Wal-Mart's acquisition of South Africa's Massmart could lead to thousands of job losses and worsening labour conditions, the South African government will argue at a hearing that starts on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African mobile operator MTN said on Sunday it had resolved a fee row with the government of Guinea that had seen the west African country seize its assets there.
Cape Town — The construction of unenclosed toilets at the Makhaza informal settlement on the Cape Flats meant that the City of Cape Town had lost sight of the constitutional rights and needs of the poor, the Western Cape High Court ruled on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African farmers who lost their privately-owned mineral rights when a new mining act came into effect in 2004 can claim for financial losses, farmers' group Agri SA said following a court ruling.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's economy has started to show positive signs of recovery but it will take time to recover from the job losses of a recession in 2009, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) reiterated on Tuesday that it would take strike action against state power utility Eskom and said it was now demanding a 16 percent, one-year wage hike.
The killing of a man during a protest in Ficksburg, allegedly at the hands of the police, was widely condemned by political parties, trade unions and civil society on Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African teacher died in a beating too violent for a broadcaster to keep on air and so reminiscent of apartheid-era police brutality it raised questions over whether the country's police service was failing.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of nurses at South Africa's biggest private hospital group Netcare are mulling a strike over better pay, union officials said on Friday.
20110414 Reuters SANYA, China (Reuters) - The BRICS group of emerging-market powers kept up the pressure on Thursday for a revamped global monetary system that relies less on the dollar and for a louder voice in international financial institutions.
20110414 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Thursday it had suspended exports of ostrich meat to the European Union after H5N2 avian flu had been detected among birds in the Western Cape Province.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Tripoli on Sunday as part of a delegation of five African leaders seeking to mediate in Libya's conflict.
The Constitutional Court in a majority judgment on Friday upheld the Citizen newspaper's appeal in a defamation case against former Ekurhuleni metro police chief, Robert McBride.
20110324 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's state employees have rejected the government's initial 4.8 percent wage offer linked to inflation, demanding a 10 percent increase, a union official said on Thursday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At least 59 soldiers and militiamen were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in clashes between the South Sudan army and local militia groups in three
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nationalisation of South Africa's mines and other economic assets is not government policy, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday in the latest government comment aimed at reassuring investors.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has ordered the Treasury to freeze assets linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his associates, a government official said on Friday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa would prefer a new global trade deal that boosts development rather than take a quick deal without such assurances, the country's trade minister said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Sunday promised to create jobs, improve social services and fight corruption in government as he appealed for support in municipal elections.
