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South Africa 2010 World Cup could be affected by global financial crisis
South Africa may escape the global financial crisis, but it could affect foreigners planning to visit South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, according...
Xenophobic attacks making a comeback in S. Africa
As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in...
FIFA and Miss World group to stage Confederations Cup draw
The eight Miss World candidates from the respective participating countries and continents will lend a helping hand during the draw in South Africa Saturday...
S. Africa asks Mugabe to grow up and withholds aid to Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF government has been rocked by an announcement made by South African government days before another round of power-sharing talks, which could...
Football: Bafana Bafana thrashes Cameroon in Nelson Mandela Challenge
South Africa's preparations for the 2010 World Cup received a major boost on Wednesday night when the team secured an impressive 3-2 win against...
Government of Mauritius to ban all forms of direct or indirect discrimination
The Mauritian government will next Tuesday table a bill in parliament banning any form of direct or indirect discrimination on the island. According to...
“Tribute to Miriam Makeba” from Manu Debango
Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango has paid a glowing tribute to South African singer Miriam Makaba, who died of heart attack last Sunday in Italy...
Legendary singer Miriam Makeba’s remains billed to return to South Africa on Wednesday
South African Ambassador to Italy Lenin Shope has confirmed that the remains of South Africa's legendary singer and Goodwill Ambassador Miriam Makeba were billed...
Miriam “Mama” Makeba : The passing of an African legend
One of South Africa’s celebrated singer Miriam "Mama" Makeba has died. Makeba died in Italy overnight aged 76 after...
DR Congo crisis : S Africa calls for dialogue instead of military solution
There is no military solution to the problem s of the DR Congo (DRC), South African President Kgalema Motlanthe warned Sunday as he opened...
Thabo Mbeki accused of 330,000 deaths
Thabo Mbeki’s who failed to provide appropriate drugs between 2000 and 2005, and took a decision to block HIV medication caused over 300, 000...
Zimbabwe talks : Zuma zooms in
Zimbabwe's economic crisis has forced millions of its citizens to flee the
country, with an estimated three million Zimbabweans in neighbouring South
Africa alone.
South African African...
Two day polling exercise begins in South Africa
Registration for South Africa’s crucial general elections next year kicks off this weekend in polls that are set to be tightly contested...
Nelson Mandela congratulates Barack Obama
World statesman Nelson Mandela has added his voice to those of many South African leaders who have congratulated US president elect Barack Obama on...
“SADC has to use leverage on Mugabe” at next summit
Southern African leaders will once again gather in South Africa Sunday to push for an an elusive breakthrough in to the Zimbabwe crisis....
ANC to contest breakaway party’s acronym
The ANC breakaway group, which was the weekend struggling to come up with a name has settled on SA Democratic Congress as its...
Mbeki declines ANC and New Party offers and forms his own
Former president Thabo Mbeki has declined overtures from the ANC and the breakaway group. Reports today say, instead, he will be forming his own...
Mugabe’s shameless passport gimmick with Tsvangirai : SADC looks the other way
Southern African leaders have vowed not be involved in the dispute in which MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been denied a passport by...
S A elephant tusk sale to China and Japan breed doubt
In a bid to raise money for elephant conservation projects, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe yesterday, put on auction over a 100 tonnes...
S Africa to fund Zimbabwean agriculture amid fears of famine
The South African government has agreed to give Zimbabwe R300 million (US$30 million) in agricultural input financing support for the main summer cropping season...
S A to offset growth rate by borrowing more for infrastructure
South Africa is to put its 15-year-old strategy of fiscal prudence to the test after it announced a sharp rise in borrowing to fund...
A paralysed ego and Zimbabwe talks on a bus to nowhere
Thabo Mbeki, the disgraced former president of South Africa and the SADC-anointed mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis spent four days last week in Harare,...
ANC : ‘The dogs have left’
The ANC Women's League says it is glad that “ the dogs “ have left the party. In apparent reference to rebels...
Botswana authorities not renewing expatriate work permits
Over 150 expatriates are being forced out of Botswana after their work permits were refused renewal, the local press reported. There are allegations that...
SADC : Mugabe government illegitimate but not that illegitimate
The Southern African Development Community has acknowledged in a legal document that it widely felt concerns that Robert Mugabe should not be recognised as...
Former ANC demands a formal explanation for his suspension
Former African National Congress chair Mosiuoa Lekota, the man said to be on the verge of forming a splinter ANC on...
Mugabe swears in ministers ahead of Mbeki talks
Brushing aside a stand off with the opposition over cabinet posts in a new unity government, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe swore in two vice...
Mbeki holds power sharing talks with Zimbabwean leaders
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki holds talks in Harare Monday morning on a salvage mission of a shaky power-sharing agreement.
Mbeki, accompanied by...
Zimbabweans charged with murder of Indian and South African in Botswana
Three Zimbabweans in Botswana including a woman are facing death sentence as they are accused of first degree murder. They are...
Mrs Mbeki says ANC split is a “first class idea”
Dethroned South African president Thabo Mbeki's mother has okayed the speculated break away ANC saying its "first-class idea" and she would join it.
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