20110614
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Julius Malema and the ANC Youth League he heads appears to have embarked on a campaign to limit President Jacob Zuma to one term as leader of South Africa's ruling party, union leaders say.

20110614
xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, June 13 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Premier League club Lamontville Golden Arrows have signed a one-year contract with German coach Ernst Middendorp with the option to renew, it has been confirmed by managing director Manto Madlala on Monday.

20110613
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed in a fire early on Monday at a centre for the mentally disabled and elderly near Johannesburg, South African media reported.

20110611
allafrica
Albertina Sisulu has been celebrated in obituaries as a political leader in her own right, as the matriarch of a political dynasty whose stature rivals that of the Mandelas, and as "mother of the nation" -- a term once reserved only for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Less well known is how she helped to change relations between South Africa and the United States.

20110611
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Minister in the South African presidency Trevor Manuel on Friday denied he is in the running for the post of International Monetary Fund managing director.

20110607
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend $365 million to South Africa's coal-intensive power utility to boost its share of renewable energy, saving millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions, the bank said on Monday.

20110525
PressTV
South African President Jacob Zuma plans to visit Libya in order to discuss an exit strategy for embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

20110525
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma will travel to Tripoli on Monday to hold discussions with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

20110525
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has culled 10,000 ostriches but an outbreak of avian flu which resulted in the halt of ostrich-meat exports to the European Union is "on-going," the department of agriculture said on Tuesday.

20110524
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Monday it would seek a 14 percent rise in salaries from gold and coal miners in upcoming wage talks.

20110522
Aljazeera

Windhoek — Inaction marked the Extraordinary Summit of Southern African Development Community heads of state in Windhoek this weekend, despite an agenda covering Zimbabwe elections, political deadlock in Madagascar, the suspension of the regional court and allegations of corruption within SADC itself.

In the days leading up to the summit, there was the chance that it might not take place at all, with the South African president, Jacob Zuma, pulling out at the last moment, preferring to concentrate on local elections in his own country.

May 23 2011
mg.co.za

The African National Congress (ANC) and the National Freedom Party (NFP) will hold coalition talks on Monday afternoon in Durban, the NFP leader said.

20110519
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Preliminary results in South Africa's local elections showed the ruling African National Congress in the lead in a vote characterised by the government's failure to improve the lives of the poor.

20110517
SAPA

Johannesburg — From 7am on Wednesday over 23 million registered voters will go to over 20,000 polling stations around South Africa to choose who will represent them at local government level.

20110518
reuters

South Africans on Wednesday began voting in municipal elections in which squalid unenclosed toilets built for the country's poor have become a potent symbol of local government neglect.

20110518
reuters

South Africans on Wednesday began voting in municipal elections in which squalid unenclosed toilets built for the country's poor have become a potent symbol of local government neglect.

20110518
reuters

The next managing director of the IMF should be from a developing country to ensure the interests of all countries are reflected in its operations, South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday.

20110517
RFI

South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela has voted at his Johannesburg home in the country's third democratic local elections. He was one of 239,000 people permitted to cast their ballot ahead of Wednesday's poll for reasons of ill health.

20110513
REUTERS

Just beyond the sprawling mansions guarded by private security and the high rise office blocks of Sandton, Africa's richest city, the poor in neighbouring Alexandra township struggle to eke a living.

20110510
reuters

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's government could jeopardise Wal-Mart's $2.4 billion bid for retailer Massmart if it demands local procurement targets, the chief executive of the South African retailer said on Tuesday.