Developments in Zimbabwe are having an adverse effect on South Africa and causing it considerable problems, a government-business forum agreed this weekend.
A Tongaat man was shot dead and his son injured on their sugar cane plantation in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning, police said.
DEFENCE Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has stated publicly that the government’s attempts to end the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe had failed, his representative said on Saturday.
The Organisation of African Unity’s Council of Ministers began meeting in Durban on Sunday night in preparation for the launch of the African Union, which will replace the 53-member OAU on July 9.
South Africa’s first Beer Route was launched on Wednesday by the KwaZulu-Natal tourism department in conjunction with five independent micro breweries.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Tuesday strongly criticised the proposed new Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill, saying it undermined the Mbeki administration’s commitment to an open economy in a globalised environment.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Friday night condemned ”bully states” that attempted to coerce other countries and even international organisations into doing their bidding.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi gave his support on Friday to a campaign promoting abstinence from sex, presiding over a ceremony where abstaining youngsters were rewarded for their self-discipline.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a trade war on one of the world’s leading coffee producers, Nestle.
African nations on Tuesday signalled their intention to deal decisively with illegitimate regimes on the continent by barring Madagascar from the soon-to-be-launched African Union.
Two of the architects of an ambitious rescue plan for Africa will take centre at the World Economic Forum in Durban.
MORE weapons, not fewer, were needed to fight crime and political instability in South Africa and Africa, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota told a meeting of church leaders in Durban on Friday, the SABC reported.
The ashes of a South African man considered to be the ”last hero of the Titanic” will be scattered off the country’s east coast after his death last month at age 104, a relative said Thursday.
The Durban-based Sunni Ulama Council of South Africa has rejected the views of a Saudi Grand Mufti that the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed was heresy as it mimicked Christmas.
African foreign ministers were on Wednesday ready to begin refining the nuts and bolts for the launch of the African Union next week.
At least 5,7-million children in South Africa, roughly a third of those under 18, would have lost one or both parents from Aids by 2015.
Environmental activists Greenpeace on Wednesday invaded the property of a oil refinery in Durban to demand clean energy.
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, was expected to arrive at Durban harbour at 3pm on Sunday, Greenpeace representative Sara Holden said.
Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a house building project to provide 100 homes in Durban, calling on volunteers ”to get their hands dirty”.
The Shell oil company, far from being reborn as an
environmentally conscious energy firm, continues to pollute the environment, Durban environmental activists said on Tuesday.
SOUTH AFRICA was the only tourism destination in the world to have increased its market share after the terror attacks on the United States on September 11 last year, Tourism Minister Valli Moosa said at the weekend.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said Anglo American had offered his government -million to offset its withdrawal from troubled Konkola Copper Mines (KCM).
It is too early to use Zimbabwe as a test case for the peer review mechanism proposed in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
Six people were rushed to a Richards Bay hospital in
KwaZulu-Natal after a Puma helicopter crashed on the deck of the Jolly Rubino trawler on Saturday morning, government officials said.
A bomb exploded at the Umtamvuna bridge near the Wild Coast Sun casino and hotel complex on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday
The African Union (AU) will not merely be a continuation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) under a different name, acting Foreign Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Thursday.
The reshuffle of the provincial cabinet by the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) KwaZulu Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali was described this afternoon by the African National Congress (ANC) as ”unilateral”. The ANC loses two of its four posts in the cabinet to the DA.
The transporting of toxic chemicals around the world in ships should be scrapped, Earthlife Africa eThekwini Branch said Monday.
Africa needs to create some 100-million jobs in the next ten years to give work to new entrants into the labour market, says the International Labour Office.
The wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo leader Joseph Shabalala was shot and killed and Shabalala himself wounded at his Durban home on Wednesday night, KwaZulu-Natal police reported.
Workers have been barred from entering a factory after more than 50 people were hospitalised for inhaling toxic fumes at a textile factory in northern Durban, the labour department said on Thursday.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance will be among five interest groups set to ”welcome” African heads of state on their arrival in Durban from Sunday for the launch of the African Union next week.