20110910
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African rugby player Bees Roux reached a plea bargain on Friday to avoid jail for beating to death a Pretoria police office who pulled him over for drunk driving, a prosecution official said.

20110907
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa has no plans to privatise logistics group Transnet and power utility Eskom to attract more investment and has no intention of splitting the companies, the minister of public enterprises said on Tuesday.

20110831
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30 percent of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them by the government, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday.

20110831
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PERTH (Reuters) - South Africa's debate on the question of nationalising mines is discouraging investment, but the policy will be clear by mid-2012, an adviser to mines minister Susan Shabangu told reporters on the sidelines of a mining conference on Wednesday.

20110831
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - With his political career at stake, firebrand South African politician Julius Malema faced a ruling ANC disciplinary hearing for a second day on Wednesday as Johannesburg police deployed in force to prevent any repeat of riots by Malema's supporters.

20110831
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday it had agreed a 2-year wage deal with Anglo American Platinum, the world's top producer of the precious metal which accounts for about 40 percent of global supply.

20110825
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has charged four more members of its youth wing with violating its rules, piling pressure on a group that has rattled elements in the ANC leadership and investors with calls to nationalise mines.

20110820
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Friday charged controversial youth leader Julius Malema with "sowing divisions" in its ranks and bringing the party into disrepute.

20110817
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Unions representing more than 1 million South Africa state workers said on Tuesday they had reached a wage increase deal with the government to avert a mass strike that could have slowed Africa's largest economy.

20110815
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court will hear this week a case over disputed mineral rights that are behind a spat worth billions of rand and which could shed light on allegations of fraud and corruption in government ranks.

20110814
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Youth League of South Africa's ANC apologised to the ruling party on Saturday for meddling in foreign affairs when it called for the overthrow the democratically elected government of neighbouring Botswana.

20110814
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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - South Africa plans to invest in tourism, energy and infrastructure in Burundi to help the central African nation which is still struggling to revive its economy after two decades of civil war.

20110811
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - Plans to introduce national health insurance, one of the biggest changes proposed by South Africa's ruling African National Congress, will require an estimated 125 billion rand in 2012 and 214 billion rand by 2020, a government source said on Thursday.

20110802
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu reiterated on Tuesday that nationalisation of mines was not government policy, but admitted debate about the issue inside the ruling party was hurting investment and job creation.

20110802
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African gold mine workers and producers were to resume wage talks on Tuesday aimed at ending a strike that is costing the companies up to $25 million a day in lost output at a time when the precious metal is fetching record high prices.

20110801
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police may reopen a corruption probe into a multi-billion dollar arms deal involving several companies and high profile officials including President Jacob Zuma to see if charges can be instituted a decade after the transaction.

20110801
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African coal and gold miners will meet the Chamber of Mines in separate talks on Monday in a bid to end stoppages that have cost Africa's largest economy tens of millions of dollars in lost output.

20110801
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police said on Sunday they were investigating a trust fund at the centre of corruption allegations run by influential politician Julius Malema, who heads the Youth League of the ruling African National Congress.

20110730
ReutersEMALAHLENI, South Africa (Reuters) - After 38 years working for one of South Africa's biggest coal miners, plant attendant Joseph still struggles to make ends meet.

20110726
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African coal workers went on strike on Monday seeking inflation-busting 14 percent wage increases, but power utility Eskom said the stoppage would not have an immediate impact on plants providing electricity to Africa's largest economy.