20110225
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A special South African police unit known as the Hawks on Thursday called for an investigation into how Nigerian rebel leader Henry Okah came to be in possession of eight cell phones while in prison in Johannesburg.

20110221
reuters

SOMERSET WEST, South Africa (Reuters) - Floods in South Africa have cost the farming sector about 2.8 billion rand in damages, and farmers are hoping for a government bailout, an industry official said on Monday.

20110218
reuetrs

PARIS (Reuters) - India's finance minister said on Friday South Africa was being brought in alongside his country, China, Brazil and Russia as part of the group of developing economies hitherto known as the BRIC club.

20110218
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- South Africa has no favorite in Cote d'Ivoire presidential election crisis, the country's International Relations Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane said on Thursday.

20010214
SAPA

Johannesburg — Unions and the Road Freight Employers Association (RFEA) will meet on Tuesday to thrash out solutions to a wage dispute in the sector, which has sparked violent protests in Johannesburg.

20110214
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired rubber bullets at striking truck drivers on Monday after they stoned vehicles transporting goods in Johannesburg and pulled drivers out of their cabs.

20110208
xinhua

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa intends to create a 10 billion rand fund to tackle massive unemployment in Africa's biggest economy, the ANC's Secretary General Gwede Mantashe told Reuters on Tuesday.

20110208
xinhua

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Nationalising South Africa's mines is "not the option", mines minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday in her strongest comments in a year against an idea that has unnerved investors in Africa's biggest economy.

20110128
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- After days of speculation about the health South Africa's iconic former President Nelson Mandela, the country's Vice President Kgalema Motlanthe told reporters on Friday that Mandela is well.

20110125
reuters

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Heavy rains in South Africa have so far cost the country's farming sector over 2 billion rand in damages, an industry official said on Tuesday.

20110125
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African truckers seeking 20 percent wage increases over two years are threatening a strike that could slam the brakes on Africa's largest economy, a union official said on Tuesday.

20110125
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African truckers seeking 20 percent wage increases over two years are threatening a strike that could slam the brakes on Africa's largest economy, a union official said on Tuesday.

20110121
BuaNews

Pretoria — Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba says Eskom's bond oversubscription is a sign of investor confidence in South Africa.

20110117
SAPA

Johannesburg — A fireman has drowned and countless other people are missing after massive flooding around Gauteng on Monday.

20110117
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Floods have killed or left missing at least 40 people in South Africa and wrecked thousands of homes in neighbouring Mozambique, officials said on Monday.

20110106
IPS

Cape Town — South Africa's (SA), inclusion in the BRIC group of powerful emerging economies has sparked intense debate, with some saying it has done itself a disservice by trying to punch above its weight, and others lauding the inclusion as a step towards becoming a more important player on the global stage.

20110102
africanews

A museum built to honour the legacy of Nelson Mandela is turning into a national embarrassment forcing Cameron Dugmore, former Western Cape education minister, to vow to raise his concerns about the heritage site with the premier of the Eastern Cape.

20110102
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ten people were killed in a stampede in a bar in a South African township during a New Year's Eve celebration, an official said on Saturday.

20110101
xinhua

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Ten festival revelers died in a crush at a bar in South Africa, the local SAPA news agency reported on Saturday.

20110101
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Queues stretched for kilometres at immigration offices in South Africa on Friday as thousands of Zimbabweans tried to meet a year-end deadline to file papers for legalising their stay in the country.