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<p>This Focus On puts the spotlight on partnerships that use seed funding to fund the on-going African green energy transition projects. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Fifi Peters is joined by Johan Marnewick, Head of Credit Alternatives at Stanlib and Asanda Tsotsi, Head of Project and Export Finance at Standard Bank CIB on insights to into the Khanyisa Energy Fund as part of Standard Bank&#8217;s journey to fund Africa&#8217;s green energy transition.</p>


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Focus On: Private Partnerships for Green Funding

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<p>Tourism leaders from across Africa gathered at the Tourism Investment Forum Africa, held in Cape Town, to explore how tourism can be a key driver towards expanding growth and opportunity in African economies. CNBC Africa spoke Barba Gaoganediwe, Head of Destination Marketing and Communications at Gauteng Tourism on how to leverage Gauteng as a tourism investment destination.</p>


Focus On: Opportunities for Tourism Investment in Gauteng

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<p>A number of developing countries look to tourism as an avenue for economic development. CNBC Africa speaks to Joy Priya Somasundram, Principal: FDI Strategies at the Financial Times and Dianna Martin, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Northern Cape Tourism Authority on how Africa can unlock opportunities for growth in this sector.</p>


Focus On: Africa’s Tourism Investment Case

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<p>Tourism, a vital contributor to the economies of many countries around the world, could be a possible solve to Africa&#8217;s economic challenges. CNBC Africa speaks to Dr Geoffrey Manyara, economic Affairs Officer for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa for more.</p>


Focus On: Expanding Africa’s Tourism Horizon

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<p>CNBC Africa puts the Focus On opportunities for mining in Africa, and embracing the power of positive disruption &#8211; coming from the 30th Mining Indaba in Cape Town.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode looks at fostering sustainability as well as reducing operational costs within African mining. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Dewald Rademeyer spoke with Francisco Baudrand, CEO of Enaex Africa, a company that provides explosives needed to execute the blasting process.</p>


Focus On Mining Indaba: Fostering Sustainability in Mining

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<p>CNBC Africa is in Cape Town for the 2024 Mining Indaba. In this episode of Focus On we hear from Nedbank about trends in battery minerals in Africa as well as sustainable practices to ensure responsible sourcing.</p>


Nedbank Focus On Mining Indaba: Mining Trends & Outlook

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<p>From the 30th Mining Indaba held in Cape Town, we put the Focus On the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone. Topics covered include the need for good governance, enhancing the local value chain to develop Africa&#8217;s export infrastructure.</p>


Focus On: Exploring the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone

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<p>From the 30th Mining Indaba in Cape Town, we look at the effect of at mineral export bans on investment opportunities and finding a balance between reducing mineral exports and feeding global demand.</p>


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<p>As Small Medium and Micro companies are seen as the key to South Africa’s economic recovery- the city of Cape Town has set up mechanisms to support such companies. White investment was subdued in 2020 due to COVID-19, it has been imperative to invest into start-ups. Joining CNBC Africa for this discussion are James Vos, MMC for Economic Opportunities in the City of Cape Town, Anton Baumann Executive Director of Empowerment Capital and Katlego Maphai Co-founder &#038; CEO of Yoco.</p>


How can South Africa expand its start-up economy?

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<p>As we continue through lock-down, co-operation and support between commercial landlords and tenants have been key, in order to ensure South Africa’s most successful Central Business District will survive this period. Landlords in Cape Town have moved swiftly to provide relief and advice, to support tenants battling to stay afloat amid stringent lock-down regulations. Rob Kane, Chairperson of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>CAPE TOWN (Reuters) &#8211; The head of Cecil Rhodes has been chopped away from a bust of the 19th century colonialist at a monument on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, park rangers said on Tuesday.</p>



<p>The bust housed at the top of a flight of steps at the Rhodes Memorial shows Rhodes with his arms folded. His right hand now cups what would have been his cheek &#8211; only with most of his face and head missing.</p>



<p>Lauren Clayton, a spokeswoman for South African National Parks in the Western Cape, said rangers patrolling Table Mountain came across the disfigured bust during regular patrols on Monday.</p>



<p>The incident likely occurred on Sunday night or Monday morning, she added. She said no one had claimed responsibility.</p>



<p>Thousands of protesters have marched across the United States and Europe calling for the removal of monuments seen as glorifying the imperialist nature of countries such as Britain.</p>



<p>Rhodes, who made his fortune in South African diamond mining, has become a lightning rod for anti-colonial anger since students forced the University of Cape Town in 2015 to remove his statue from its campus.</p>



<p>Completed in 1912, Rhodes Memorial consists of massive granite steps, flanked by bronze lions, and a rider astride a bronze horse at the beginning of the steps which leads to the top where the bust is situated, with an inscription beneath.</p>



<p>“It has been vandalised before, multiple times &#8230; At this stage we are still unclear about the reasoning behind the vandalism,” Clayton said.</p>



<p>Last month students at Britain’s Oxford University called for a Rhodes statue to be removed, triggered in part by protesters in the port city of Bristol tearing down a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston and throwing it into the harbour.</p>


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<p>CAPE TOWN (Reuters) &#8211; At a centuries-old vineyard overlooked by South Africa’s Drakenstein mountain, the country’s biggest single wine exporter Distell is battling a problem of plenty.</p>



<p>Prestigious wines, such as Nederburg, are bottled at the vineyard in Paarl, just outside Cape Town, and shipped locally and worldwide.</p>



<p>But the shipping can’t keep pace with the combined impact of an abundant harvest and lockdown disruption that has led to a glut that sits maturing in French oak barrels or stored in metal vats at wine estates.</p>



<p>South Africa, one of the top 10 wine producers, has around 240 million litres of stock across the industry, said executives at Distell, which itself has 40 million litres.</p>



<p>“It is a massive problem&#8230; that could take at least two years to resolve,” Distell CEO Richard Rushton said.</p>



<p>He told an investor call in June the impact on prices in the industry could be severe and said the company had lost some of its listings in wine outlets abroad as exports were halted.</p>



<p>South Africa also banned domestic alcohol sales as part of lockdown restrictions begun in March. Early in June it allowed sales during limited trading hours, but President Cyril Ramaphosa reimposed a sales ban from July 13 as new infections surged.</p>



<p>Industry body Vinpro said some 3 billion rand ($177.54 million) in sales had been lost in the first nine weeks of restrictions. Exports have resumed, but there is a backlog in the Cape Town port, it said.</p>



<p>Rushton said Distell hoped online sales would help and it has also begun producing alcohol-based sanitisers.</p>



<p>Even in the best of times, managing wine stocks in finite cellar space requires thinking a few moves ahead, but not usually as many.</p>



<p>“When you start off with oversupply, then it’s chess from day one,” Distell’s head winemaker Niel Groenewald said.</p>



<p>He faces a situation unprecedented in his two decades of experience and perhaps since the founding of the Nederburg estate in 1791.</p>


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South Africa’s Distell plays chess to beat lockdown wine glut

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On the side-lines of the Mining Indaba in Cape Town, CNBC Africa’s Chris Bishop sat down with John Volanthen, Cave and Rescuer and Marco Pagnini, Operational Risk Director DuPont Sustainable Solutions to discuss mine safety and whether the mining industry is investing enough in looking after its workers.</p>


#MiningIndaba2020: Is the mining industry investing enough to protect its workers?

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CNBC Africa&#8217;s Chris Bishop spoke to David Urqhurt, the Bishop of Birmingham from the Church of England about ethical investing in mining at the just ended Mining Indaba in Cape Town.</p>


#MiningIndaba2020: Church of England’s David Urqhurt on ethical investing in mining

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The runner-up for last year&#8217;s Investment Battlefield, Walter Shamu, Chief Operating Officer of Orion Minerals says the format of the Investment Battlefield made his pitch even more exciting. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Chris Bishop caught up with him at the Mining Indaba to get more insight on the funds raised since last year.</p>


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CNBC Africa&#8217;s Chris Bishop spoke with Minister of Trade and Industry for Canada, Mary Ng on how Canada plans to deepen trade ties with South Africa and the rest of the continent.</p>


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Focus On: Exploring the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone

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Why office space is making a comeback despite COVID-19

Cecil Rhodes loses his head in Cape Town

South Africa’s Distell plays chess to beat lockdown wine glut

#MiningIndaba2020: Is the mining industry investing enough to protect its workers?

#MiningIndaba2020: Church of England’s David Urqhurt on ethical investing in mining

#MiningIndaba2020: Orion’s Walter Shamu on role of the Investment Battlefield in empowering junior miners

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