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Massmart Holdings Limited is a South African firm that owns local brands such as Game, Makro, Builder's Warehouse and CBW.It is the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, the largest retailer of general merchandise, liquor and home improvement equipment and wholesaler of basic foods. [4]
ArcelorMittal South Africa is part of the steel company Arcelor-Mittal. [1] [2] The company was originally Iscor Ltd., a South African parastatal steel company. It was founded in 1928 and was first listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in 1989. In January 2025 it announced that it would be shutting down steel operations in Newcastle and ...
"Construction and related design aspects of a large span concrete arch bridge". The Civil Engineer in South Africa. 26 (4). South African Institution Of Civil Engineering (SAICE): 189– 204. hdl:10520/AJA10212019_18860. ISSN 1021-2000. Morgan, Alastair (May 2020). "BERRT 2019 – Eastern Cape: A celebration of South African bridge engineering ...
Makro had also expanded to the United States in the mid-1980s. In 1989, Kmart bought the US locations, [2] and converted most of them to Pace Warehouse in 1990. Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro ...
Cameroon is a country in Central Africa. Cameroon's per-capita GDP (Purchasing power parity) was estimated as US$2,300 in 2008, [1] one of the ten highest in sub-Saharan Africa. [2] Major export markets include France, Italy, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom. [1] Cameroon is aiming to become an emerging country by 2035.
The main house of the Groot Constantia vineyard near Cape Town, South Africa.. Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style primarily found in the Western Cape of South Africa, though modern adaptations have been constructed in regions such as Western Australia and New Zealand, typically on wine estates.
The Old Mutual business has a long history. In 1845 John Fairbairn (a Scot) founded "The Mutual Life Assurance Society of the Cape of Good Hope" in Cape Town.Over the next 100 years the business was to evolve significantly, changing its name in 1885 to the "South Africa Mutual Life Assurance Society", but becoming familiarly known simply as "The Old Mutual", so as to distinguish it from newer ...
The Hole-in-the-Wall is an extraordinary natural arch.The formation consists of a tidal island containing a natural arch that takes the form of a hole pierced through a wall of sandstone and shale by the waves of the sea located at the mouth of the Mpako River, about 8 km due south of Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast Region, Eastern Cape in South Africa.