Johannesburg, South Africa News

STATEMENT BY THE ELDERS AT THEIR JOHANNESBURG MEETING ON JULY 16-18, 2008: As the Elders meet in Johannesburg, in the wake of a Zimbabwean election that African observers deemed to be neither free nor fair, the ...

Customs officers at Cork and Shannon airports have seized more than 300,000 worth of herbal cannabis found in the luggage of two passengers from South Africa.

Many Afrikaner youths are angry and hold rigid views about black people, Professor Jonathan Jansen said on Thursday.

Police stormed a refugee camp today in southern Johannesburg to release four security guards held hostage by foreign nationals displaced by the recent xenophobic violence in South Africa.

A Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species standing committee decision allowing China to import more than a hundred tons of elephant ivory gives a green light to poaching syndicates, Animal ...

When they talk of their government's failure, South Africans in the tangle of shacks and narrow lanes that is Alexandra point to an unfinished modern brick and steel building near the edge of the township.

The billboard out front says the Mandela Interpretation Center should have been completed two years ago.

Neighbors gossip that corrupt officials stole money for the center. Julian Baskin, director of a government project to redevelop Alexandra, says the real story is that only $525,000 was set aside four years ago for a museum that has since grown to include space for cultural and social activities. Now the project is stalled as bureaucrats try to determine the real costs and how to pay for them.

Gardeners mowed the lawn outside the tiny museum honoring local hero Nelson Mandela on Thursday, while a work crew laid new tarmac on the road outside his house and a school choir rehearsed a song they created ...

SW Radio Africa Alex Bell Workers from around the world have been urged to refuse to handle goods destined for Zimbabwe, as part of a policy of solidarity put forward by South Africa's trade union federation, ...

Young Communist League national chairperson David Masondo has been arrested for allegedly assaulting police at a Johannesburg roadblock, Gauteng police said.

Police and the prosecution are ready for the trial resulting from the 2006 multi-million-rand airport robbery, which starts in two weeks.

The father of murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble is suing the men accused of killing him, Glenn Agliotti and John Stratton, for R15m, it emerged on Wednesday.

Consumer confidence in SA remains stubbornly optimistic, according to a survey released in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday on Friday is the talk of South Africa. There's already been one star-studded party , in London's Hyde Park two weeks ago, as well as a more subdued event over the weekend here in ...

Fifty five new schools will be opened in Gauteng this year and 150 science laboratories refurbished in previously disadvantaged communities, Gauteng Education MEC Angie Motshekga said in Johannesburg on ...

Another person has died following a head-on collision between a seven ton construction truck and a heavy-duty tow truck in Randfontein, Johannesburg Emergency Services said on Tuesday.

Johannesburg, July 14: The South African media has started speculating that the country's telecom giant MTN could look at a "less controversial" deal with Bharti Airtel instead of RCOM, a group firm of Anil ...

A persistently high rate of unemployment is the weakest point in South Africa's post-apartheid economy, with the education system failing to produce skilled workers, the OECD said on Tuesday.

Caption: Nelson Mandela The Nelson Mandela 's 90th Birthday concert '46664' in Hyde Park.

Seven people were killed and six seriously injured when a seven ton construction truck collided with a tow truck on Monday afternoon, Johannesburg Emergency Services said.

TODAY'S six hour delay in the opening of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is cause for serious concern both here and abroad.