Phillips SA Light Bulb Factory
and the factory goes to.... Lesotho. It seems official that the factory will be built. AllAfirca story here.
More details from iafrica.
Weekly trade journal Engineering News reported that construction of the facility has already begun in Maseru and the first bulbs are expected to be released to South African and other African markets in September.
The plant was expected to create between 400 and 500 direct jobs and additional work in South Africa associated with the transport, shipping, packaging and components production.
SA Tourism Numbers True Lie
Apparently refugees from Lesotho looking for work are not tourists as they have no money... Details here.
"This is very unfortunate," said Koblmiller. "Every day we read reports that nearly nine million tourists are coming to South Africa every year, when, in fact, the numbers of true tourists from Europe, Asia and the Americas are declining."Posted by marty at March 30, 2008 11:53 PM