South Africa News

Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.

United Nations, Nov 10 The United Nations General Assembly decided to declare July 18 as International Nelson Mandela Day, in recognition to this South African fighter against racial discrimination and for the liberation of Africa.

South Africans will have a four months to hand in illegal firearms under an amnesty in 2010, the police ministry said today.

Former president Thabo Mbeki came under fierce attack once again as Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi released shocking statistics on the devastation HIV/Aids has inflicted on the country's population.

Government will invite all stakeholders to have their say on how best to achieve a more competitive exchange rate, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday.

The latest developments at Eskom are a "complete disaster", analyst Adam Habib said after Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell resigned on Monday and CEO Jacob Maroga returned to work after his own apparent recent resignation.

Ecumenical Body Sends Letter to South African Churches Nov. 6, 2009 -- The Executive Committee of the Reformed Ecumenical Council has sent a letter to the South African members of the REC and of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches concerning and clarifying the status of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa related to the union of the REC ...

When Jose Bright arrived in South Africa in 1994, he felt daunted by the task ahead. After all, as an education consultant from the Washington, D.C., public school system, his job was to help South Africa transform its schools, designed to benefit the white minority of 4 million, into a system to educate the 40 million black majority as well.

Nobody would have blamed him if he'd simply declared victory, turned, and run.

But after several consultancies, Mr. Bright stayed. He's now a professor in the business school at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He has dipped into his own pocket and donated his free time to ensure that a handful of poor but promising South African middle-school students make it through high school.

The weekend murder of former senior government official Warwick Dorning seriously questions the ruling party's selective security arrangements for its cadres, the Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa said on Monday.

The Final Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will take place in Cape Town on 4 December 2009 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre .The entertainment lined up for the 90-minute live show will include the Soweto Gospel Choir, Beninoise singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo and Johnny Clegg.

Former president Thabo Mbeki on Monday conveyed his condolences to the family of ex-intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils whose wife, Eleanor, died at the weekend.

The threat of climate change could imperil an estimated 4 million South African citizens who are still without access to potable water, the country's Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Ms.

South Africa is set to begin harnessing its legendary sunshine in a substantial way following the announcement on Monday of the go-head for a 115 million U.S. dollars plant to manufacture thin-film solar panels.

Freed from African jail, U.K. plotter threatens revenge In this image made from video, Simon Mann smiles after thanking court officials following his pardon in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

This Oct. 28, 2009 photo from a derelict cottage, shows leafy oak trees surrounding the graves of 217 members of the Native Military Corps, a black volunteer contingent during World War II, in the isolated Palmietkkuil near Springs, South Africa.

Congress of South African Trade Unions secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday urged the government to transform the economy, saying the market-driven polices of the past were to blame for poor delivery and, in part, the recession.

While most people are well aware of the years of civil unrest which led to the demise of Apartheid in 1994, not as many know about the secret talks that simultaneously transpired for almost a decade between the South African government and the African National Congress , the political party spearheading the independence movement.

By Khanyisa Tabata 06 November 2009 The Government says there has been no word yet on the return to South Africa of four mercenaries pardoned this week by the government of Equatorial Guinea.

South Africa's relations with China are conducive to the country's plan to halve unemployment by 2014, the labor minister said on Saturday.

By Clayton Barnes Terminal 2010, the multimillion-rand central terminal building under construction at Cape Town International Airport, is to be opened on November 7 - months before schedule, the Airports Company of South Africa says.