Some economists and farming groups have said the proposals could hit investment and production at a time when South Africa is emerging from a major drought.
Rising prices have brought investors — including hedge fund luminary George Soros — back into the market.
Martin Dolan, the head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said authorities “have to contemplate now the possibility” that the plane, which went missing in 2014, will not be found.
A tip-off from a CIA agent directly led to Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962.
Malaysia's transport minister said that officials from Malaysia, Australia and China will meet by June or July to "chart the future of the search."
Debris found on the shores of South Africa and Mauritius are said likely to have come from the missing jet.
The two pieces of debris were found independently on beaches at Mossel Bay, South Africa, and Rodrigues Island in Mauritius.
More than 40,000 square miles of the total search area of 46,332 square miles have so far been scoured, with operations expected to be called off in July.
The introduction of the bond notes does not signal the return of the defunct Zimbabwean dollar, which the country ditched in 2009.
The British lender said Thursday it has raised $873 million by selling a 12.2 percent stake in the Barclays Africa Group.
The move leaves just 31 accredited drug-testing labs left in the world, and none in Africa for the time being.
Australia has spent nearly $90 million scouring more than 40,000 sq. miles in a desperate attempt to find the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
The drought-racked southern African nation put its wild animals up for sale Tuesday in a bid to ease financial pressure on its national parks.
South African President Jacob Zuma is already facing calls for his resignation, but the High Court's ruling intensifies the pressure on him.
Nnamdi Okonkwo, managing director of Fidelity Bank PLC in Lagos, has been arrested by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency.
The U.S. automaker has turned around its European operation, and demand for its trucks is offsetting weakness in South America.
South Africa and Mozambique granted permission after recently found items were deemed “almost certainly” from a missing passenger jet.
In casting the film that premiers this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, the director could not have known how much star power he had at his disposal.
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Two pieces of airplane debris found on the Mozambique coast will be sent to Malaysia for further examination.
In March, the Constitutional Court of South Africa dismissed the former Olympian’s right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.