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South Africa: Jacob Zuma and Omar Bashir to meet?
South Africa's new president, Jacob Zuma, is set to be inaugurated on Saturday amid a serious diplomatic dilemma involving the South African administration after...
Zimbabwe to provide substantial hotel beds for South Africa 2010 World Cup visitors
According to official reports from Zimbabwe, South Africa has demanded some 40 000 (3 to 5 star) hotel beds ahead of the 2010 World...
South Africa: Zuma’s first ladies, a real headache !
In South Africa, the question of Zuma’s first lady is a best selling tabloid news headline and has triggered as much public interest as...
Swine flu: All eyes on an unprepared South Africa
South Africa, the country with the most resources in Africa, has two suspected cases of swine flu, but does not have adequate supplies of...
Confederations Cup: FIFA warns of possible cases of swine flu in South Africa
FIFA announced Wednesday that it was monitoring the suspected cases of swine flu reported in South Africa, six weeks ahead of the Confederations Cup....
South African swine flu cases: “No need to panick”
South Africa says it suspects two cases of swine flu, however, health authorities have said they are confident that SA will be able to...
Swine flu: South Africa not affected
The South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases has said there are no reports of swine flu in the country, despite the growing unease...
South Africa Elections: Great victory for the ANC
The official results of the South African general elections held on April 22, 2009, saw the African National Congress (ANC) in the lead with...
Zuma predicts 70% ANC win in South African elections
In coming South Africa president Jacob Zuma last night told hundreds of African National Congress supporters that the party is like a lion that...
Zimbabwe: Unity gov’t on the brink, MDC calls for Mbeki
One of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) senior facilitators of the inclusive government negotiations between Zanu-PF and the two factions of the opposition...
South Africa elections: Early count show wide ANC lead
About two million votes were counted in South Africa’s the national elections by 6.15am on Thursday morning. The results, which put the ANC far...
South Africa: Thabo Mbeki not sure of a Zuma win?
Former South African Thabo Mbeki said "God knows, I don’t know." when asked who he thought was going to win the elections...
South Africa: Stolen ballots discovered amid Protests
Millions of South Africans go to the polls today in the most hotly contested general election since the advent of black majority rule in...
South Africa: That Africa that is not really African
South Africa’s economy is the largest on the entire African continent. Considered as an emerging economy due to its economic performance, it is by...
COPE threat sees Zuma begging for massive ANC support
South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma has called for a massive turnout at an election on Wednesday to give his ruling party a...
South African Elections: Another victory for Jacob Zuma
More than 23 million South Africans will go to the polls on Wednesday to elect their members of parliament for the fourth time since...
Mbeki out of SADC talks, Mugabe summons PMs on GPA
A Southern African Development Community delegation is expected in Harare Tuesday for talks in a bid to avoid a collapse on the fragile...
Zuma, Mandela, Jesus and an uncertain ANC future
Just days ahead of his near-certain victory in South Africa’s elections, Jacob Zuma on Sunday pledged radical social improvements for the poor and said...
Tough land reforms in South Africa
Land in South Africa remains principally in the hands of white landowners fifteen years after the end of apartheid. In full campaign for the...
S. Africa votes but is it slipping into the African curse?
A South African presidential candidate has warned that his country
risks being a one-party state, a system that has ruined many African
countries.
Bishop Mvume Dandala,...
South Africa Trade Unions threaten France for apology
A member South Africa’s Young Communist League was sent back to South Africa from France as he arrived in the French capital to attend...
S. Africa votes: London, Canberra, Dubai top voters’ list
South Africa's s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) today announced that about 16 240 voters people in London have registered for next
Wednesday's presidential...
Ex-South African police chief to stand trial
Former South African police chief and close Thabo Mbeki ally, Jackie Selebi, is set to stand trial for accepting bribes of up to about...
Apartheid: IBM, GM, FORD on the accused bench
The American justice system Wednesday gave the green light to victims of apartheid to begin legal proceedings against some highly reputed multinational corporations in...
South Africa: Thabo Mbeki denies involvement in Zuma case in a strong statement
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has denied his involvement in the Jacob Zuma corruption case less than two weeks before the country's general...
Neighbours give South Africa electricity for 2010 WC
Southern African countries have signed a deal to put in place an emergency supply of thousands of megawatts of electricity to South Africa during...
Zuma the Zulu politician with “nine lives” celebrated
Jacob Zuma's rural village burst into song and dance when the news that their son has been set cleared of all charges aganist him....
South Africa: FW De Klerk wants the court’s decision to drop Zuma charges challenged
Former south African President Mr. FW De Klerk has indicated that the court's decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma, leader of ANC, will...
South Africa braces for fuel shortages… Officials cry foul
South Africa service stations could run dry as more than 30,000 allied workers union members prepare to go on strike over a wage dispute.
The...
Charges dropped or not, Zuma’s image is still tarnished
South Africa president in waiting Jcob Zuma is a free man. Prosecutors dropped all corruption charges against him ending a long legal battle that...