Environment ministers of the BASIC bloc -- Brazil, South Africa, India and China -- have said that a legally binding global agreement to limit climate change needed to be completed by 2011, noting that the world could not wait indefinitely for the US to finalise its legislation on the issue.
The head of the South African mobile phone giant with huge interests in Africa was lauded by analysts here for having led MTN to great heights, but some felt that Nhleko's two failed attempts at a deal with Bharti Airtel had tarnished his image.
South African President Jacob Zuma has acknowledged the role of the Indian community in his State of the Nation address at the opening of the Parliament in Cape Town.
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