The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has reached record highs despite forecasts of a fall amid the global crisis and deadly strikes at Marikana mine.
The monumental sculpture, which will be unveiled in Howick, is made up of 50 steel rods of between five and 10m high symbolising a prison.
South Africans and foreigners are walking through Johannesburg’s once feared city centre to experience more of the recently revamped metropolis.
Downtown Johannesburg became a case study in decay in the 1990s as a crime wave terrorised the city. But an effort has been made to halt the decline.
The African Parks Network reintroduced over 2 500 animals to the Majete Wildlife Reserve after poachers almost wiped out the animal population.
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/ 25 December 2011
Cover pages of SA’s iconic <em>Drum</em> magazine evoke a 1950s black fashion and jazz culture which perished when apartheid forces razed Sophiatown.
Cookbooks are competing with more serious works on Nelson Mandela this Christmas as his personal chef publishes a collection of her best dishes.
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/ 13 November 2011
Countries across Southern Africa are pouring billions of dollars into overhauling their railways, hoping to ease the flow of exports.
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/ 26 September 2011
Pictures may soon be all that’s left of the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe, which hasn’t plied its regular route on the Garden Route since floods in August 2006.
Nelson Mandela is among the world’s most famous icons, and re-tracing his steps is one of the country’s major tourism draws.
A sign warmly greets visitors with "Welcome to Mashishing", a town where everything else indicates the name is Lydenburg.
Hotels that expanded for football fans during last year’s World Cup now face declining occupancy rates that are taking a toll on the industry.
Calls to nationalise mines face new challenges from ministers who warn the scheme won’t fight poverty and fear the debate is scaring investors.
South Africa’s literary classic <i>Jock of the Bushveld</i> has been turned into the country’s first 3D animation film featuring global celebrities.
As years of construction on Johannesburg’s main highways near an end, toll plazas have sprung up, sparking an outcry from drivers.
A new South African musical <i>African Adventure</i> aims to dramatise the rising toll of illegal hunting on endangered species.