South Africa Travel News

Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a six-day tour of Latin America on Friday, seeking greater influence in the backyard of the United States while under pressure from the West to help restrain pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

Business confidence remained subdued in June 2014 as further adverse economic developments caused the SACCI Business Confidence Index to linger below 90 index points.

"Mamphela Ramphele put an enormous amount into founding this movement. She travelled the length and breadth of South Africa to establish support for a new party, and raised R30 million in cash donations based purely on her own good name," said outgoing spokesman Philip Machanik.

Angela Dike was showing clients how to make duck red curry and chocolate spring rolls in her Thai cooking class when hail stones as big as golf balls started slamming into the 18 cars parked outside.

The perception is that Africa is poverty-stricken, but that is not strictly so, and tourists should head our way, writes Danny Bryer.

But stunning vistas from Sydney to South Africa and Copenhagen to Canada could inspire Southampton 's own A 450million Royal Pier development.

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South Africa's famous horse endurance event, an eye-watering, bum-numbing ride of over 210km, takes place annually in Fauresmith in the southern Free State.

Cashmere Streater, who grew up in New Haven, had never met anyone from Zimbabwe, let alone an African businessman developing power plants there.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has hit "unprecedented" proportions, according to relief workers on the ground, with the WHO reporting 844 cases including 518 deaths since the epidemic began in March.

Leaders of the BRICS nations will launch their long-awaited development bank at a summit next week.

Members of the Mbo-Munyang Development Association will visit the Tifton community next week for their national convention, and they're inviting the Tifton community to join them for a fun celebration and "a taste of Africa and southern hospitality."

More than 50 African leaders will descend on Washington in less than a month for the White House's first-ever Africa Summit, which the administration has billed as a historic opportunity to promote its own Africa initiatives, identify trade partners, and foster much-needed counterterrorism cooperation across the continent.

Choreographer Reggie Wilson re-read Zora Neale Hurston's "Moses, Man of the Mountain" as he set off on a trip to Israel, Egypt and Turkey.

But the 69-year-old Harrisburg resident, who holds several weightlifting world records in his age bracket - he can bench press 330 pounds on a good day and once put up 350 pounds - isn't a powerlifter for bragging rights.

Newlands mother Louise Egedal Johnson felt like a criminal when she was ordered to leave South Africa, her home for more than a decade, and escorted onto a plane to Denmark with her 2-year-old son, Samuel.

Dubai continues to climb the ranks in the world's top 10 destinations and recently became the fifth most favorite hotspot for travelers, ahead of New York and other popular cities in Europe, a new MasterCard study revealed on Wednesday.

Madagascar got some good news last week when US President Barack Obama reinstated its eligibility for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act , a preferential trade program aimed at assisting the economies of sub-Saharan Africa.

Patuma, a woman who received a loan and small business training to help start her own bakery, makes bread in Malawi, Africa.

July 08, Jaffna: South African President Jacob Zuma's special envoy to Sri Lanka, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation Tuesday visited Jaffna, the Northern Province capital, and met with the representatives of Tamil political parties.