In April 2009, amidst fears that South Africa would soon join much of the rest of the world in recession, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel differed on the matter: whereas Manuel foresaw a quarter of economic growth, Mboweni predicted further decline: " technically ," he said, " that's a recession.

King Manuel wrote two letters in which he described Vasco da Gama's first voyage, in July and August 1499, soon after the return of the ships.

In fact, very soon after Queen Anne's death, Richard opened negotiations with John II of Portugal for a double marriage alliance, by which he would have married the king's sister, Joanna, and Elizabeth their cousin, the future Manuel I.

But Manuel died soon afterwards and confusion followed.

Not all were unaware ; Colonel Delgado was concerned with the laxness and General Manuel Fernández Castrillón, who at the Alamo had tried to save a small band of Texian defenders, desperately tried to mount an organized resistance, but was soon shot down and killed.

Also the Seljuk Sultan was keen for peace to be restored as soon as possible ; he sent an envoy named Gabras, together with gifts of a Nisaean warhorse and a sword, to Manuel in order to negotiate a truce.

Because of his Spanish temperament Manuel Ortega soon became known as the Austrian Ricky Martin, although his talents include song writing as wel

However, in 1910 Samuel Zemurray's Cuyamel Fruit Company purchased these 5, 000 acres, but soon branched out, both with more land and with political and tax concessions, especially after Zemurray installed Manuel Bonilla in office as president using mercenaries hired in the area and abroad.

By the summer of 1933, two of old wartime subordinates of Calles had risen to the top of the party: Manuel Pérez Treviño and Lázaro Cárdenas Calles sought to have Trevino be the party's nominee at the time, seeing that he would be the most likely to continue his policies, but soon caved into pressure from party officials and agreed to support the popular land reformer Cárdenas as the PNR's presidential candidate in the 1934 Mexican Presidential election.

He soon returned to Seville, and opened a shop on the calle Cerrageria No. 7 that he shared with Manuel Soto y Solares.

He would soon retire and come back to the house of his family, where he lived with regular trips to Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña ( Corunna ), where he visited a library called a Cova Céltica, debating with Martínez Salazar, Manuel Murguía, Florencio Vaamonde, Martelo Paumán, Urbano Lugris and others.

Manuel Fernández eventually purchased much of the property adjoining his land and soon became the richest man in Bayamon.

Manuel Méndez Ballester, a well known playwright, who worked as a writer for the radio station, would frequently visit the supermarket and Suárez's father soon became friends with Ballester.

To both their fortune, Manuel has not wanted to get involved in the legal matters of this, however, the truth will be known soon ... to everyone, legally, and the fans.

Renier arrived in Constantinople in autumn 1179 and soon afterwards accompanied Manuel on a military expedition.

He soon adopted Portugal as his home country and his skills earned him the appointment by King Manuel I of Portugal as Alcaide menor ( mayor ) of Lisbon in 1496.

To prevent further slaughter, acting Governor and Captain-General Archbishop Manuel Rojo surrendered the citadel and the port of Cavite as soon as the city fell, promising four million Mexican silver dollars for ransom of the town, lives, and of the property therein.

Established by Manuel Pacaya – Samiria -- a leader of the Cocama peoples following the 1830 uprising at the Jesuit mission of Lagunas, Nauta soon became the primary commercial hub of the Peruvian selva baja ( known also as Omagua, or the Amazonian lowlands ) ( See William Smyth and Frederick Lowe, 1836: 204, 258 ).

The town soon became home to a number of abattoirs and, following the 1829 advent of the regime of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, whose family interests centered around cattle-raising, a close alliance developed between the governor and Pergamino's most prominent families, the Acevedos and the Anchorenas.

In 1894 he published his Manuel de diplomatique, a monument of lucid and well arranged erudition, which contained the fruits of his long experience of archives, original documents and textual criticism ; and his pupils, especially those at the École des Hautes Etudes, soon caught his enthusiasm.

Storni soon became acquainted with other writers such as José Enrique Rodó and Amado Nervo, and established friendships with José Ingenieros and Manuel Ugarte.

In the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924 a team composed by Juan Miles, Enrique Padilla, Juan Nelson, Arturo Kenny, G. Brooke Naylor and A. Peña obtained the gold medal ; this also occurred in Berlín 1936 with players Manuel Andrada, Andrés Gazzotti, Roberto Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Juan Nelson, Diego Cavanagh and Enrique Alberdi.

Christopher de Haro, the financier of the expedition, bears witness to the trip to La Plata ( Rio da Prata ) and the news of the " White King " to the interior and west, the Inca emperor-and the axe of silver obtained from the natives and offered to the king Manuel I.

The descendents of Ursiana Manuel are still living on the original land grant obtained by him during the Spanish domination of Louisiana.

Integrated in the Popular Front ahead of the 1936 election, the party won 87 seats becoming the third largest party while Manuel Azaña obtained the office of President of the Council of Minister.

In this battle the Venezuelan patriots, led by Manuel Piar, obtained a great victory against the Spanish general Juan Domingo de Monteverde.

Manuel da Nobrega studied Humanities at Porto and Salamanca, Spain and at the University of Coimbra, where he obtained his baccalaureate in Canon law and philosophy, in 1541.

King Manuel originally funded the project with money obtained from the Vintena da Pimenta, a 5 % tax on commerce from Africa and the Orient, equivalent to of gold per year, with the exception of pepper, cinnamon and cloves ( which went directly to the Crown.

Madame de Staël obtained his release from Louis Pierre Manuel just before the September Massacres.

* People's Alliance ( AP, Alianza Popular ), right-wing party, formed by ex-franquists and led by Manuel Fraga, obtained 16 seats.

Andrade obtained 406, 610 votes against the favorite of the opposition, general José Manuel Hernández, known as El Mocho, that only obtained 2, 203 ; the elections were labeled as fraudulent.

Months later occupied the Direction of the Agricultural Bank and in 1910 he obtained the tenure of the Supreme Court of Justice, along with Francisco C. Chávez and Manuel Burgos.

In 1910, he obtained a position as a member of the Parliament, but after Manuel Gondra was overthrown he left the country.

The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors who had grown corrupt under the safety and opulence of Manuel I rule.

Andrés Segovia commissioned works from Spanish composers such as Federico Moreno Torroba and Joaquín Rodrigo, Italians such as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Latin American composers such as Manuel Ponce of Mexico.

Depiction of the Crux ( labelled ' Las Guardas ') by physician-astronomer Mestre João Faras in his letter of May 1, 1500, to King Manuel I of Portugal from the newly discovered land of Brazil

When the team fell out of contention in mid -, Shapiro fired manager Charlie Manuel and traded pitching ace Bartolo Colón for prospects Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore ; acquired Travis Hafner from the Rangers for Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz ; and picked up Coco Crisp from the St. Louis Cardinals for aging starter Chuck Finley.

In 2004, a multidisciplinary team of academics from Complutense University, led by Francisco Parra Luna, Manuel Fernández Nieto and Santiago Petschen Verdaguer, deduced that the village was that of Villanueva de los Infantes.

* 1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of " heretics " from the country.

However, Jovellanos had been imprisoned by Manuel de Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, who had served as Prime Minister of Spain and virtually ran the country as a dictator from 1792 until 1798 and from 1801 until 1808.

On 28 June 2009, in the context of a constitutional crisis, the military, acting on orders of the Supreme Court of Justice, arrested the president, Manuel Zelaya after which they forcibly removed elected President Zelaya from Honduras.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

Panama, after suffering from the combined effects of Manuel Noriega's dictatorship and the US invasion of Panama in 1990, subsequently abolished its military and constitutionally banned it in 1994, no doubt influenced by its neighbour Costa Rica.

As Secretary of State, Monroe dismissed Mordecai Manuel Noah in 1815 from his post as consul to Tunis because he was Jewish.

As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".

In 1801, Spanish Governor Don Juan Manuel de Salcedo took over from the Marquess of Casa Calvo, and restored the right to deposit goods from the United States.

In 1790, Manuel Quimper of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancouver Island, with orders to explore the newly discovered Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The former Chilean Secret Police Chief, Manuel Contreras, who, as previously mentioned, was convicted for his role in the crime in 1993 and later pointed the finger at his boss, claimed that all his orders came from Pinochet.

Although it was suspended from the Latin American Economic System — known informally both as the Group of Eight and the Rio Group — in 1988 due to its internal political system under Manuel Noriega, Panama was readmitted in September 1994 as an acknowledgment of its present democratic credentials.

This move, however, resulted in no special favors for the Brazilians from Francia, who was also on good, if limited, terms with Juan Manuel Rosas, the Argentine governor.

Charlie Manuel took over the reins of the club from Bowa after the 2004 season, and general manager Ed Wade was replaced by Pat Gillick in November 2005.

In 1155, Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus invaded the Italian peninsula from the south, landing his forces in the region of Apulia.

In 1419 – 1420 Martin had diplomatic contacts with the Byzantine emperor Manuel II, who was invoking a council in Constantinople as a move to reduce the pressure from the Ottoman Turks.

The socialists hope to succeed to José Manuel Barroso benefiting from the failure of the European right wings to find a way out of the crisis for Europe.

FARC founder and leader Manuel Marulanda Vélez is second from left.