SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa plans to place limits for carbon emissions on top polluters who may face penalties if they do not conform to the new regulations, a climate policy paper showed on Tuesday.

President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos cut Angola's growth forecast for 2011 to 3.7 percent on Tuesday due mainly to lower crude production but the economy should bounce back with a 12 percent expansion next year.

Eight foreigners were killed in a Botswana plane crash when the plane caught fire shortly after takeoff.

Canada-based Eastern Platinum Ltd. said Tuesday production from its flagship Crocodile River mine in South Africa fell nearly a third due mainly to the consequences of labor disputes earlier this year.

South Africa's rand fell more than 1.7 percent against the dollar on Monday, with dealers citing speculation of a cross-border deal between a local company and a Canadian firm as the driver.

Massmart Holdings, the South African retailer majority owned by Wal-Mart Stores, said on Monday first-quarter sales rose nearly 15 percent, and forecast a solid year ahead.

The South African operations of global miner Xstrata were disrupted on Monday after hundreds of workers joined a walk-out in protest over an employee share ownership programme, the company said.

The number of murders fell by 6.5 percent over the 12-month period through the end of March 2011 to 15,940, the lowest figure in seventeen years.

The U.S. economy needs its mojo back -- not just consumer confidence but a greater willingness to compete for business -- in the eyes of General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt.

British youngster Tom Lewis won the Portugal Masters Sunday to earn a European Tour exemption in only his third event as a professional.

South African miners went on strike at Xstrata Plc on Sunday over an employee share ownership program, a union spokesman said.

South African miners will go on strike at Xstrata Plc later on Sunday over an employee share ownership program, a union spokesman said.

South Africa is awash in corruption and financial mismanagement.

Researchers have discovered an over 100,000-year-old workshop in South Africa, which may have been used by early Homo sapiens to make, mix and also to stock up ochre - the most primitive form of paint.

Archaeologists discovered a 100,000-year-old workshop in Blombos Cave in South Africa that may have been the world's earliest artist's studio.

South African stocks rose more than 1 percent on Friday, capping their best weekly performance in six weeks, as shares of Kumba Iron Ore and other resource firms gained after data from China boosted hopes of greater demand from the country.

South Africa's rand edged higher against the dollar on Friday and was on track for a weekly advance of more than 1.6 percent, with the market trusting the authorities will more likely act to support the currency, than let it depreciate.

South Africa is looking at establishing its own metals exchange as part of a wider government plan to extract more value from the country's huge mineral wealth, much of which is exported as ore rather than being refined and processed locally.

South Africa is looking at establishing its own metals exchange as part of a wider government plan to extract more value from the country's huge mineral wealth, much of which is exported as ore rather than being refined and processed locally.

What appears to be an artist's workshop was uncovered in South Africa and scientists think it's one of the oldest found examples of art.

Off the South African coast, a tiny cave has been discovered with evidence of paint being mixed. This is believed to be the earliest trace of prehistoric humans producing their own paint with self-made tools.