20100817
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - ANC youth leader Julius Malema has been cleared of accusations that he exploited his political connections to secure lucrative government contracts, according to the ANC Youth League.

20100817
reuters

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa will impose a six-month halt on new mining prospecting bids pending to allow the overhaul of the minerals law after damaging disputes with two firms over rights, a minister said on Tuesday.

20100817
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African public sector unions on Tuesday rejected a revised government pay offer and said they planned a mass strike from Wednesday that will bring public services to a halt in Africa's largest economy.

20100816
africanews

MELBOURNE/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will buy the drugs unit of Australia's Sigma Pharmaceuticals for $804 million in cash, having sweetened its offer to gain about a quarter of Australia's generic market.

The bid from Aspen likely ends a three-month tussle between the two companies over the price of debt-laden Sigma.

20100816
africanews

Two opposition parties, Independent Democrat party and Democratic Alliance in South Africa are planning to merge in a bid to form a united front against the ruling ANC to challenge its overwhelming grip of power. The two parties will merge in their fight of corruption, infighting, and a failure by the ANC to deliver on its election promises.

20100816
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African autoworkers seeking wage increases more than triple the rate of inflation will continue to strike on Monday after talks with employers failed to agree a deal, a union official said on Sunday.

20100814
ANC

A letter from the President of the African National Congress, Jacob Zuma, carried on the party's website:

20100813
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police found four bullet-riddled bodies in an unused shaft of a mine belonging to relatives of Nelson Mandela and President Jacob Zuma, an officer said on Thursday.

20100813
reuters

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Major South African public sector unions will respond next week to a revised government pay offer, suspending for several days a threatened mass strike they said would bring services to a halt, officials said on Friday.

20100810
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A proposed South African tribunal to oversee the print media, derided by critics as muzzling the press, will enhance accountability and improve reporting, a senior ruling party official said on Tuesday.

20100808
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Uncut stones received by British supermodel Naomi Campbell after a 1997 charity dinner with South Africa's then-President Nelson Mandela are real diamonds, police said on Sunday.

20100806
reuters

Johannesburg — THE Department of Mineral Resources will be taken urgently to court by Lonmin after the world's third-largest platinum miner was forbidden from selling associated minerals from its mines with immediate effect.

20100806
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than a million South African public sector workers plan to strike on Tuesday and demonstrate throughout the country in what could be a prelude to prolonged industrial action in Africa's largest economy.

20100805
africanews

Indications emerged that erstwhile number two man in Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would on Sunday formally declare his presidential ambition for the 2011 presidential elections in the country.

20100805
africanews

Pitso Mosimane, the man who has been tasked with orchestrating the revival of the South African national team, has insisted on continuity as he announced his first squad to face Ghana in next week's friendly at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.

20100803
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The World Bank has launched a probe into its procedures related to the approval of a $3.75 billion loan to South Africa's Eskom, but the loan to the power firm is unlikely to be affected.

20100803
allAfrica

South Africa's former national police chief, Jackie Selebi, has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for corruption.

20100803
africanews

South Africa's former police boss and ex-president of Interpol Jackie Selebi has been handed a 15-year jail sentence for graft. He is one of the high profile officials in the country to face justice for corruption. Selebi was convicted for receiving bribes from a drug lord last month.

20100802
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress is considering whether the country should impose tax on short-run capital inflows to arrest the strength of the local currency and make it more competitive.

20100801
africanews

About 18 people dead and several others injured following a fire outbreak at a retirement home in South Africa. The blaze broke out at around 2100 (1900 GMT) on Sunday, 50km (30 miles) south-east of Johannesburg. The cause of the fire, which gutted the Pieter Wessels retirement home in Nigel, is not yet known.