20100914
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's national oil company PetroSA said it held fruitful talks with China's oil group Sinopec and was speaking to other potential investors as it seeks partners for a new $10 billion refinery.

20100914
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Optimum Coal Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it would continue to deliver coal to power utility Eskom pending the outcome next year of arbitration over a contract dispute.

20100914
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's powerful labour federation called on Tuesday for more exchange controls and a capital flow tax to ease unemployment, further fraying an alliance with the ANC government amid mounting social unrest.

20100913
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa plans to establish an independent power purchasing authority by April 2011 in an effort to encourage private investment in power generation, a senior energy official said on Monday.

20100913
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - Whites still dominate South Africa's mining industry, and changes to include more blacks in the sector are slow despite a decade of affirmative action, Minerals Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Monday.

20100910
africanews

The murder rate has fallen by 8.6% over the past year in South Africa, latest statistics show. Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said the total number of murders was now about a third lower than 14 years ago. He also said that 46 of South Africa's 50 most wanted criminals had been arrested.

20100907
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African power utility Eskom aims to issue bonds in the United States and Europe this year as part of a plan to raise up to $6.9 billion over the next three years, a top executive said on Tuesday.

20100907
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of South African state workers returned to their jobs on Tuesday after suspending a three-week strike which hit schools and hospitals.

20100907
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SA trade unions suspend public sector strike South African trade unions have suspended a strike which has paralysed schools and hospitals for the past 20 days. Trade union leaders said the move would allow members to consider the latest government offer. Some 1.3 million civil servants went on strike demanding an 8.5% pay rise, while the government has offered 7.5%.

20100906
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa will continue talks with China on Tuesday to attract new investment into agro-processing plants and find a market for the country's surplus maize, the agriculture minister said on Monday.

20100906
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi can appeal his conviction for taking a bribe from a drug kingpin, a judge ruled on Monday.

20100906
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African public sector workers suspended a disruptive pay strike on Monday as it entered its fourth week, union officials said.

20100906
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Johannesburg — PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma 's nephew Khulubuse Zuma is reliably understood to have sold on his disputed rights - thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars - to oilfields in the Democratic Republic of Congo, only four months after gaining them in a controversial battle with Tullow Oil, a UK prospector and oil producer.

20100905
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Unions representing South African state workers are expected to announce on Monday whether they will accept a government wage offer they previously rejected and end a strike by 1.3 million employees.

20100906
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said on Monday its members at Northam Platinum had started a wage strike following a dispute with management, the latest work stoppage in the country.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African state workers held small-scale protests on Friday as union and government negotiators prepared for bargaining next week aimed at ending the three-week walkout by about 1.3 million.

20100903
africanews

South Africa has strongly criticised Madagascar over the life sentence passed on exiled President Marc Ravalomanana last week. Such sentences would not help end Madagascar's political turmoil, said International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.

20100902
africanews

South Africa will stop at the end of the year a special deal granted to thousands of Zimbabweans, who were allowed to enter Africa's largest economy without documents, a cabinet spokesman said. The special dispensation was introduced in April last year during political instability in Zimbabwe, where hundreds of thousands flee to SA.

20100830
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government and unions representing 1.3 million striking state workers began talks on Monday night following President Jacob Zuma's order to ministers to negotiate immediately to end the walkout.

20100830
africanews

South African President Jacob Zuma has called on government ministers to negotiate without delay with public sector workers to end a pay strike by over one million workers. Zuma met with ministers over the weekend to try to end a strike which entered its third week on Monday and threatens to spread to other unions.