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SADC extraordinary Zim summit to preceed G20 summit
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will this month convene an extraordinary summit to discuss Zimbabwe’s appeal for financial support after a decade of...
Motlanthe rebukes ANC youth leader for verbal diarrhea
African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema can always be “taken by the ear” and brought into line, South African president Kgalema Motlanthe...
South Africa records negative growth rate for the first time in 10 years
For the first time in 10 years, South Africa has recorded a negative growth in the last quarter of 2008. According to figures, published...
Repairing Zimbabwe’s economy: Tsvangirai gives verdict on Rand as legal tender
Zimbabwe may need over US$5 billion as well as foreign direct investments to rebuild its economy, The Financial Times has reported. As for the...
Motlanthe – Tsvangirai set to nationalise Rand in Zim
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was on Friday expected to leave for South Africa in a bid to seek the officialisation of the use of...
Loxion management: hidden source of S. African crime?
In the run-up to South Africa's general elections in April, job creation has become a hot political topic in a country where analysts have...
Nelson Mandela: “I will remain ANC”
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has pledged his support for the African National Congres in the coming watershed elections.
On Sunday, scores of African...
South African rand now the new Zimbabwean dollar
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe has said troubled Zimbabwe could adopt the South African rand as its standard currency."We have to help them so...
No escape for S. Africa: Recession and 250,000 job cuts
South Africa’s president warned on Friday that the economy was being badly hit by the global slowdown and outlined plans to increase public investment...
South Africa: End of a global golden reign?
The ammonia still hangs heavy in the air from the last blast. Drenched in sweat, the faces of the miners on the morning shift...
Zuma to return to court as President in August?
ANC president Jacob Zuma has vowed not to recuse himself as the party's presidential candidate saying that will be tantamount to pleading guilty to...
ANC attacks a quarrelsome Incatha Freedom Party
South Africa’s ruling party. African National Congress (ANC), on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the country’s Independent Electoral Commission about violence in Durban (Nongoma),...
Lekota believes ANC wants to custom-fit constitution
Mosiuoa Lekota, the leader of the newly formed South African party has accused the ruling ANC of undermining democracy by seeking a political...
Reserve Bank officials pounce on South African farmer’s property
Last Sunday he had to slaughter 1000 of his pigs and feed the meat to crocodiles because farm invaders had decided that no pig...
Winnie Mandela’s criminal record bars her from politics?
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's, the ex-wife to Neslon Mandela’s criminal record could bar her from running for Parliament in the upcoming elections.
The African National Congress spokesperson...
Confusing reports emerge from MDC and Zanu-PF deal
South African police yesterday opened fire on a group of MDC-T supporters who attempted to break into Union Buildings, venue of the Sadc Extraordinary...
South African opposition sees the big picture
The breakaway party was formed in response to ANC moves to oust Thabo Mbeki as president last September and back ANC leader Jacob Zuma’s...
HIV positive rape victim “had a nice time with Zuma”…?
An anti-rape group in South Africa on Friday slammed comments by ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, who suggested that the woman who...
Settting the stage for a bruising Zuma – Mbeki encounter
When High Court judge Chris Nicholson ruled last year that Thabo Mbeki had used ‘presidential powers’ to influence South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority’s(NPA)...
Desmond Tutu on hunger strike for Zimbabwe
Scores of high-profile personalities, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will embark on a hunger strike until a solution to the Zimbabwean crisis is found.
Save Zimbabwe...
ANC to tamper with constitution for Zuma’s immunity?
Jacob Zuma, the clear frontrunner to become South Africa’s next president following elections due within weeks, will go into the campaign facing corruption charges...
Zuma’s biography: An asset or a liability?
A corrupt careerist, a veteran womaniser and a puppet of the left whose trademark song is “Bring me my machine gun”: Jacob Zuma, the...
From Beijing 2008 to South africa 2010, China to provide S. Africa with guidelines
South Africa can draw valuable lessons from China as it prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, according to KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele, who...
ANC takes new opposition party COPE threats seriously
Thousands of delegates cheered South Africa’s newest political party on Tuesday as it launched its campaign to break the ruling African National Congress’s stranglehold...
South Africa’s new party COPE set to shake ANC’s hegemony
A new party is set to shake South African ruling partys 14 year hegemony in the countrys next elections is expected to take place...
Nelson Mandela receives first Club of Madrid Democratic Leadership Award
Former South African President, Nelson Mandela received the first Club of Madrid Democratic Leadership Award, Monday. According to the group the former President of...
Food aid could escalate Zimbabwe cholera crisis
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is in danger of being worsened further by the
distribution of much-needed food aid, it has been warned.
Aid organisations are implementing emergency...
South Africa to issue free visas for FIFA 2009 Confederation Cup and 2010 World Cup
South African Home Affairs ministry announced, Tuesday, that it will be giving free event visas into South Africa for visitors with valid tickets for...
Jacob Zuma now Jesus Christ?
A senior African National Congress official has likened his president Jacob Zuma treatment which he called "persecution:" to that of Jesus Christ.
Ace Magashule,...
S. Africa and E. Guinea fight for Nigeria Falcons’ lost title
The Super Falcons of Nigerian who until now were known as the African football queens for winning every continental female football tournament have been...