South Africa’s ambassador to Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina has handed Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, credentials as South Africa’s ambassador to Buenos Aires, the foreign ministry said on Monday.