The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has finally suspended the three-week strike effective from Tuesday at South African steel producer Iscor (ISC).
Junior South African gold company Randgold & Exploration on Tuesday announced that it had sold one million of its shares in London listed Randgold Resources, thereby reducing its stake in the company from 48,2% to 45%.
While reporting last week on renewed steps towards licensing a second nat-ional telephone operator (SNO) I became curious about how our existing national operator, Telkom, is coping with life as a listed company.
The annual average consumer inflation rate is likely to be the lowest since 1969’s 2,9% according to initial forecasts, but economists warn that any economic forecast carries a "health warning", as the future is unknown.
Education is a key weapon in preventing girls from falling victim to child trafficking, Bjorn Ljungqvist, the head of the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (Unicef) in Ethiopia, said on Thursday.
South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) on Friday said it wanted any black empowerment holding in diversified miner Kumba Resources (KMB) to be an active one.
Mpumalanga’s department of public works has accused the provincial treasury of "ignorance" and "malicious" behaviour following a damning report on the department’s functioning.
First published five years ago in his native French, Ahmadou Kourouma’s third novel has since sold a sensational 100 000 copies in France, writes Stephen Gray.
The Dorsbult might be only 1 500km from the <i>visdorpie </i>as the crow flies but it’s light years distant in terms of political understanding.
There are times when one just has to feel pity for President Thabo Mbeki. There you are at the helm of Africa’s most developed economy, and president of a country with probably the greatest proliferation of tertiary institutions on the continent.
The government has never clearly declared itself against the idea of a basic income grant (BIG), but all the signs are that it would like the clamour for BIG — from trade unions, churches, the NGO sector and the Democratic Alliance — to go away.
It was not at all surprising to see State President Thabo Mbeki using a biblical reference to get his message across about how the South African media continue to enjoy their racist sport.
Monetary policy in South Africa will continue to tighten in the months ahead as the real prime interest, which is also the home loan rate for most people, continues to rise.
South Africa’s mediation role in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is being contested by elements of President Joseph Kabila’s government and other leaders of the region.
Under the auspices of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an E-schools Initiative has been launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Africa Economic Summit with the aim of bridging the digital divide between Africa and the developed world by bringing computer literacy into African schools, giving the continent’s children the skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.
About 600 protestors from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Durban Social Forum gathered outside the International Convention Centre in Durban around midday on Thursday in a bid to raise awareness of the need to combat Aids and improve the plight of the poor on the second day of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s three-day Africa Economic Summit.
The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Thursday announced a 150 basis point cut in the repo rate to 12% at the conclusion of its two day meeting in Pretoria.
HIV-positive Namibians could soon be able to access cheaper anti-Aids drugs after the government announced plans to support the local manufacture of generic medication in the country.
South African Transport and Workers’ Union (Satawu) on Wednesday said it was delighted to learn that the Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana, has finally promulgated the three year wage agreement for the Private Security Service Industry, effective from June 16.
In a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Economic Forum on deflation, the IMF research department estimated that the risk of South Africa experiencing structural deflation was minimal, or less than 20%.
The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) reported on Wednesday that it had stepped up the pace of its HIV/Aids awareness programme in the clothing, textile and leather industries.
South Africa’s National Industrial Participation Programme (Nipp) has already produced more than 6 000 jobs of the 14 000 direct jobs targeted by 2011, says Department of Trade and Industry Deputy Director General Lionel October.
South African sugarcane farmers are concerned about the recent move by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza to introduce an amendment to the Restitution of Land Rights Act, South African Cane Growers chairperson Bruce Galloway said in a speech on Wednesday.
The governments of South Africa and Switzerland signed a declaration of intent on joint co-operation in Africa during an official visit by South African President Thabo Mbeki to Switzerland this week.
Swaziland’s banned political parties have rejected a draft constitution put together by a palace-appointed committee and released with fanfare at the beginning of the month.
South Africa has got the blessing of its regional partners to become the seat of the proposed Pan African Parliament (PAP).
South African business owners are highly optimistic about growth prospects despite myriad challenges in the local business environment, according to a recent survey published by auditing, accounting and business advisory group Grant Thornton Kessel Feinstein.
South African gold miner Gold Fields is seen wrapping up the issue of empowerment on Tuesday with an announcement of the sale of 15% of its South African operations to empowerment group Mvelaphanda Resources.
The South African government has "moved speedily" to eliminate a possible recurrence of the errors made by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in its calculations of the inflation rate, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said.
The shortage of fertilisers, seed for staple cereal crops, fuel and electricity supply, compounded by continued shortage of foreign currency, are diminishing output prospects for the country’s coming winter maize, wheat and barley as well as the 2003/04 summer crops
World number one platinum miner Anglo Platinum and London and Australian-listed Aquarius Platinum have entered into an agreement to jointly mine the adjacent Rustenburg and Kroondal properties.
Readers young and old across the world are waiting anxiously for the new Harry Potter book, out on June 21. Our correspondents fly across the world on their magic brooms to find out how popular Harry really is.