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Food prices soaring in South Africa
PRESSTV Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:30:01 GMT
Food prices are rocketing, and contributing significantly to inflation, which this week hit double digits for the first time in five years in South Africa.
The struggle against apartheid has begun again in South Africa
JOHNPILGER Fri, 11 Apr 2008
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how economic apartheid has become a model for much of the world and resistance to it has begun again in the country where apartheid was said to be in the past.
Cold kills swallows before migration
PRESSTV Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:05:32 GMT
Unusually cold March weather has killed thousands of swallows in South Africa, a week before they were due to start migrating to Europe.
Fear keeps South African exiles away
INDEPENDENT Sat, 29 Mar 2008
Munyaradzi Matuku knows the stakes are high and every vote will have to count if Robert Mugabe is to be dislodged from power this weekend.
Mining forces out thousands in SA
BBC Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:38:08 GMT
Mining giant Anglo American has displaced thousands of South Africans in its quest for platinum, a BBC report finds.
Cricket: SA crush Bangladesh
BBC Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:02:53 GMT
South Africa dethrone Australia as the world's top-ranked one-day team with an emphatic victory over Bangladesh to complete a 3-0 series whitewash.
Zuma tries to block court evidence
ALJAZEERA Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:22:38 PM
South Africa's ANC chief wants use of confiscated papers in graft case stopped.
ANC and the arms deal
BBC Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:39:12 GMT
Nine years on from the signing of a $5bn arms deal in South Africa, the ruling party's future remains threatened.
No clinical trials for SA healers
BBC Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:21:47 GMT
South Africa's health minister says medicines used by traditional healers should not be subject to clinical trials.
Platinum price hits record high
PRESSTV Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:06:22 GMT
Platinum prices have climbed to a record high of $2060 an ounce amid fears over mine shut-downs and supply shortages in South Africa.
Move to scrap SA Scorpions unit
BBC Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:19:41 GMT
South Africa's security minister proposes disbanding the FBI-style Scorpions special investigations unit.
ANTI ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK KICKS OFF IN SOUTH AFRICA
WORDPRESS Tue, 05 Feb 2008
South Africa, the official birthplace of Apartheid was the scene of a massive anti apartheid rally. ISRAELI APARTHEID! The keynote speaker was our very own exiled member of the Israeli Knesset, Azmi Bishara. Similar rallies were held in major cities throughout the world, including New York
Sting in the tail for SA Scorpions?
BBC Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:15:55 GMT
Suspended South African police commissioner Jackie Selebi's court appearance on Friday on charges of corruption could spell the end of the elite Scorpions crime fighting unit - or its finest hour.
Protests over SA shooting spree
BBC Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:02:23 GMT
South African police struggle to get a white man accused of murder out of court as a crowd demonstrates outside.
SA tourists trapped in cable car
BBC Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:54:49 GMT
Tourists in South African are left hanging in mid-air near the top of Table Mountain after a power cut.
Power cuts a good sign, sceptical South Africans told
GUARDIAN Mon, 21 Jan 2008
South African government tells millions left in the dark by rolling power cuts likely to go on for years to look on the bright side
Mbeki on mediation trip to Harare
BBC Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:26:00 GMT
South African President Thabo Mbeki is in travels to the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, for mediation talks.
South Africa police chief faces criminal charges
GUARDIAN Fri, 11 Jan 2008
Prosecutors to charge Jackie Selebi with accepting bribes and interfering with murder investigation
Zuma to stand trial for fraud and corruption
INDEPENDENT Sat, 29 Dec 2007
Jacob Zuma's hopes of succeeding Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa were dealt a blow last night after prosecutors ordered him to stand trial for racketeering, money laundering, corruption and fraud.
The new struggle for South Africa
INDEPENDENT Tue, 18 Dec 2007
Long ago, in that distant age when the only Mercedes Benz at large gatherings of the African National Congress was the red one Nelson Mandela rode in, the recently released prisoner and ANC president would lecture his fellow leaders on how to persuade the Afrikaners to give up power peacefully. It is not a question merely of addressing their heads, he would say, we must also address their hearts.
ANC members to choose new leader
BBC Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:03:52 GMT
Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma vie for the top post as South Africa's ruling ANC elects its new leader.
Tutu urges ANC not to choose Zuma
BBC Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:50:58 GMT
Archbishop Desmond Tutu urges South Africa's governing ANC not to choose Jacob Zuma as its new leader.
Zuma's ANC bid gains key backer
BBC Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:58:33 GMT
ANC powerbroker Tokyo Sexwale joins Jacob Zuma's campaign to lead South Africa's ruling party.
South African miners strike over safety standards
GUARDIAN Wed, 05 Dec 2007
· Unions call for negligent bosses to be prosecuted· Accidents underground costing 200 lives a year
South African miners out on strike
ALJAZEERA Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:32:48 PM
A quarter of a million South African miners down tools over safety.
Zuma: South Africa's comeback kid
BBC Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:22:12 GMT
After two years out in the cold, Jacob Zuma returns as the front-runner to be ANC leader
Mbeki 'blocked BAE investigation'
GUARDIAN Mon, 12 Nov 2007
South African president blocked inquiry into alleged bribery in country's biggest arms deal.
South Africa court blow for Zuma
BBC Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:16:26 GMT
South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma could face new corruption charges after a court ruling.
Oprah SA school employee arrested
BBC Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:28:56 GMT
An employee at TV star Oprah Winfrey's girls' academy in South Africa is arrested on abuse charges, police say.
Winfrey begs forgiveness for abuse at school
GUARDIAN Tue, 30 Oct 2007
Oprah Winfrey begs forgiveness from parents of girls at her school in South Africa following allegations of sexual abuse.
Heroes' welcome for SA Springboks
BBC Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:42:10 GMT
Thousands of South Africans turn out at the airport to welcome home their Rugby World Cup-winning team.
Memorial to South African leader
BBC Wed, 17 Oct 07 15:10:24 BST
A memorial to an anti-apartheid leader is unveiled in the north London borough he called home for 30 years.
Steep rise in carjackings forces firm to issue staff with safety handbook
INDEPENDENT Wed, 10 Oct 2007
The surge in car hijackings in South Africa, which has reached 35 a day, has prompted one of the country's largest companies to issue staff with a safety handbook.
'World's biggest diamond' revealed as fake
INDEPENDENT Sat, 06 Oct 2007
The discovery of the "world's biggest diamond" last August sent ripples of excitement around the world. It was said to be twice the size of the Cullinan, or Great Star of Africa, discovered near Pretoria in 1905.
Bid to free 3,000 workers trapped in South African gold mine
GUARDIAN Thu, 04 Oct 2007
Rescue workers were attempting to free 3,000 workers trapped more than a mile underground in a South African mine.
Zuma ex-adviser loses jail appeal
BBC Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:14:59 GMT
South African presidential contender Jacob Zuma's ex-financial adviser loses his court appeal battle for fraud.
In memory of a South African martyr
BBC Wed, 12 Sep 07 12:29:51 BST
Thirty years after freedom fighter Steve Biko died, the BBC's Mpho Lakaje investigates his legacy in South Africa.
Violent protests over SA housing
BBC Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:40:49 GMT
Police in South Africa use rubber bullets to disperse crowds of angry township-dwellers outside Soweto.
Food 'no substitute' in HIV fight
BBC Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:03:48 GMT
Scientists in South Africa say there is no evidence that healthier eating is a substitute for drugs when treating Aids.
South Africa blames UK for Zimbabwe crisis
GUARDIAN Mon, 13 Aug 2007
· Report attacks Britain as main protagonist· Harare opposition denies view agreement is near
A President in denial, a ravaged nation denied hope
INDEPENDENT Fri, 10 Aug 2007
The fight against Aids in South Africa, the epicentre of the global pandemic, has been dealt a devastating blow.
'The President talks about the World Cup, but not about HIV'
INDEPENDENT Fri, 10 Aug 2007
Cape Town's majestic Table mountain provides one of the most stunning natural backdrops imaginable to a back yard. Which is a blessing for Fezeke Kayingona, 34, because she hasn't a lot else to boast of. It is a short journey from her shack, but a world away from the city's lush golf courses, five star hotels and diamond shops.
De Klerk under fire over murders
GUARDIAN Mon, 06 Aug 2007
Spotlight turns again on what last white president knew of hit squads.
Fuel strike hits S Africa drivers
BBC Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:24:45 GMT
Many petrol stations run dry across South Africa, after a fuel strike triggers panic buying.
Floods, fires ravage South Africa
BBC Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:11:59 GMT
Floods displace 38,000 people around Cape Town, while fires kill 21 in eastern South Africa and Swaziland.
De Klerk denies death squad role
GUARDIAN Fri, 27 Jul 2007
FW de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president, denies he knew about death squads and other human rights abuses.
SA unions reject pay offer
ALJAZEERA Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:28:12 AM
Labour unions in South Africa given 21 days to accept a 7.5 per cent pay deal.
Press concern at SA strike
BBC Wed, 13 Jun 07 11:04:40 BST
South Africa's press is united in voicing its concern over the impact of the public sector strike which has closed most of the country's hospitals and schools.
SA braced for massive strike
BBC Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:01:28 GMT
South African labour unions call a general strike intended to cause a "total shutdown" on Wednesday.
Stolen copper is major SA export
BBC Thu, 17 May 2007 17:07:21 GMT
Cape Town launches a crackdown on the theft of copper wires, which are the city's second biggest export to China.
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ex President Nelson Mandela, 27 years in prison, gets statue
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Nelson Mandela came to Parliament Square today 29th August 2007 to be there when the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston unveiled a statue of the world's most...