Africa’s biggest iron ore producer Kumba Iron Ore forecast lower than expected first-half earnings per share, triggering a 4% fall in its shares.
Durban businesses on Wednesday reported that up to 80% of their workers failed to turn up ahead of the planned Cosatu protest.
The Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday questioned SABC CEO Dali Mpofu’s lawyer about Mpofu’s conduct during a board meeting where he was suspended.
Suspected Janjaweed militia have ambushed the beleaguered United Nations mission in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.
Police were on Wednesday searching for body parts that were sliced off three corpses at a Pietermaritzburg mortuary.
Large numbers of awaiting-trial prisoners appear to be the reason for South Africa’s grossly overcrowded prisons, some by more than 300% of capacity.
Three gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed on Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint outside the US consulate in Istanbul.
Even by the standards of international trade and diplomacy, the Group of Eight’s language can be unusual, and sometimes downright weird.
Times are tougher than Vernon Koekemoer’s biceps for South Africans at the moment, yet many of us are slipping further into debt.
A German cargo freighter hijacked off the Somali coast in May has been released and its crew freed unharmed, its owner said on Wednesday.