20100829
reuters

Pretoria — President Jacob Zuma has reiterated that whilst government fully understands workers frustrations caused by low salaries, protest actions should be undertaken within the ambit of the law and basic human decency.

20100829
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma has called on government ministers to negotiate immediately with public sector workers to end a pay strike by more than one million workers, local media said on Monday.

20100827
africanews

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's largest union threatened on Friday to bring gold and platinum mining and other industries to a halt next week in a strike to support a labour stoppage by 1.3 million state workers.

20100827
africanews

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Standard Bank has agreed with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company to work on nuclear power opportunities in South Africa, the chief executive of Africa's biggest bank said on Friday.

20100824
Business Day

Johannesburg — THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has given the government an ultimatum to agree to public sector unions' wage demands or face a total shutdown next week.

20100824
reuters

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday said some anomalies that had been identified over mining royalties had been fixed.

20100824
reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged China to invest more in infrastructure and manufacturing in his country, as his government seeks to broaden South Africa's economic appeal beyond mines and resources.

20100824
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Standard Bank Group said on Tuesday it has signed memorandum of understanding with China Railway Group to cooperate on funding for rail and infrastructure projects in Africa.

20100824
africanews

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's biggest labour federation COSATU on Tuesday threatened to expand a state workers' strike next week to all of its members, which could deal a heavy blow to manufacturing in Africa's largest economy.

20100823
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African state workers defied a court order to return to work on Monday and police fired rubber bullets to disperse strikers who were blocking entrances to a Johannesburg hospital.

20100823
reuters

JOHANNESBURG/HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC is in talks to buy up to 70 percent of South Africa's Nedbank in a potential $8-billion-plus deal that would give Europe's biggest lender a broader gateway to the fast-growing African continent.

20100823
africanews

Despite a court injunction banning unions from closing emergency services, some one million South African civil servants are continuing their indefinite strike for a sixth day in a row. Police have fired rubber bullets at striking health workers, injuring several protesters in Durban.

20100822
RFI

A South African labour court has issued an order to striking public-sector workers not to "intimidate" colleagues who have not joined their work stoppage. And the government is talking tougher after four days of industrial action for higher pay.

20100822
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government said on Saturday a labour court had granted an injunction banning civil servants in essential services from taking part in strike by more than one million public sector workers.

20100822
reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma, struggling with sluggish growth and worker discontent at home, seeks to boost trade on Monday on a trip to China, the last of the four "BRIC" economies he has visited in little over a year since taking office..

20100821
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government said on Saturday a labour court had granted an injunction banning civil servants in essential services from taking part in strike by more than one million public sector workers.

20100820
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African automobile manufacturers and a union representing thousands of auto workers reached a deal on wages, ending a costly eight-day strike, employers' body AMEO said.

20100820
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's market regulator is looking into the share price move of Dimension Data for signs of insider trading in the days before a $3.2 billion takeover bid from Japan's NTT, a senior official said.

20100820
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government offered no new deal in talks on Friday to end a strike by about 1 million civil servants that now looks set to stretch into next week, a union spokesman said.

20100819
africanews

South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds blocking roads and healthcare workers prevented patients from entering hospitals as a strike by more than one million civil servants grew on Thursday.