Knight Frank, a global property company with 209 offices in 47 countries across six continents handling in excess of US$755 billion worth of commercial, agricultural and residential real estate transactions annually, has launched Knight Frank Commercial in SA

JSE-listed construction firm Group Five continues to be dogged by contract problems outside SA, forcing it to stop work worth millions of rand.

TEN companies have expressed interest in the construction of the multi-million dollar Bujagali dam in Uganda, reports News Vision from Kampala. Construction is expected to start next year.          

The World Bank has endorsed key projects for the improvement of infrastructure in East Africa, including the construction of a power line between Nairobi and Arusha in Tanzania, and a road from Mombasa to Malaba in Uganda.

Lender disbursed R1,8bn last year.

New rail strategy in Eastern Cape to bring heavy haulers on track, and link up with the port and planned industrial zone in East London

Report says political environment and HIV/AIDS are the main problems 

Uganda moved swiftly to calm jittery investors in the telecommunications sector after a confidential memo by President Yoweri Museveni suggesting the government might go back on its agreements with MTN Uganda and Uganda Telecom (UTL) became public. 

South Africa's increased growth this year hinges on SA's economic recovery, which is moving at a slow pace.