Bid to avert new S Africa strikes
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South African unions and government officials meet to try and thrash out a pay deal, as more strikes loom next week.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged to tackle poverty and crime, speed up land redistribution to blacks and fight AIDS in a speech on Friday that focused on the country's most glaring social ills.
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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South African unions turned down a revised offer of a 7.5 percent pay rise on Friday, ensuring that the country&#39;s biggest strike since the end of apartheid will go into a fourth week.
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Striking public sector workers in South Africa warned Monday that government threats to sack health workers would derail efforts to resolve an increasingly bitter pay dispute.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party has intervened in the war of words between President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, trying to calm tempers.
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Thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for a second Friday demanding a 12% pay rise.
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South African workers striking over pay and benefits have a new complaint -- they no longer have the energy for sex.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 13 (IPS) - A top European Union official has been seeking to  create divisions between South Africa and its neighbours in talks  aimed at establishing a free trade deal, African diplomats have  alleged.
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Business & money: Royal Mail management will talk to union leaders on Wednesday in a bid to avert the first national postal strike for a decade. By Mark Milner.
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South Africa plan to undermine Steve Harmison&#39;s position as world number one bowler by targeting him when the five-Test series starts today.
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The Nigerian government sought a court  injunction on Wednesday to stop a three-day-old general strike  which has raised fears about oil supplies from the world's  seventh largest exporter.
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Thousands gather to march in South African cities as trade unions hold a general strike aimed at a "total shutdown".
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Swaziland's main trade union begins a two-day general strike to press for the reduction of the monarch's power.
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The comment from the head of the mining conglomerate Anglo American last week seemed harmless enough. Tony Trahar said the political risk of investing in South Africa &quot;is starting to diminish -- although I am not saying it has gone.&quot;
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Nigeria Unions Declare Royal Dutch/Shell an &#39;Enemy,&#39; Say Nov. 16 Strike Will Target Oil Exports. President of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) Adams Oshiomhole speaks to journalist in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - President Thabo Mbeki on Friday pledged to tackle poverty and crime and speed up land redistribution to blacks, signaling a new interventionist approach in fighting South Africa's glaring social ills.