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/ 27 January 2009
Southern African leaders on Tuesday gave Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai until mid-February to form a unity government.
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/ 26 January 2009
Southern African leaders opened fresh talks on Monday to end Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
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/ 25 January 2009
Leaders will meet on Monday in a push to salvage Zimbabwe’s unity deal, four months after Robert Mugabe an Morgan Tsvangirai agreed to share power.
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/ 9 September 2008
Angola opposition party Unita acknowledged defeat in last week’s election, as the ruling MPLA savoured an overwhelming win.
Talks on Zimbabwe’s political crisis broke up on Tuesday in South Africa as negotiators flew home to resolve a deadlock over power-sharing.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela turns 90 on Friday amid an avalanche of birthday wishes for the world’s best-loved statesman.
It was just a farm, but what went on there was extraordinary: Nelson Mandela, disguised in blue overalls, plotting with other anti-apartheid leaders against South Africa’s racist regime.
South Africa, producer of 30% of the gold in circulation today, is unable to profit fully from record prices for the precious metal as a crippling electricity crisis hampers production. The price of gold passed the 000-an-ounce mark for the first time on Thursday.
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/ 10 January 2008
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Jacob Zuma makes his first keynote speech as African National Congress (ANC) leader on Saturday amid forecasts his election as head of South Africa’s ruling party will herald the biggest bout of turbulence since apartheid. All eyes will be on whether Zuma proffers an olive branch towards President Thabo Mbeki or stakes his claim as head of a rival centre of power.
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/ 2 December 2007
South Africa’s powerful mining union will stage its first nationwide strike of the post-apartheid era on Tuesday in a signal that patience over the industry’s safety record has reached breaking point. About 250 000 miners are to down tools in a protest union chiefs say could be intensified if employers do not make significant inroads into the levels of fatalities.