Tag: South Africa
South Africa’s unemployment rate rises to 27.5%
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 27.5 percent in the third quarter from 27.2 percent in the second quarter, the…
Rohr calls up Musa, Omeruo, 21 others for South Africa, Uganda ties
Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr has called up stand-in team captain Ahmed Musa and 22 other players for preparations…
Wife of a Nigerian shot dead in South Africa
The Nigerian Community in South Africa has expressed dismay by the fatal shooting of the wife of a member, Mrs…
9 Nigerian businesses looted, burnt in South Africa
As Xenophobia on Sunday reared its ugly head again in South Africa, Nigerians have lost more than nine shops to…
South Africa recorded 1.5m household crime
More than 1.5 million incidences of household crime recorded in South Africa in 2017/18 period, an increase of five per…
IMF lowers South Africa’s economic growth forecasts
The fund, in its latest World Economic Outlook report, said the country needed to implement reforms to improve policy certainty…
Strike halts Toyota’s operations in South Africa
Toyota South Africa says it operations at Durban assembly plant and a Johannesburg warehouse had been halted due to a…
Zuma fired me for rejecting Gupta deals – Finance minister
South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on Wednesday told an inquiry former President Jacob Zuma axed him from his cabinet…
Mining charter: South Africa keeps 30% black ownership
The South African government says its new mining charter requires holders of mining rights to raise the level of black…
South Africa, UAE sign extradition treaty targeting Gupta
South Africa has signed an extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates, the justice minister said on Thursday, raising the…
South Africa introduces measures to ease travel into country
South African Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on Tuesday announced measures to ease movement of people into the country to…
South Africa has no plans to return to international bond markets in 2018
South Africa has no plans to issue an international bond in 2018, nor has a request for proposals been sent…
South Africa’s cabinet approves new mining charter
South African cabinet has approved the latest version of the long-delayed mining charter which lay outs requirements for black ownership…
South Africa decriminalises private use of marijuana
South Africa’s Constitutional Court decriminalised the private use of marijuana on Tuesday.
South Africa to continue to put African agenda on BRICS – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said South Africa like in the past will continue to put African issues on the…
Gas explosion: Nasarawa to take victims to South Africa for further treatment
Nasarawa State Government on Friday said it had concluded arrangement to fly some victims of the Lafia gas explosion to…
South Africa: 20,336 murders recorded from 2017 to 2018
South African Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, said 20,336 murders were recorded in the country from 2017 to 2018 period,…
South Africa: UN agency condemns xenophobic attack on foreigners
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday condemned the recent aggression against foreigners, including refugees, by South Africans during a…
South Africa’s economy slumps into recession
South Africa’s economy contracted by 0.7 percent in the second quarter in quarter-on-quarter terms, pushing the country into recession after…
100 injured in South Africa train accident
The ER24 paramedics said Tuesday that some 100 people have been injured in a train collision near the South African…
8 people killed by explosion in Munitions Factory in South Africa
At least eight people were killed by an explosion at a Munitions Factory in South Africa’s Western Cape, an Emergency…
Two Nigerians shot dead in latest killing in South Africa
The Nigerian community in South Africa has again described as senseless, the latest killing of two Nigerians in South Africa.
10 killed in South Africa bus crash
At least ten people died after a bus traveling from South Africa’s Cape Town to the Eastern Cape overturned in…
South Africa launches electronic government bond trading platform
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the London Stock Exchange say they have launched South Africa’s first electronic government bond…
1 killed in anti-immigrant violence in South Africa
Police said one person was shot dead and foreign-owned shops were looted as violence erupted in the South African township…
South Africa halts nuclear power expansion plans until 2030
South Africa’s government has halted its nuclear power expansion plans until 2030, the energy minister said on Monday.
South Africa’s power firm to cut 7,000 jobs
South Africa’s state-run power utility Eskom expects to have 7,000 less staff from now, a senior manager at the utility…
Trump’s tweet “based on false information” – SA foreign minister
South African Foreign Affairs Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Thursday that it was regrettable that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet…
South Africa calls Trump tweet on land reform “narrow perception”
South Africa’s government in an official tweet on Thursday rejected U. S. President Donald Trump’s tweet on land reform as…
Nigerian stabs fellow citizen to death in South Africa
The Nigerian community in South Africa has condemned the killing of 28-year-old Okolie Olileanyi Paul from Awgu Local Government Area…