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StarTimes Group was founded in 1988 by Chinese engineer Pang Xinxing, [2] who is also the company's current chairman. In 2002, StarTimes began to expand its business to Africa. In 2007, it became the first digital television operator licensed by Rwanda. [2] As of 2020,, StarTimes has established distributors in 37 countries. [1]
Chinese South Africans are an ethnic group of Chinese diaspora in South Africa. They and their ancestors immigrated to South Africa beginning during the Dutch colonial era in the Cape Colony. Since 2000 an estimated 350,000 Chinese immigrations, most of whom came from mainland China, have settled in South Africa. [67]
China Chongqing International Construction Corporation (also known as CICO) is a Chinese construction and engineering company and subsidiary of Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Group Co., Ltd. (CFTEC) It is known as a project contractor for road building in Africa. [citation needed] The company has taken on several road projects ...
In the 1980s, the company began to diversify, launching a subscription television service and investing in markets outside of South Africa for the first time. In 2001, Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology firm Tencent and became increasingly focused on the global consumer internet sector. In 2019, Naspers listed its global ...
The company premiered in South Africa in 2006 when it won a 425-million rand public tender held by Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority, the state agency responsible for bulk water infrastructure. [1] The selection of COVEC was described by a local trade publication as unsettling to the other short listed bidders, two local construction consortia.
Discontinued its own line of mobile phones and became a national distributor for Chinese mobile brand Honor. [10] Canada: BlackBerry Limited: Ended smartphone production in 2016; brand licensing agreement with TCL Communication ended in 2020. China: Konka Indonesia: Mito Italy: Telit Malaysia: Ninetology. Now an electric bicycle branded as E-Nine
The China-Africa Development Fund (Chinese: 中非发展基金), more commonly known as CAD Fund, is a China Government Guidance Fund solely funded by China Development Bank, a Chinese government policy bank. The aim of the fund is to stimulate investment in Africa by Chinese companies in power generation, transportation infrastructure, natural ...
The first Chinese to settle in South Africa were prisoners, usually debtors, exiled from Batavia by the Dutch to their then newly founded colony at Cape Town in 1660. . Originally the Dutch wanted to recruit Chinese settlers to settle in the colony as farmers, thereby helping establish the colony and create a tax base so the colony would be less of a drain on Dut