Johannesburg, South Africa News

Tsogo Sun Holdings, South Africa's biggest hotel and leisure operator by market value, said sales will outpace inflation this year as an economic recovery resuscitates depressed demand for rooms.

The City of Joburg has grown at an average rate of 4.2 percent between 1996 and 2011 - higher than the average of the national and provincial economies, which are 3.3 and 3.7 percent respectively.

Single and divorced mothers with financial troubles were being recruited daily by South African and Nigerian drug syndicates to travel as international drug couriers, a top Indian spy chief has warned.

A SAA South African Airways Airbus A340-600, registration ZS-SNG performing flight SA-60 from Johannesburg to Lagos , was climbing out of Johannesburg, when the crew stopped the climb at FL210 due to a sparking kettle in one of the galleys.

Cosatu will be joined by 10 civil society bodies and some religious leaders in a series of protests against the e-tolling of Gauteng highways.

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A high-powered delegation of the Princess Juliana International Airport , led by managing director Regina LaBega returned to the island last week after attending the 11th annual Airport Cities World Conference & Exhibition held recently in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The rand gained, snapping its longest losing streak in a year, after inflation outpaced economist estimates in April, damping expectations of a central-bank interest rate cut this year.

South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said companies, the government and labor unions need to end disputes that are halting mines and have pushed the rand to a four-year low to the dollar.

Lewis Group, a South African furniture and electrical-goods retailer, climbed the most in almost nine years after reporting full-year earnings that beat analyst estimates.

Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.

Hebe, a black ball of fluff, looks up shyly through his Perspex enclosure. The puppy is a "prosecution case", meaning he was rescued from his former owner, who was later charged with animal abuse.

Johannesburg - 'Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." If these words by US writer Rita Mae Brown are true, what do they mean for the 80 percent of South Africans who have vernacular languages as their mother tongue? Research conducted by the Department of Basic Education in 2007 ... (more)

The former head of the Internal Revenue Service heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, giving lawmakers their first opportunity to question the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups.

Carl Pistorius, the older brother of South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, was acquitted of culpable homicide over a deadly road crash five years ago.

The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season has opened to a resounding start with conductor Daniel Boico leading the KZNPO in a symphonic illumination of the themes of love, life and death.

At a time when diminishing faith in gold is spurring investors to sell record amounts of the metal, demand for platinum and palladium is strengthening as mining companies curb supply.

The mining community reacts as they are addressed by their leaders during a strike at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg, 100 km northwest of Johannesburg, May 15, 2013.

The first thing 'Morning Lives' anchorman Vuyo Mbuli does when he walks into his holiday home on Port Alfred's luxurious marina, is to open the doors leading to the terrace nestling against the Kowie River and draw the curtains wide open.

There could be a shortage of clean water if South Africans do not work to conserve it, says Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa.