Business digest: Florida estate law focus of event Nov 11, 2009
75-mile stretch of the Orange River east of Fort Myers. Congdon, a PGA professional and member of the Club Managers Association, oversees all management and operations for the 36-hole golf club, fitness and tennis center, its restaurant and bar and Blossom's community grill. (The News-Press -- Business)
Pasa gives licences to foreign oil firms Nov 6, 2009
In the Orange River basin off the West Coast, Pasa had accepted an application for exploration from Shell. In the Tugela basin, off KwaZulu-Natal's north coast, it accepted Silver Wave's application. (Business Report, South Africa)
Business Digest: Hope HealthCare CEO finalist for awards Oct 24, 2009
Shear Image is located at 13701 Orange River Blvd. at Buckingham Road. Ian Keith joins family insurance business. (The News-Press -- Business)
South Africa: Can Country Afford to Export Virtual Water? Sep 30, 2009
Kakamas Near the banks of the Orange River, farm manager Le Roux Viljoen sends off an SMS to a weather station and receives an almost instantaneous response telling him the temperature, wind direction and estimated evaporation index ... The Kakamas area in South Africa's Northern Cape province where the grapes are grown, however, receives minimal rainfall and farmers depend on water drawn from the Orange River, which receives water from the Lesotho highlands ... Even though the lower reaches of... (allAfrica.com)
Rockwell Announces Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2010 Jul 16, 2009
The Company has an excellent pipeline of brownfields projects, the majority of these being high level terraces on the south bank of the Middle Orange River, in the same area as its Saxendrift mine. Such terraces are typically represented by higher grades than lower terraces in the same area. (PR Newswire)
Port Orange ponders potential for reusing rain Jul 9, 2009
Using the Port Orange river outflow to the Halifax River to pump excess rainfall out of the Halifax Canal. Regional water improvements for the Halifax Canal Watershed, including pumps and retention ponds. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
Rockwell Announces Fiscal 2009 Results Jun 27, 2009
The Company was granted and was ceded the mining right for the Niewejaarskraal project, located on a high level terrace similar to Saxendrift in the Middle Orange River area ... As a result of restructuring at the Middle Orange River operations and suspension of operations at Wouterspan, some 143 employees were retrenched, and short term contracts for some 40 employees were not renewed. (PR Newswire)
Mine closures should put Trans Hex in profit May 28, 2009
Delport said this output would come from the firm's Baken mine on the Orange River and its two operations in the Richtersveld in the Northern Cape ... Last year Trans Hex sold the company's Middle Orange River operations and its deep water mining vessels stopped operations last April. (Business Report, South Africa)
A grave discovery Apr 18, 2009
Liz Eshmade, known as the Grave Lady by the Port Elizabeth press, has, with the help of school groups and other volunteers, recorded a comprehensive list of graveyard inhabitants in the greater Port Elizabeth area, and is in the process of publishing a second book which already covers over 16000 names in 230 cemeteries - from the Fish River to Port St. Johns and north to the Orange River. It should be out later this year. (iAfrica.com)
Marine adventures Apr 14, 2009
Canoeing and rafting Whether you believe that the Orange River was named after the folded, ochre mountains, the ginger-tinged water at sunset or the rising moon glowing gold with desert dust, few experiences compare with canoeing or rafting down this formidable river. The remote Kunene River in the north is another great area for canoeing and rafting enthusiasts. (iAfrica.com)
Malema eyes Orania visit Mar 26, 2009
Orania is about 164km from Kimberley and 200km from Bloemfontein on the southern bank of the Orange River. The village, originally built and used by the department of water affairs, stood empty and neglected for several years. (iAfrica.com)
