South Africa’s membership of the bloc of leading emerging economies and its unique position in Africa heralded the country’s role as a gateway into the African...
(Reuters) – A South African lawyer said on Tuesday he was preparing a class action lawsuit against leading gold mining firms on behalf of thousands of...
Phase 15 and 16 of South Pars gas field development in the Iranian port town of Asaluyeh. PHOTO/Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images South Africa hopes to have a...
MTN Group head quarters in Johannesburg. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – South African mobile phone operator MTN Group on Monday accused rival Turkcell of using the threat of...
A South African court approved on Friday Walmart‘s US$2.2 billion takeover of local chain Massmart, giving the world’s biggest retailer its first foothold in Africa. The...
South Africa apologized Thursday for a mass deportation of Nigerians, trying to contain a diplomatic spat that has again focused attention on its sometimes strained relations...
A series of airport deportations by South African and Nigerian authorities has sparked a growing diplomatic row between the two African nations. Last week, South Africa...
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela South Africa’s powerful Cosatu labor federation vowed Tuesday to rally more than 100,000 protesters against new toll...
Zimbabwe’s heavyweight neighbour South Africa on Monday dismissed a push by President Robert Mugabe for new polls without long-delayed reforms required by the country’s unity deal....
South Africa celebrate ODI series win over New Zealand. PHOTO/Cricket365 Marchant de Lange took four wickets as South Africa completed a 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand...
Nigeria’s Arik Air said it will resume daily flights to Johannesburg Saturday, 24 hours after suspending them in protest over South Africa’s refusal to let in...
(Reuters) – U.S. car giant General Motors (GM) has agreed to pay a symbolic sum of up to US$1.5 million to victims of South Africa’s apartheid-era...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela underwent minor surgery to determine the cause of a stomach complaint...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (pictured), has been hospitalized with a stomach ailment, according to a government statement issued Saturday about the 93-year-old anti-apartheid icon....
South Africa has moved one step closer to a National Health Insurance scheme (universal health care), with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announcing a R121 billion (US$15.6...
Nationalization is not an option for South Africa’s troubled mining industry, the country’s mining minister told an international audience Tuesday. A nationalization debate within mining minister...
Caster Semenya. PHOTO/Getty Images (Reuters) – Caster Semenya, South Africa’s former 800 metre women’s world champion, will scale back her competitive races this year so that...
(Reuters) – African countries can prepare for the impact of the euro-zone crisis that threatens to derail economic growth on the continent by improving trade between...
IMF Head Christine Lagarde (l) with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters It was a hot summer day when Christine Lagarde, the head of the International...
South Africa President., Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union (AU)...
(Reuters) – Investors should forget China and park their money in sub-Saharan Africa if they wish to benefit from the growth in emerging markets, the chief...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
A man receives a monthly supply of food aid donated to residents of a squatter camp for poor white South Africans. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) When stories are...
Africa’s first elected female president headed toward easy re-election Tuesday with her sole opponent boycotting Liberia’s runoff, and ignoring entreaties from the United States and the...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s Allied Technologies Ltd., is in talks to pay up to US$60 million for unlisted Kenyan IT firm Symphony, according to a person...
(Reuters) – Central Africa’s six-nation Economic Community of Central African States (CEMAC) economic bloc will see economic growth of about 4.8 percent this year, the regional...
Lindiwe Mazibuko Picture: Gallo Images/Foto24/Nasief Manie South Africa’s main opposition party has for the first time elected a black woman to lead it in parliament. Thursday’s...
South Africa’s president says he has suspended the national police chief and fired two Cabinet ministers implicated in graft. In an announcement Monday aired live on...
Cooling Towers, Soweto, South Africa South Africa has signed a work plan with the International Energy Agency (IEA) that will see the country step closer to...
Telkom South Africa Ltd., Africa’s biggest fixed-line phone company, said Korea Telecom (KT) Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet operator, may acquire a 20 percent...
Nigeria Soccer Team (Reuters) – Nigeria and South Africa were among the heavyweight casualties on the penultimate day of African Nations Cup qualifying as Angola, Ghana,...
Ntsiki Biyela, a winemaker, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. – Photo by: Robin Hammond New York Times News Service A new class of wine makers is emerging...
Black South Africans own at least 17 percent of the 100 top companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), according to an initial study, the...
South Africa and Zambia have approved the US$1.1 billion bid by China’s Jinchuan Group for copper and cobalt producer Metorex, bringing closer prospects for the deal...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu says the country’s governing ANC party is worse than the apartheid regime for delaying...
A South African arms company has unveiled what it calls the first all-African military plane. Johannesburg-based Paramount Group boss Ivor Ichikowitz, showing reporters the AHRLAC on...
Vodacom of South Africa is currently in discussions with Telekom Networks Malawi Ltd. (TNM) about buying a stake in the company. This has been revealved by...
South Africa recently launched a bidding process for renewable energy that will lead to the addition of 3,725 megawatts of green energy to the national grid...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find...
Activist retired Bishop Desmond Tutu (pictured), said South Africa’s government will “shoot themselves in the foot” if they deny a visa to the Dalai Lama to...
South African retailer Woolworths will open 16 new stores in other Africa countries this financial year, it said on Friday, as part of the group’s plan...
President Jacob Zuma (pictured), has encouraged the instrospection of black business organizations, called for non-racial business unity and decried the absence of black industrialists “who own...
The South African government wants police access to the encrypted messenger service on BlackBerry devices. South African officials speaking at a telecommunications conference in London say...
JOHANNESBURG — A South African legislator says he won’t wear the national Springboks jersey during the Rugby World Cup because the garments were made in China...
Patrice Motsepe (pictured), mining magnate and joint chairman of the India-South Africa CEOs’ Forum, has ousted steel giant Lakshmi Mittal as South Africa’s wealthiest person. Although...
South Africa’s government is calling for more guarantees that Walmart’s foray into the country will not hit local suppliers and cause job losses. One minister has...
Ellis Park Stadium – Johannesburg South Africa is to take over from Libya as hosts of the 2013 African Nations Cup finals in a swap agreement...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria has launched two observation satellites into orbit, eight years after launching its first satellite. President Goodluck Jonathan said Wednesday on the state-run...
South Africa’s MTN Group said it will roll out Opera Software’s mobile browser in Africa and the Middle East, to offer faster web access in countries...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive a new opera about South Africa's...
JOHANNESBURG — South African officials say they will build a dedicated museum honoring Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid, on the site where he was arrested 49...
JOHANNESBURG — Union officials say South African gold miners will return to work this evening after ending a five-day strike. Spokesman Lesiba Seshoka says the mining...
South Africa’s power utility Eskom on Friday increased its wage offer to unionised workers, trying to head off a strike that could cut power to Africa’s...
With Cameroon set to start exporting billion-dollar uranium deposits from next year, environmental concerns over the mining area are already rearing their head. Exploration by Canadian-registered...
Employers in South Africa’s fuel industry are meeting with unions on Monday in a bid to end a week-long strike that has left hundreds of fuel...
Happy Birthday Madiba!
He used to be dismissed as an ignorant buffoon, whose populist ranting and colourful racist tirades usefully filled newspaper column inches on a dull day. But...
Ford Motor Company this week announced the completion of a two-year, US$500-million upgrade of its manufacturing and assembly plants in South Africa to enable it to produce and...
The debate about nationalisation of South Africa‘s mines could hit companies’ ability to raise capital for sustaining or growing output, the Business Day reported on Wednesday....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A new Nelson Mandela book, slim, bound in black and set in eye-straining type, looks a bit like a bible or a prayer...
Despite having received only one finalist nomination, Ghana shone at the African Business Awards 2011 because of one business leader and a young but dynamic company....
First lady Michelle Obama arrived in South Africa on Monday for the start of a weeklong trip that officials have said will focus on youth leadership...
