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Swine flu – A/H1N1 influenza: 2010 World Cup threatened?
Has the swine flu become the number one enemy among football fans across the world? The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that it...
South Africa’s 1st post apartheid recession, a new President and an angry population
Strikes and demonstrations are on the increase in South Africa. After violent demonstrations from township populations, civil servants Tuesday continued demonstrations for a second...
South Africa: Civil servants embark on an indefinite strike
More than 150 000 South Africa civil servants Monday embarked on a nationwide strike to demand a 15% increase in their wages. The unions...
South Africa – Zimbabwe border fences disappear: Opposition expresses fears
Large sections of the border security fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe have been stolen as the South African police have reduced patroling the...
After London and Paris, Venus regains her dignity, but how much?
She was called The Hottentot Venus, for her civil status she was Saartjie (Sara) Baartman. Sent back to South Africa, her homeland, to be...
Renewed South African xenophobic violence: Zuma vows crackdown, rioters unrelenting
Violent protests have erupted in townships across South Africa over poor delivery of basic services and foreigners have again been caught up...
HIV/AIDS: First South African vaccine being tested in Cape Town and Soweto
The scientific community won’t be bogged down after the initial failure of an experimental HIV vaccine developed by the U.S. laboratory Merck & Co....
South Africa: first AIDS vaccine test begins
University of Cape Town has developed a vaccine against HIV / AIDS in partnership with the National Institute of Health from the US. According...
Happy Birthday Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela
South African anti-apartheid icon celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday. The event was marked with festive activities in Johannesburg and New York. This year,...
South Africa: Zuma under fire for supporting AU stance on Omar Bashir
Pressure is mounting on South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma to distance himself from the African Union (AU) decision to ignore the arrest...
South Africans prepare to celebrate Mandela Day, but grandson fights rumours over selling funeral rights
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has called on his fellow countrymen to dedicate time to serving their communities as his life is celebrated...
Send a direct SMS to US President Barack Obama
Since Friday, Africans are able to directly question U.S. President Obama via SMS ahead of his July 11 visit to Ghana. The White House...
South Africa-Mozambique: One man’s fight against human trafficking
A casual conversation in a Pretoria, South Africa, café launched a dangerous investigation by Inácio Sebastião Mussanhane, a lawyer from Mozambique who was studying...
South Africa tackles its first case of ‘Swine Flu’ A(H1N1)
South Africa's health department friday said it had recorded its first case of the 'swine flu' A (H1N1) influenza virus. The announcement came...
South Africa: Bafana Bafana’s blackmail embarrasses Confederations Cup organisers
With only five days before Confederations Cup in South Africa kicks
off, players for the host’s have embarked on an embarrassing training
boycott as they are...
South African revenue services to tax all footballers participating in the Fifa Confederations Cup
South African taxmen have said they would be out in full force to collect tax from soccer stars in SA for the Fifa Confederations...
CAN Zonal Qualifications – World Cup 2010: Full results of June 6 and 7 matches
Surprises and confirmations this weekend. Gabon is on a winning spree. Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Ghana have also won their matches, while...
South Africa: Zuma’s about-turn decision to unite ANC?
South African president Jacob Zuma has told one of his most powerful allies, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), that he is...
Fifa WC 2010: Zimbabwe hotels lower rates, mock Botswana decision
After realizing the huge amounts they would have lost hotels in Zimbabwe have made a sharp u-turn and are now reconsidering their pricing after...
A contemptible service industry for SA 2010 World Cup
A large neon digital counter in the bustling walkways of Oliver Tambo International Airport at Johannesburg reminds visitors that the FIFA World Cup 2010...
Zimbabwe: Freakish greed deals blow to world cup deal
A high level of greed by Zimbabwe hoteliers has cost the bankrupt country a rare chance of cashing in on the 2010 World...
Several bodies of South African Zimbabwean miners recovered after mining disaster
South African authorities have recovered 61 bodies of illegal gold miners who died at the weekend at a disused gold mine. Tom Smith, head...
South African Doctors and Bus drivers earn the same
Junior doctors in South Africa are paid as much as bus drivers, the opposition Democratic Alliance said today.
Reports today say Mike Waters, the party's...
Helen Zille blames Zuma for strange sexual behaviour
South Africa's new leader Jacob Zuma is a bad example to the country's youth due to his much publicised sex life, an opposition leader...
South Africa: Minister of Transport gives back a car gift
As part of the fight against corruption, a subject that is dear to new South African president, Jacob Zuma, the Minister of Transport "Sbu"...
Ticket-addled SA soccer fans force FIFA to modify rules
Football governing body Fifa is reported to have admitted that the slow pace of ticket sales for next month’s Confederations Cup had made it...
Pro-Zuma ‘soldiers’ threaten SA minority leader Zille
South African opposition leader Helen Zille has been threatened by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association to render the Western Cape...
Zuma overhauls cabinet, no place for Winnie Mandela
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has described as "well-balanced" the Cabinet appointed by President Jacob Zuma. Zuma made sweeping changes to...
South Africa: The King is dead, long live the King!
South African President-elect Jacob Zuma assumes political power on Saturday, 9 May 2009 riding on a sixty-five percent-but-less-than-two-thirds majority mandate. Shortly after the pomp...
South Africa: Confusion at the top over deputy president
South Africa preseident in waiting Jacob Zuma is racing aganist time to nominate his deputy amid reports today that top officials in the African...