Is 'Economic Apartheid' Killing South Africa?
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The murder of global reggae music icon Lucky Dube is another reminder of the violent crime wave fueled by ongoing social inequality
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South African gold miners continue a war of the words.
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A string of gloomy data has clouded some of the optimism surrounding the South African economy, raising fears of another interest rate hike and casting doubt on government growth forecasts.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: It's easy to blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources. But still the wealthy west takes the lion's share
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South Africa's high levels of crime are continuing to deter foreign investors, a business group warns.
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South Africa will overcome an electricity "emergency" that has damaged the economy and cast doubts over its hosting of the 2010 soccer World Cup, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu warns that "dehumanising" poverty could threaten South Africa.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2 -- A series of attacks on prominent South Africans, including entertainers, business leaders and a renowned historian, has pushed a contentious, racially charged debate over crime to the center of the country's political agenda as lawmakers begin their new parliamentary year in...
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The choice of a liberal white woman to lead South Africaâs main opposition party may seem counterintuitive. What Helen Zilleâs election says about a nation still trying to overcome the legacy of apartheid.
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More and more South Africans are giving up on farming and transforming their land into upscale game reserves.
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CAPE TOWN, Dec 15  (IPS) - ââWe succumbed,ââ lamented a diplomat from Namibia.  ââWe signed on the 12th of December. The pressure was too much.  The private sector felt that they would be disproportionately  affected. In terms of markets, they would be losing access for  beef, grapes, fish and fish products.ââ
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Journalist John Pilger is scathing   in his criticism of the "whiter than white" economic policies   of the South African government, which he says have enriched a   few blacks at the expense of millions of others.
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PRETORIA, South Africa  - South Africa must spend  some $2.05 billion to resolve outstanding land claims by blacks  in an effort to reform land ownership in the formerly  white-ruled country, the government said Tuesday.
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DURBAN, 25 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Although data on the extent of HIV/AIDS and its impact on the South African economy vary, analysts agree that government and businesses need to take urgent action to combat the virus.
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Comment is free: Pankaj Mishra: Benazir Bhutto's death is just the latest evidence of the disastrous legacy of western involvement in the country's politics
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ALEXANDRA, South Africa -- As she drove home to this township, known as the Dark City during apartheid because it lacked electricity while Johannesburg's white neighborhoods nearby blazed with light, community activist Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa experienced a delicious moment of irony.
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PARIS, Jan 26  (IPS) - While the real impact of the economic partnership  agreements (EPAs) on the economies of African, Caribbean and  Pacific (ACP) countries will be ââsmallââ, the pace of  negotiations and of the liberalisation of their markets is too  fast and will damage their economies, according to numerous  French economists and development experts.