China’s President Xi Jinping has offered his condolences to South Africa over the death of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, praising him as a ‘world-renowned’ leader.
World leaders have paid glowing tribute to South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who passed away at the age of 95 in Johannesburg on Thursday.
South Africa and France agreed Monday on the need to act "quickly" to prevent an implosion in the deeply troubled Central African Republic at the start of President Francois Hollande's two-day visit.
The majority of miners working for South Africa’s Anglo-American Platinum (Amplats) have gone on a strike in protest against planned job cuts by the world’s biggest platinum producer.
A nationwide strike by thousands of gold miners came to a complete end on Sunday after workers at Harmony Gold accepted a final offer from the company.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) says nearly 73,000 gas station attendants and car repair workers are poised to stage walkouts for higher salaries.
A South African university which was forced to close due to labour unrest and maladministration will re-open next week, after workers called off a six-week-long strike, unions and officials said Friday.
India and South Africa cricket chiefs are to meet in Dubai this month to defuse a row over the scheduling of an upcoming tour between the two countries, Cricket South Africa said on Friday.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says his government will allow South Sudan to export its oil through northern pipelines and the Red Sea port city of Port Sudan.
The General-Secretary of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says members of the group are set to stage walkouts over layoffs and living conditions.
Tens of thousands of gold miners are set to go on strike Tuesday after wage talks broke down, threatening to cost millions of dollars in lost output in the troubled sector.
A protracted strike in South Africa's gold industry would harm Africa's largest economy and the government is ready to intervene to bring parties together, the mining minister said on Tuesday.
South Africa's peace icon Nelson Mandela is facing a long and uncertain road to recovery, despite his return home from nearly three months in hospital, medical experts said on Monday.
South Africans on Monday welcomed Nelson Mandela's discharge from a hospital after nearly three months of treatment amid concerns that his health remains so poor that he still must receive intensive care at home.
South Africans on Monday welcomed Nelson Mandela's discharge from a hospital after nearly three months of treatment amid concerns that his health remains so poor that he still must receive intensive care at home.
South African union leaders warned on Monday, a day before a strike in the gold sector, that mine owners' handling of pay talks could provoke violence, and bosses said wage hikes would force mine closures and cost thousands of jobs.
South Africa's gold mineworkers on Friday announced they will embark on a sector-wide strike after the collapse of wage talks, prompting fears of more turbulence ahead for Africa's largest economy.
