SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rent in Silicon Valley for high-tech commercial real estate fell almost 30 percent in 2002, extending a slide that began a year earlier, according to a study released on Thursday.

New Africa Developments, in partnership with black-owned company Roux Property Developments Africa, will be establishing another shopping centre for the Nkomazi area in Mpumalanga.

Old Mutual Properties (OMP) has contracted a retail specialist in what must be seen as a bid to help defuse tensions that have simmered,

Managers Tune Into Their Off-Site Teams.

The competition authorities have approved without reservation New Clicks' R281-million acquisition for New United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD), the wholesale distributor of pharmaceutical and front-shop products. The acquisition takes effect from 1 January 2003.

South Africa is making a serious play to attract the burgeoning international call-centre industry on the grounds that it is perfectly placed to cater for growing demand in industrialised and developing countries alike.

Whitey Basson is redrawing the retail map of Africa, his group operates stores all the way from Cape Town to Cairo Tanzanian acquisition takes groups tally to 13 countries outside SA, writes Gaenor Lipson.

ThisDay, a group of Nigerian investors who made an unsuccessful bid against Edgars Consolidated for some of the CNA stores in liquidation, has bought 71 CNA-branded stores that were never in liquidation.

Year-end results suggest that the firm may be out of the woods

Southgate Shopping Centre, a regional retail development in the south of Johannesburg, has emerged from a R79m expansion and refurbishment programme with a look designed to capture the attention of more affluent shoppers.