Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, veteran anti-apartheid activist who spent more than two decades in jail, died in Johannesburg on Monday night, just a few days before his 91st birthday.
According to a report in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> two weeks ago, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang recently attacked Mark Heywood in public as a white man who manipulates Africans to take part in Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) actions.
The significant drop in the number of strikes in South Africa in the past year is in part a reflection of the success of labour legislation passed since 1994 that encourages the resolution of disputes through dialogue and discussion.
The South African government wants to see greater transformation in all areas of the local tourism industry, according to acting director-general of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Patrick Matlou.
In a deal worth some R1,766-billion, two of South Africa’s leading gold mines, Harmony Gold Mining Company and ARMgold, have merged to create the country’s biggest black owned gold producer.
A former Transnet official is facing prosecution after he allegedly accepted bribes worth more than R1-million from a company that was part of a Siemens-led consortium which won a major contract from the parastatal.
The South African rand was slightly weaker against major currencies in early trade on Friday on the back of comments made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday afternoon that the rand was likely to retreat to R8,40 to the dollar.
In the past six weeks much debate has been generated over whether blacks are worse off today than they were before 1994. Many of us "nouveau" free South Africans experience a sense of shock at being forced to respond to this question.
A fundamental model for the rand indicates that the South African currency, at just more than R7 to the dollar, is probably somewhat overvalued, according to Absa’s Group Economic Research Department.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana’s inspectors on Wednesday "blitzed" media houses in Johannesburg – including offices of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) – to assess compliance with labour legislation.
South Africa’s economic growth is likely to suffer as a result of global economic weakness, the strong rand and relatively high domestic interest rates, warns Absa economist John Loos.
South African exports soared by 29,6% in US dollar terms in the first quarter of 2003 to $8,4-billion, while last year, exports rose by only 1,5% to $29,9-billion.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Securities Exchange South Africa and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have entered into a joint venture to establish a South African Women’s Enterprise Network (Sawen).
The head of the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef), Carol Bellamy, has expressed concern over the renewed abduction of children and women by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) following the recent collapse of a ceasefire in northern Uganda.
NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported that more than a year after the end of Angola’s civil war, the plight of thousands of former child soldiers continues to go unnoticed.
The head of Ethiopia’s National Election Board has been arrested on charges of corruption and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.
Government’s proposals for the Growth and Development Summit reflect a remarkable synergy with those of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) given the differences that have rocked their alliance.
The announcement last weekend that Nat Kekana, a leading African National Congress MP, will quit the National Assembly raises the spectre of a parliamentary brain drain for the ruling party.
Business is effectively boycotting the reporting of employment equity, according to the Employment Equity 2002 report, which tries to capture a picture of black workplace advancement for the previous year.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Tuesday warned that its members would strike at South African steel producer Iscor’s (ISC) steel division if the company failed to resolve certain issues.
A top Minerals and Energy department official Nchakha Moloi has expressed concern that a new wave of retrenchments could hit South Africa’s mining industry if the currency firmed above the seven rand to the dollar mark.
JSE Securities Exchange South Africa and Namibian Stock Exchange listed brewer Namibian Breweries (NBS) on Wednesday reported a decline in headline earnings per share to 11,1 Namibian cents for the 12 months ended January 31 from 29,5 Namibian cents for the same period a year ago.
Sustained, if moderate, growth; inflation relatively under control; the rand strengthening — on the face of it, our economy has been doing well. "The tide has turned," President Thabo Mbeki could say in his February State of the Nation address.
South African companies will soon be offered the opportunity to set up business partnerships and joint ventures with their counterparts in Ireland, one of the European Union’s (EU) fasting growing economies.
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed on Friday to the Security Council not to lose sight of the need for an early solution to the conflict in Liberia.
As part of the growing foreign interest in South Africa’s tourism and leisure industry, Golding Hotel Investment Consultants (GHIC) has concluded deals in excess of R220-million for the year.
AMB Holdings , the South African listed banking group, said on Tuesday it was making progress in deciding on a black economic empowerment (BEE) partner to participate in the Heywood Investments consortium now holding 24 million AMB shares.
The South African rand was looking relatively steady against the dollar in early trade on Tuesday after rallying to its best level since September 2000 in thin London trade on Monday.
Children are the main target of the 17-year Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency which is terrorising civilians in northern Uganda and seeks to topple President Yoweri Museveni.
Zambia is experiencing a critical fuel shortage that has forced the government to look to South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Iran for urgent supplies, according to a top government official in the Ministry of Energy and Water Development.
While corporates continue to call for deregulation, the South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana reassured workers on Thursday that affirmative action was not about to be abandoned, nor was there going to be amendments to the employment equity act.
South African listed short-term insurer Mutual & Federal (MAF) has made an offer to acquire the 65% interest in Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Africa ltd (CGIC) that it does not already own for a cash consideration of R198,486-million, equating to R112 per CGIC share, Mutual & Federal announced on Thursday.