Latest in Tag: South Africa Highlight
Latest in Tag: South Africa
Mandela memorial service: Live Report
Live updates from Mandela’s memorial service
World bows in respect to Mandela
Foreshadowing the guest list of what will surely be the most important funeral of recent decades, world leaders queued up to issue solemn tributes to the 95-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
Ahly denied victory over Pirates, come away with a draw
Although up 1-0, Al-Ahly pressured heavily by the South African team
Red Devils battle Pirates in CAF Final
The winner will participate in the Club World Cup in Morocco in 2014
Egyptian exports to EU, Turkey and South Africa unaffected by political stances
The positions of Turkey and South Africa will not have an effect on fertilizer exports, revenues from which were described as relatively weak, considering that only 30,000 tons were shipped per year
Foreign ministry critical of South Africa
Foreign ministry denounces South Africa’s statement regarding recent events in the country
Amplats axes 6,000 jobs in South Africa
Profits were obliterated by a higher wage bill and increased electricity costs.
Suez Canal toll fees rise
Chairman of Suez Canal Authority attends COMESA meeting
President talks shop in Doha and Durban, announces parliamentary elections
President Mohamed Morsi says Egyptian parliamentary elections to take place before the end of the year
Morsi hopes Egypt will join BRICS bloc
President tells Indian media he hopes the BRICS would soon become the ‘E-BRICS’ once Egypt gets its economy back on track
The Arabian Dream: Abu Dhabi’s Mercenaries
The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince
Zuma wins ANC leadership vote by landslide
The South African president will have to work hard to win back South African voters, who increasingly see the ANC as out of touch, incompetent and corrupt.
Rival worshippers clash at South African church
Police quelled the clashes and got one group to pull down its tent and erect it elsewhere, away from the church
South Africa miners rally after police arrest 13
Strike leaders said they had ignored the ultimatum
South Africa police fire rubber bullets and tear gas at miners
Workers refused to go back to work until their pay demands are met
40 strikers arrested at South African mine
Miners had threatened to destroy the mining equipment unless granted a pay increase of 15,000 rand ($1,720) for all workers.
S.Africa gold mine owners, unions reach pay deal
NUM, owners reach an agreement, workers going back to work today
Morsy celebrates Uganda’s Independence Day
An attempt to enhance Egyptian- African relations
South African Lonmin miners end their strike
Police disperse Amplats miners’ protest
South African mines reopen but unrest continues
Global platinum price rises in response to strikes that have seen 45 miners killed
South African mines reopen but unrest continues
Global platinum price rises in response to strikes that have seen 45 miners killed
South Africa’s Zuma says state taking no sides in mines dispute
Government can’t allow violent protests, says Zuma
Crackdown on striking South African miners
South African police tried yet again on Saturday to disperse the miners determined to get a wage increase
South African miners mourn for dead, told to return to work.
Strikes continue in South Africa, following the death of 44 miners
Clinton urges South Africa to take leading role
Pretoria , South Africa (AFP) — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday called on South Africa, the continent’s leading democracy, to play a more influential role in African and global issues. “We are looking for ways to enhance and deepen our partnership. South Africa has so much to offer to the rest of …
BRICs and more tar
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Talking shops or photo ops? Verdant oases of green shoots? Or overblown blooming nuisances? Downtrodden by history’s rapacious greed, the wooed nations are the benighted forlorn — ugly ducks turned swans. Their allure? Growth. Though not in the top tier, Egypt is on the cusp says Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs economist …
S.Africa’s MTN slides on Iran corruption lawsuit
By David Dolan / Reuters JOHANNESBURG: Shares in MTN Group slid on Friday after rival Turkcell filed a $4.2 billion suit against the South African mobile operator, alleging it bribed officials and lobbied support for Tehran’s nuclear program to win an Iranian license. Turkcell, which lost the 2004 bid for the Iranian license to MTN, filed …
S.Africa’s MTN struggles to get money out of Iran
By David Dolan and Helen Nyambura-Mwaura / Reuters JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile phone operator MTN Group said it is struggling to get its money out of Iran due to tougher Western sanctions, reflecting the tightening international noose around Tehran. Africa’s biggest mobile operator, which has units in the Middle East, is no longer able to use …
Reflections on the recent AU Summit
By Maite Nkoana-Mashabane We recently returned from Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the African Union (AU), as part of a high-level South African government delegation to the 18th Ordinary Session of the AU Summit. One of the most anticipated decisions to be made by the Summit (amongst other similarly important decisions) was the election of candidates …
South African shop closes as books gather dust
By Jean Liou / AFP South Africa may have produced two Nobel laureates in literature but a famous bookshop in Johannesburg is nevertheless about to close, a victim of the country’s poor reading culture. The Boekehuis, whose Afrikaans name means “book house”, is in an old four-bedroom house a stone’s throw from the city’s two …