A record number of rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year as rising demand in Asia for their horns led to a massive upswell in killings.
The former head of the ANC Youth League, Fikile Mbalula, is beating a path that may lead right to the top using sport to help unite a nation.
About 150 000 SA coal workers seeking 14% wage increases plan to walk off the job from Sunday in a strike that could hurt power supplies.
Eskom has increased its wage offer to unions, in a bid to prevent a prolonged strike that could cut power and bring disaster to the economy.
Labour protests sweeping South Africa are stoking worries about inflation and dealing blows to the long-term prospects of the country’s economy.
Fuel shortages, icy rain and power failures are hampering Japan’s worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, but workers are reporting progress.
Japan may build robots to run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors.
Africa, Australia and Canada likely hold the key to a geopolitical battle being fought to end China’s stranglehold over obscure elements.
South African President Jacob Zuma called on the government and private sector to create jobs, setting aside billions of dollars to create work.
SA is proposing sweeping changes to labour law intended to increase job security for temporary workers, but economists have expressed concern.
South Africa’s ascension to the Bric group of major emerging economies was more about politics than economics.
The ANCYL has been stepping up its support for North Korea, Pyongyang’s media said, ahead of President Zuma’s visit to the G20 meeting in South Korea.
A diary entry by suspected Nigerian bombing conspirator Henry Okah talked about staging "a fight to the finish", a court heard on Monday.
The African National Congress will press on Wednesday for a new tribunal to punish unscrupulous reporting.
Some safe bets in SA’s turbulent politics are that massive unemployment will persist, poverty will remain widespread and the ANC will stay in power.
The ANC and Cosatu will on Monday try to repair their governing alliance, which has been described "dysfunctional".
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday accused striking state workers of abandoning the sick at hospitals and said he expected a deal to be reached soon.
More than a million public-sector workers plan to strike on Tuesday in what could be a prelude to prolonged industrial action.
The government raised its pay offer to civil servants on Thursday to try to avert a strike by nearly a million public workers.
Unions representing thousands of workers at power utility Eskom said on Friday they were not planning an imminent strike over wages.
