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South Africa : S.Africa's Gordhan sees constrained fiscal environment
on 2011/11/14 19:48:51
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : IFC to spend up to $400 mln on Africa telecoms next financial yr
on 2011/11/10 12:52:49
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.Africa's Amplats to implement community deal
on 2011/11/8 10:39:27
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.Africa's youth to march against unemployment
on 2011/10/27 17:30:29
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : South African Markets
on 2011/10/26 16:29:21
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : SAfrica starts murder trial of supremacist
on 2011/10/10 18:09:16
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : Climate change negotiators see no major Durban deal
on 2011/10/8 16:44:21
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.Africa's Malema in hospital, could miss ANC hearing
on 2011/10/6 18:19:43
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : China, S. Africa ink $2.5 billion in deals in Dalai Lama's shadow
on 2011/9/30 13:19:35
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : UK approves S.Africa honeymoon suspect's extradition
on 2011/9/29 14:28:38
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.Africa's "Dr. Death" probed for apartheid past
on 2011/9/28 16:37:39
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : Zuma launches graft probes to defuse scandals
on 2011/9/24 14:09:20
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : South Africa ANC hurt by faction fighting: officials
on 2011/9/21 17:03:04
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.African govt joins AU in recognizing Libya's NTC
on 2011/9/21 16:58:57
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.Africa delays much-criticised state secrets bill
on 2011/9/20 17:58:48
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : Hearing for S.Africa's Malema postponed to October
on 2011/9/18 18:04:39
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : Europe ready to back Libya rebel government in UN
on 2011/9/17 17:03:12
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : Nelson Mandela is alive and well: foundation
on 2011/9/14 17:43:46
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : Zuma says Malema should be helped, not banished
on 2011/9/13 16:00:47
South Africa

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.

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South Africa : S.Africa's Malema declares "economic war" on whites
on 2011/9/12 16:22:58
South Africa

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.

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