African Bank Investments aims to raise R4-billion through a Goldman Sachs rights offering and the sale of furniture retailer Ellerines.
Egypt’s army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs on Saturday of a readiness to compromise.
Tens of thousands of Tunisians came out in a show of force for the country’s Islamist-led government on Saturday.
Robert Mugabe was declared winner of Zimbabwe’s election on Saturday, but his rival Morgan Tsvangirai said he would challenge the result.
Russia has rejected US pleas and granted Edward Snowden a year’s asylum, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport.
The rand has fallen through the psychologically important level of 10 to the dollar, with upbeat expectations about US jobs data expected later.
Edward Snowden’s father has not turned down a request from the FBI to fly to Moscow, saying he is waiting to find out what the FBI’s intentions are.
Edward Snowden says he is willing to agree to a request by the FBI to fly to Moscow to see his son, but first needs to know what it wants.
US soldier Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty of most of the other 20 criminal counts against him.
WikiLeaks whistle-blower and US soldier Bradley Manning will learn his fate today after being charged with putting US national security at risk.