20111114 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government realises that it has to work in a more constrained fiscal environment for a few more years, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday.
20111110 Reuters CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The International Finance Corporation plans to spend up to $300 million in the financial year ending June and another $400 million in the following year on new African telecoms projects that are not commercially attractive to traditional financiers.
20111108 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's largest platinum producer, said on Monday it would implement a 3.5 billion rand deal that will give 2.33 percent of the group to communities where it operates.
20111027 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Police lined the streets of South Africa's commercial capital on Thursday with hundreds of youths set to march to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Chamber of Mines demanding big changes to an economy still controlled by the white minority.
20111026 Reuters Oct 26 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect South African markets on Wednesday.
20111010 Reuters VENTERSDORP, South Africa (Reuters) - The trial of two blacks accused of hacking to death South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'blanche in a wage dispute at his farm opened on Monday, with a racially charged display outside the courthouse.
2011108 Reuters PANAMA CITY (Reuters)- Global climate change negotiators on Friday concluded their last round of discussions before next month's U.N. convention in Durban, South Africa with faint hope of extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond next year.
20111006 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African political firebrand Julius Malema was admitted to hospital on Wednesday and is not expected to attend a ruling ANC disciplinary hearing that resumes this week, his ANC Youth League said in a statement.
20110930 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - China has agreed to $2.5 billion in investment projects with South Africa, the African nation's deputy president said on Thursday, on a three-day trip to China during which he brushed off controversy over a potential visit by the Dalai Lama.
20110929 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May has given the go-ahead for the extradition to South Africa of a British businessman accused of murdering his wife while on honeymoon in Cape Town, the Home Office said on Wednesday.
20110928 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Wouter Basson, dubbed "Dr. Death" faces a medical ethics board this week that could cancel his medical licence for producing chemicals used in numerous crimes.
20110924 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has launched a probe into a real estate deal by a former ally, the second major corruption investigation in two weeks, in what analysts called an attempt to defuse scandals that could threaten his party leadership.
20110921 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Factional fighting is turning the African National Congress, South Africa's ruling party, into a "shambles" ahead of a leadership election next year, senior ANC officials said on Wednesday.
20110921 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa on Tuesday joined the West, regional rival Nigeria and the African Union in recognizing the National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's de facto government.
20110920 Reuters CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) delayed presenting to parliament a widely criticised state-secrecy bill that makes the jailing of whistleblowers legal, lawmakers said on Monday.
20110918 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A disciplinary hearing that could decide the political fate of South African firebrand Julius Malema has been postponed until October, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) said.
20110917 Reuters KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) - Europe is ready to recognise Libya's interim government in the United Nations, but will push it to become more inclusive, the European Council president said on Thursday.
20110914 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela is alive and well despite rumours on social media sites on Tuesday that he has died, state-owned broadcaster SABC reported.
20110913 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC does not plan to throw firebrand youth leader Julius Malema out of the party and he should be helped "to do the right things" rather than be punished, President Jacob Zuma said in an interview published on Tuesday.
20110912 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The firebrand leader of the youth wing of South Africa's ruling ANC declared "economic war" on whites on Saturday, making clear he had no intention of backing down from inflammatory rhetoric on the eve of a party disciplinary hearing.