2012018 AFP African leaders hailed South Africa's ruling ANC in centenary celebrations for the continent's oldest liberation movement which inspired regional struggles for freedom.
2012018 AFP IMF chief Christine Lagarde praised South Africa's "impressive" economic performance on Saturday, but again warned that the European debt crisis posed a risk to Africa's largest economy.
2012017 AFP South Africa's mighty African National Congress on Friday began celebrations for its centenary, still firmly at the helm of Nelson Mandela's all-race democracy despite losing some of its shine.
2012017 AFP South Africa may have produced two Nobel laureates in literature but a famous bookshop in Johannesburg is nevertheless about to close, a victim of the country's poor reading culture.
20120104 AFP Jacques Kallis and Alviro Petersen hit centuries as South Africa dominated the first day of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka at Newlands on Tuesday.
20120104 AFP A decision by South African wildlife parks to auction the right to hunt white rhinoceros has stirred up controversy, with lobby groups warning that the species is already under pressure from poachers.
20120103 AFP The cradle of the anti-apartheid movement, Soweto is no longer the ANC bastion it once was, with locals disillusioned by poor service delivery and constant squandering of public money.
20111231 AFP "The leopards won't like that!" jokes ranger Fyson Suwedi as his pick-up truck rattles along the bumpy road that leads from the airstrip to Malawi's Majete Wildlife Reserve.
20111228 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police say 19 people were killed when an overtaking car smashed head-on into a minibus taxi as the nation's holiday accident toll continues to grow.
20111225 AFP Toulouse's South Africa hooker Gary Botha broke his right leg in Friday's French Top 14 win over Montpellier and will be ruled out for up to four months.
20111225 AFP Nelson Mandela's grandson will tie the knot with a third wife in a traditional ceremony Saturday despite a court ban on the wedding, according to a report.
20111221 AFP Julius Malema, the suspended youth leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress, was elected Tuesday to a senior party post by members in his home province of Limpopo.
20111215 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The fugitive killer of the Serbian warlord known as Arkan has been arrested in South Africa and will appear in court next month on drug charges, the New Age newspaper reported on Wednesday.
20111214 AFP Mongezi Mponco left his village of grassland hills as one of hundreds of thousands of healthy young black men who poured into the deep underground of South Africa's gold mines.
20111208 Reuters DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change.
20111207 Reuters (Reuters) - Economic crisis and the top three polluters China, the United States and India, loomed as obstacles to a new global deal at the start of a second make-or-break week of U.N. climate talks in the South African city of Durban.
20111204 Press TV The South African finance minister says the burgeoning debt crisis in the eurozone is jeopardizing South Africa's economy as the European bloc constitutes Africa's major trading partner.
20111203 Reuters (Reuters) - Life is about to get a lot better for people like Christopher Mocwane, a worker at one of the world's largest iron ore mines outside this dusty town in the middle of the Kalahari desert.
20111127 Reuters (Reuters) - Three people kidnapped in Mali were from South Africa, the Netherlands and Sweden, their governments said Saturday, a day after their abduction in a region where al Qaeda agents operate.
20111117 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A lawyer for hundreds of former South African gold miners accused their ex-employers on Wednesday of failing to provide access to regular check-ups for silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling dust.
