The planned inquiry into private healthcare was delayed partly due to the fact that this is a ‘new terrain’ for South Africa. “This market inquiry is...
South African lawmakers are in the process of enacting legislation that will seek to increase the involvement of black citizens and women in the economy. With...
The City of Johannesburg is at work to transform itself into an economy of the future, the city’s mayor Mpho Parks Tau has said. “We’ve done...
Construction companies in sub-Saharan Africa are moving beyond mainstay mining work as rising wealth and urbanization spark demand for shopping centers and better roads, the chief...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South Africa’s main opposition party named 2 parliamentary officials to a panel that will probe President Jacob Zuma’s response to...
The market for luxury goods has increased worldwide in the last 20 years and African products have entered into that niche. According to consumer research company...
International companies planning to enter the African market will fall short if they fail to consider the culture of the environment. According to the World Bank,...
South African economists have welcomed the announcement that Nigeria is now the biggest economy in Africa saying it is good news for the continent. This follows...
Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will release the country’s rebased GDP calculations proposed for September 2013, on Sunday. The West African country, which is currently...
Total returns on South African retail, office and industrial buildings reached a six-year high of 15.3 percent in 2013, making South Africa the most lucrative commercial property...
Voter casts ballot in Mali presidential election, November 24, 2013. PHOTO/Habibou Kouyate/AFP African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has approved an observer mission to South...
South Africa’s telecoms regulator can go ahead with planned cuts to mobile interconnection rates, a court ruled on Monday. The decision threw out a petition by...
Botswana has been confirmed as the host nation for the 2014 COSAFA Cup becoming the fourth country to stage the event since the finals switched to...
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has been delayed until April 7...
At least three African nations are looking to add nuclear power to their grid. Kenya and Nigeria want to establish nuclear energy, and South Africa, the...
The bank’s business model, based on unsecured loans and low-cost transactions, has proved successful as it seeks to attract the unbanked population. Blowing up in growth,...
National power utility, Eskom has appointed Collin Matjila as acting chief executive, with effect from 1 April 2014. Matjila, currently a member of the Eskom...
Ask 10 people what big data is and you’ll get 10 different answers. Big data is not about technology, it’s about you and what you want...
South Africa is Africa’s only nuclear power, and the first nation to have voluntarily relinquished its nuclear weapons. The government then committed to being fully transparent...
South Africa may be experiencing an economic bubble similar to those that caused the downfall of Western economies in 2008. This is according to Jesse Colombo,...
South Africa, which currently relies on coal for more than 85 percent of its electricity, wants to wean itself off fossil fuels by using more nuclear...
Kenyans have confidence in mobile transactions by their banks amidst lowering confidence in customer care. This is according to a new report by audit firm Ernst...
High quality software development is possible on the African continent but it needs to be encouraged and promoted. “The key thing to remember is, especially here...
While colonialism has been ousted from Africa, many argue that multi-national corporations based in far-off capitals practice economic colonialism with developed nations using economic power and...
South Africa’s electoral body, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says all is set for the country’s fifth democratic elections, set for 7 May. IEC chief electoral...
Investments in other African countries are starting to pay off handsomely for some South African companies, such as banks, which earned R5.1bn from operations on the...
2013 was a difficult year for the five BRICS countries. China and Brazil faced slowing growth, South Africa and India were hit by currency instability, and...
On paper, South Africa’s long-term energy plans look solid, with coal, nuclear, gas and renewables all viable options. But none are likely to prevent potentially crippling...
South Africa’s biggest union has called a one-day work stoppage for Wednesday to highlight youth unemployment in the country, the union said. The 340,000-member National Union...
In an exclusive interview with NPR, Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala delivered the promising news that the country has overcome hurdles and stabilized the economy. For...
South Africa’s current account deficit decreased more than expected in the final quarter of 2013. This was due to the fact that exports outpaced imports to...
South Africa’s parliament passed changes to its main petroleum law giving the state a stake of 20 percent in new gas and oil explorations. The bill...
Zakes Hadebe’s minibus taxi has nearly half a million kilometers on the clock, a broken speedometer and a fuel gauge he struggles to keep just above...
South Africa’s education minister says the nation of 11 official languages will introduce Mandarin into its school curriculum. The move is part of a greater effort...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma said the government must push for increased black ownership of the continent’s...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius listens to court proceedings, March 4, 2014. PHOTO/Reuters Oscar Pistorius asked a friend to take the blame after a pistol was...
South Africa’s cloud services market value is expected to grow to $229.69 million in 2014, according to an International Data Corporation’s research report. The IDC’s report...
Many of the continent’s largest retailers are dialing back their expansion plans and looking to make smaller advances closer to home. In a year that saw...
Five illegal miners have been found dead in an abandoned shaft near Johannesburg, emergency services said on Wednesday, highlighting the dangers of scavenging for bullion beneath...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images A South African judge ruled on Tuesday that the murder...
By Jakkie Cilliers A new paper by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), called South African Futures 2030, outlines several plausible scenarios for the country, based...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images South Africa’s High Court on Wednesday delayed judgment on an...
The Zulus were a militaristic warrior kingdom that united all the neighboring villages under one banner in South Africa. Led by the great leader, Shaka Zulu,...
The spokesperson of South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) stated that the electoral body will deploy new technologies as part of its preparations to administer a...
Talks to end a strike over pay that has crippled production at the world’s largest platinum mines will resume in South Africa tomorrow. The Commission for...
Incumbent South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and leader of opposition Democratic Alliance Party Helen Zille (r). PHOTO/Daily Maverick South Africa will hold general elections on...
Rescuers recovered 8 bodies and continued to search for another missing worker on Thursday after a fire and rock-fall at a Harmony Gold mine near Johannesburg,...
South African police are ready to present their case when Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius goes on trial on March 3 for the murder...
Wage talks between South Africa’s AMCU union and the world’s top three platinum producers resumed on Tuesday to try to end a nearly two-week strike that...
It was a political marriage that many called a game changer for South Africa. But a week later, the announcement that opposition Agang SA leader, Mamphela...
South Africa’s main opposition party is to field anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele as its presidential candidate in this year’s election, giving the Democratic Alliance (DA) a...
South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has appealed for calm and dialogue ahead of a planned strike this week by tens of thousands of workers at...
South Africa’s economy cannot afford more mine labor unrest, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday, as the platinum industry’s main trade union served notice on...
(Marketwired) – Johannesburg, South Africa – Companies are starting to place big bets on Africa, but many of them are still figuring out what it takes...
(VoA News) – South Africa is a country that loves its beer. It’s a product that has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar industry for commercial beverage...
South Africa’s largest trade union on Friday said it will no longer back the ruling African National Congress, a tectonic shift in the country’s politics ahead...
(Bloomberg) – Nigeria’s plan to rebase its gross domestic production (GDP) figures next year may boost the assessment of the size of its economy by as...
The casket bearing Nelson Mandela’s remains prior to being lowered into his grave. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s body lying in state. PHOTO/Marco Longari/AFP Thousands of people queued on Wednesday to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela, whose body...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma has declared a week of mourning across South Africa for Nelson Mandela...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Reuters/Mike Hutchings One of the most beloved leaders of the 20th century, Nelson Mandela, the father of modern South Africa...
(Bloomberg) – When Gbemiga Omotoso bought a Samsung tablet computer last year, he handed over his cash to a man in a van. There was nothing...
Rescue workers sift through the debris of the collapsed building in Tongaat, South Africa. PHOTO/Mario Lungelo via Twitter (Reuters) – Rescue workers called off the search...
Paramedics in South Africa say part of a shopping mall under construction has collapsed, trapping up to 50 workers inside. The South African Press Association (SAPA)...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, remains “quite ill” and unable to speak because of tubes that...
(Reuters) – When Abasiama Idaresit started a digital marketing firm in Nigeria’s bustling economic capital three years ago, he quickly learned how brutal life can be...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) declared a wage dispute on Thursday with platinum producer Lonmin, raising the prospect of sector-wide...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/GettyImages Prosecutors accusing Oscar Pistorius of premeditated murder will add two more...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (AFP) – A South African court began sentencing on Monday 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason...
South Africa is about to be seriously upstaged on the African continent. For several years economists have been waiting for a promised revision to Nigeria’s economic...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of The Dangote Group Nigerian entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, plans to spend US$350 million to build a new cement plant in...
(Reuters) – Fewer than one in five workers turned up for work at Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats) South African platinum mines around the city of Rustenburg,...
Ask anyone with insider knowledge of Africa’s regional economic communities – and they will tell you that most of the issues keeping Africa apart are not...
Members of South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) will stage a work stoppage to protest job cuts, AMCU...
(Reuters) – Kenya wants to host a clearing house for China’s yuan currency – a bold African first that would deepen the continent’s ties with Beijing,...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers said on Friday it had agreed to a deal for wage hikes of up to 12 percent with...
While South Africa remains the most attractive corporate investment destination in Africa, Nigeria is nipping at its heels and may overtake it as soon as next...
(Reuters) – Workers in South Africa’s auto and gold industries will return to work this week after industrial action that led to work stoppages that crippled...
(Reuters) – Some South African gold miners have ended their call for higher wages and were heading back to work after just three days, bolstering confidence...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s main mining union has offered to compromise on some of its demands for higher pay after initiating industrial action and work stoppage...
Tens of thousands of gold miners in South Africa are set to industrial action Tuesday after wage talks broke down, threatening to cost millions of dollars...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela was discharged from the hospital on Sunday while...
The South African government will not intervene in deadlocked wage talks between gold producers and unions even as some producers prepare for work stoppages of up...
Hundreds of aircraft maintenance technicians with South Africa’s national airline downed tools on Monday in the round of industrial action to hit the country, a union...
Business leaders from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging economies met Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss trade with...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South Africa’s auto manufacturing industry came to a near standstill on Monday when about 30,000 workers...
(IANS) – Business leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa Monday to identify specific measures to eliminate...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/GettyImages Oscar Pistorius was indicted Monday on charges of murder and illegal...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health is slowly recovering but he remains in a...
(Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are...
Africans at Work. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa (Bloomberg Businessweek)- South African vehicle sales growth will probably ease to the slowest pace since a 2009 recession this year...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP AP – The office of the South African president says Nelson Mandela has made a “sustained improvement”...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – South Africa and the world showered tributes on Nelson Mandela on Thursday as the anti-apartheid...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela may be discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, a former president of South...
Sasol Gas Engine Power Plant located in Sasolburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Press release, 10 July 2013 at 9 am EET The largest power plant running exclusively...
Thousands of mineworkers at the world’s top platinum producer Anglo American Platinum in South Africa have returned to work after a brief wildcat strike, the company...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP A grandson of Nelson Mandela said Tuesday the ailing former president is very much alive, while the...
Some 5,600 mineworkers at the world’s top platinum producer Anglo American Platinum downed tools overnight at the firm’s South African operations, demanding the reinstatement of suspended...
FW de Klerk welcomes Nelson Mandela to his 70th birthday celebrations, March 18 2006. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/ Reuters Two former South African presidents bound together in the...
By Nicholas Sengoba The Western media took up these two issues with the usual manipulative aim of creating a new narrative. The story of South Africa...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is still clinging to life, his eldest daughter Makaziwe...
(Reuters) – Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have cut the number of new HIV infections in children by 50 percent since 2009, the United Nations AIDS...
Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Mineral Ltd. PHOTO/Simon Dawson/Getty Images Earlier this year we reported that South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe had pledged...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP A former South African president has said the health of Nelson Mandela is improving as the 94-year-old...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP The wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela says that love and generosity from across the...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela’s lengthy absence from the spotlight has forced his adoring country to envisage what their hard-won...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/GettyImages (Reuters) – A South African judge on Tuesday postponed until August...
(Reuters) – Miners at South Africa’s Anglo American Platinum operations will stage a work stoppage from Thursday evening over proposed job cuts, a branch official for...
South African workers of the world’s third largest platinum producer Lonmin have engaged in industrial action, halting all of the company’s mine operations and reigniting fears...
Anglo American’s platinum arm, under pressure from South Africa’s government, could announce a restructuring plan as early as Thursday that will sharply scale back job losses...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian Press Release The African National Congress welcomes the outcomes of the study by the University of...
The National Union of Mineworkers, an ally of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, said it will ask for a double-digit increase in pay when negotiating...
Anti-apartheid activist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu – PHOTO/Martin Meissner/AP A South African foundation says retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has checked into a Cape Town hospital for treatment...
The just concluded BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit concluded in Durban, South Africa calls for stronger partnerships, integration and industrialization to tackle various...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – PHOTO/Martin Meissner/AP (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid campaigner retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth US$1.7 million for...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – The condition of South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela has improved further, the government said...
Google’s first trial to use the unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum to provide wireless broadband access launched in 2010 in Logan, Ohio. Since then,...
The establishment of the BRICS bank will provide the emerging economies in Africa and the Caribbean with an alternative to the IMF and World Bank (Bloomberg)...
The new president of China, Xi Jinping, lands in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Sunday at the beginning of a three-country tour of Africa. He faces...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday for a “routine...
(Reuters) – South Africa, the continent’s top greenhouse gas producer, plans to tax carbon emissions from January 2015, but will introduce some exemptions to protect industry...
A recent report entitled “Emerging Markets Opportunity Index: high growth economies” has ranked South Africa as the leading emerging economy on the African continent, with Nigeria...
High level representatives of the African Union and African regional economic blocs have been invited to attend the the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s top platinum producer has revealed that it would cut 14,000 jobs in a broad restructuring of its strike-hit South African...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s recovery is ‘on track’ at his home in Johannesburg,...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released Wednesday from the hospital after being treated for a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African leader Nelson Mandela will probably spend Christmas Day in a hospital because his doctors...
A view of Auckland, New Zealand from Nigeria’s satellite – the NigeriaSat-X Economic Boom Fuels Ghana’s, Nigeria’s, Kenya’s —and Continent’s—dream of building telescopes and satellites to...
South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) political party says that nationalization of private businesses is “off the table.” Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba made the...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is spending a twelfth day in a South African hospital after being diagnosed...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to keep President Jacob Zuma as the head...
Police in South Africa say they have foiled a plot by white extremists to suspected of having weapons and planning attacks on undisclosed targets, a spokesman...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalized with a lung infection,...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP As the 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa’s democracy entered his seventh day of hospitalization Friday for a...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela “has made progress” in getting better after contracting a lung infection,...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though...
India may be the world leader in call centers but in South Africa the government is hoping to grow its own industry, so the person calling...
A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former President Nelson Mandela’s village crashed in a mountain range, killing all 11...
Folorunsho Alakija. PHOTO/CNN (PRWEB) – Oprah Winfrey is no longer the richest black woman in the world according to a report by Ventures Africa, an African...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File South Africa’s deputy president says he is “agonizing” over whether he would accept leading...
Spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama (r), presents the International Campaign for Tibet’s Light of Truth Award to South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu....
Sibongile Sambo, founder and CEO of SRS Aviation. PHOTO/sibongilesambo.co.za Pioneer female aviation entrepreneur Sibongile Sambo is the founder and CEO of SRS (Sibongile Rejoice Sambo) Aviation....
Africans at Work. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South Africa’s government is working with its partners to ensure that by the year 2020 some 1.2 million vehicles will...
Venus Williams and Serena Williams at a press conference in Johannesburg – South Africa. PHOTO/AP/Themba Hadebe Serena Williams delivered on her promise to avenge an earlier...
A budget airline in South Africa says that it has applied for liquidation. 1Time Airline said Friday that all of its operations have been grounded with...
Aliko Dangote, founder, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group Sephaku Cement- a subsidiary of Dangote Cement and an indigenous player in South Africa’s cement...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File As the labor unrest in the mining sector in South Africa eases, a politically battered but defiant President Jacob Zuma...
South Africa today indicted that it was ready to host a planned development bank for the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) grouping of...
(Reuters) – Workers have reached a deal with Anglo American Platinum to reinstate 12,000 miners sacked for an illegal strike, which could end the last big...
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) in South Africa has been rated the top business school in Africa at the 5th...
Striking South African gold miners have signed a pay deal to end months of labor unrest, the country’s main mining union and mine owners said on...
A rental company in Johannesburg, South Africa, is fighting an attempt by online giant eBay to shut down its RentBay website. Tenant Profile Network (TPN) received...
South African scientists have discovered how some people can make potent antibodies capable of neutralizing strains of HIV, taking researchers a step closer to developing a...
Striking miners at one of Gold Fields’ South Africa operations returned to work on Thursday, but there seems to be no end in sight to the...
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma., the new Chairperson of the African Union. PHOTO/File South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma took over as head of the African Union Commission Monday, becoming the...
(Reuters) – Truck drivers in South Africa have signed a wage deal to end a three-week strike, the freight employers group said on Friday, putting an...
South Africa’s gold mine owners and unions representing picketing workers said Wednesday they had reached a deal aimed at ending months of industrial unrest that has...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s transport union South African Transport & Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) and employers held wage talks on Tuesday trying to end a two-week-old...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote on Thursday sold 63 percent of Dangote Flour to South...
(Reuters) – Industrial action by South Africa’s platinum, gold, iron ore and diamond miners could spread to coal, potentially disrupting output from one of the world’s...
The South Africa government on Tuesday announced that it would help national carrier South African Airways with US$600 million of financing over two years, in a...
(Reuters) – Fuel suppliers in South Africa are starting to feel the pinch as industrial action by more than 20,000 truck drivers enters its second week,...
Disruptions to South Africa’s key mining sector increased as AngloGold Ashanti said Wednesday that strikers have halted all its operations in the country, which provide 32...
Striking platinum miners in South Africa have accepted an agreement for higher wages with London-registered Lonmin PLC and plan to return to work Thursday, a mediator...
(Reuters) – Two South African mines reopened on Monday after labor strife forced them to suspend operations last week, but striking miners vowed to keep operations...
South Africa’s government and striking miners hardened their stances Friday, with miners rejecting a Lonmin platinum mine wage offer far below their demand and President Jacob...
(Reuters) – A leader of major protest by platinum miners in South Africa called on Thursday for a national strike in the sector “to bring the...
Striking workers paralysed a gold mine in South Africa Monday, fueling fears that mounting discontent could spread to the entire mining sector and grip the country...
By Dawn Nagar and Mark Paterson As Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa could substantially enhance the continent’s development prospects — particularly if they...
(Reuters) – South African bullion miner Gold Fields said on Tuesday that trade union leadership intervention in a wildcat strike made a return to production more...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s gold mining companies have been hit by union demands for wage hikes but the industry has little room to budge as current...
A government tribunal fined South Africa’s Telkom SA Ltd. US$54.8 million Tuesday over a decade-long case alleging the company used its monopoly to put unfair prices...
South Africa’s Caster Semenya. PHOTO/File Caster Semenya will carry South Africa’s flag at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Semenya was given the honor Wednesday...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s schoolchildren sang happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he turned 94 on Wednesday, a day...
Phuti Mahanyele – CEO of Black Economic Empowerment Company Shanduka Group. PHOTO/Fati Moalusi Phuti Mahanyele wants to bring Africa the Big Mac. For two years, Ms....
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma., the new Chairperson of the African Union. PHOTO/File Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who has served in the cabinet of...
South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (l) and Incumbent African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping (r). PHOTO/File The battle for greater influence in Africa between Nigeria and South...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Mthombo oil refinery, Eastern Cape, South Africa. PHOTO/http://www.sxc.hu (Reuters) – Black ownership of fuel companies operating in South Africa is far below state-mandated targets agreed in...
The launch of the BRICS development bank in South Africa would provide Africa, the Caribbean and other emerging countries an alternative to the Western dominated Bretton...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) began a key policy conference Tuesday that pushes for a “second transition” to give black people more ownership of...
South Africa’s US$ 2 billion commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) emergency resources fund a sign of the country’s ability to assist in efforts to...
(Reuters) – Shares in Telkom SA Ltd., surged nearly 8 percent in early trade on Tuesday after a report said its top shareholder, the South African...
South Africa’s Caster Semenya. PHOTO/File Former world champion Caster Semenya made South Africa’s initial team for the London Olympics, but double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius still hasn’t...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s elite Hawks police unit has opened an investigation into allegations of corruption at mobile phone giant MTN relating to its purchase of...
South Africa’s fixed line operator Telkom on Friday announced that plans for a partnership with South Korea’s telecom operator KT will not go ahead after Pretoria...
(Reuters)- African mobile operator MTN said on Tuesday it is working with U.S. authorities to manage compliance with sanctions against Iran, one of its biggest markets....
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) was ranked the top South African and African business school in the annual UK Financial Times...
(Reuters) – “There’s more to life than gross domestic product (GDP),” is a favorite refrain of left-leaning social commentators and environmental activists. But when it comes...
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela South African unions and big business are united in opposition to proposed tolls to pay for road...
The South African province of Gauteng sees Georgia as a place to begin erasing the negative stereotypes that can keep Americans from investing in their country....
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela (Africa Review) – South African authorities have bowed to public pressure and postponed the April 30 launch...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A growing middle class has fueled Africa’s fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to...
Botswana’s big idea for diversification of the largely mineral-dependent economy is the establishment of a world-class financial services hub in the capital city, Gaborone, to develop...
(Reuters)- High commodity prices will buoy much of sub-Saharan Africa in 2012, but South Africa will continue to stumble due to its deep ties to crisis-ridden...
South Africa’s Caster Semenya. PHOTO/File Caster Semenya retained her 800-meter title at the South African championships on Saturday but was still well off the qualifying time...
Zimbabwe has set sights on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging world economic powerhouses as a source of trade and...
