South Africa is in the midst of a massive waves of strikes by tens of thousands of workers across many industries which threaten to paralyze the national economy.
More than 200,000 South African municipal workers walked off the job on Monday, a trade union said, in a strike which intensifies labour strife that has rocked Africa's biggest economy.
The ruling African National Congress estimated that the initial costs to establish the health care program at 128 billion rand ($18 billion).
South Africa's ruling ANC put off discussions planned for Monday to bring its Youth League leader Julius Malema to heel after the populist politician angered the party by calling for nationalisation of mines and meddling in foreign affairs.
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said on Thursday Impala Platinum had improved its wage offer in a bid to avert a strike which could impact production at the world's second-largest producer of the precious metal.
South Africa said it would push Wal-Mart to rejig the conditions of its $2.4 billion Massmart deal, as Pretoria looks to wring bigger concessions from the world's top retailer.
South African police may reopen a corruption probe into a multi-billion dollar arms deal involving several companies and high profile officials including President Jacob Zuma to see if charges can be instituted a decade after the transaction.
South Africa's official jobless rate rose further in the second quarter of this year as the mining and manufacturing sectors shed jobs.
Some 100,000 South African gold miners went on strike on Thursday, but fuel workers ended a stoppage that had slowed commerce and caused panic buying.
Afrikaners have lived in South Africa so long that they regard themselves as ?Africans? or ?the white tribe of Africa.?
Striking workers in South Africa's petroleum sector are discussing a revised wage offer to end a three-week-old walkout as stoppages spread to the vital mining sector, threatening supplies of coal and gold.
Nations thank this world leader for his continued service on his 93rd birthday.
De Klerk, the last white leader of South Africa who negotiated Nelson Mandela to end of Apartheid, has alleged that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is seeking to establish and enforce black domination over racial minorities by chipping away at the constitution.
In a desperate attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the brutal civil war in Libya, the president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has arrived in Tripoli for talks with Moammar Gaddafi.
A powerful member of South Africa's ruling party on Wednesday accused the new government spokesman of making racially insensitive comments that echoed the injustices of the apartheid era.
South African police fired rubber bullets, live rounds and tear gas on Tuesday at demonstrators protesting against the government's delivery of basic housing and education.
South African President Jacob Zuma will use a major policy speech on Thursday to lay out his plans to create jobs in the regional economic power where unemployment has lingered at about 25 percent for years.
Resource-rich African governments risk unrest if they hold back the benefits of soaring global commodity prices from their own people, delegates to a major mining conference were told on Wednesday.
A state-owned South African mining company likely to focus on coal and uranium will be up and running by the end of February, but much of its work will be farmed out to private firms, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Nationalising South Africa's mines is not the option, mines minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday in her strongest comments in a year against an idea that has unnerved investors in Africa's biggest economy.
A battle is brewing over control of South Africa’s key mining sector.
For Esther Moloto, the 32-year-old owner of a little house on top of the world's biggest platinum reserves, the sound of progress is falling plaster.
