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Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell 117.86, or 0.4 percent, to 27,305.61 by 10:55 a.m. in Johannesburg. The following are among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled as cover for injured allrounder Jacques Kallis for the remainder of South Africa's limited-overs international series against England. Kallis is expected to be sidelined for a month with a rib injury, discovered after a scan at the weekend. Kallis missed the seven-wicket loss to England at Centurion on Sunday, which put the hosts behind 1-0 in the five-match...
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo International Corp. won a $250 million contract from South Africa to supply transformers for 10 years starting next year.
Athol Fugard's latest play, The Train Driver, will make its world premiere at a South African theatre named in his honor in early 2010.
World champions South Africa on Monday put off naming the team to play Six Nations Grand Slam holders Ireland this Saturday in Dublin because of an injury crisis which forced them to cancel training.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s spending to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the world’s most-watched sporting event, and a rebound in manufacturing may have pulled the economy out of its first recession in 17 years in the third quarter.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index gained 301.77, or 1.1 percent, to 27,231.02 at 9:30 a.m. in Johannesburg, after falling 0.5 percent on Nov. 20.
Paris - After an eventful and controversial qualifying campaign, France head to South Africa in 2010 hoping to put the disappointment of losing in the final to Italy last time around in Germany behind them. Against all the odds, Raymond Domenech is s...
France coach Marc Lievremont has recalled veteran center Yannick Jauzion and flanker Fulgence Ouedraogo to face New Zealand in Saturday's rugby test. Jauzion scored a fine try in Saturday's 43-5 thrashing of Samoa, and Ouedraogo is back after shaking off a shoulder injury that kept him out of France's 20-13 win over South Africa earlier this month.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Netcare Ltd. said revenue at its South African operations will rise by between 7 percent and 10 percent in fiscal 2010 while remaining flat in the U.K.
Johannesburg - Are the new stadiums built for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a country where football jostles with rugby and cricket for audience, destined to become white elephants after the month-long tournament?That's the 12.1-billion-rand, o...
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Tiger Brands Ltd. said a wheat mill it’s building at Hennenman in South Africa at a cost of 561 million rand ($75 million) will boost the company’s capacity by 25 percent.
Thousands of New Zealand parents will be offered free coaching courses to encourage more children to stick with soccer after the All Whites qualified for next year's World Cup in South Africa.
Johannesburg - South Africa has pulled out all the stops in building five new stadiums and upgrading five others for the World Cup. Initial fears that the new stadiums would not be completed on time for the tournament because of a late start to const...
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Adcock Ingram Holdings Ltd. , South Africa’s largest maker of over-the-counter drugs, said it will use Ghana’s Ayrton Drug Manufacturing Ltd.
Washington - After their surprising second place finish at the last Confederations Cup, the US national team are dreaming of another spot in the final on their return to South Africa for the World Cup. During the event, the team co-opted President Ba...
An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, according to a report issued on Tuesday in Shanghai by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Johannesburg - The last time South Africa hosted a major international football tournament was in 1996, when they welcomed 14 other countries for the African Cup of Nations. Going into the tournament nobody gave them a chance, but in the end, two goa...
Ceremony followed by performances welcomes Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma.
FIFA has called an emergency meeting of its executive committee ahead of the World Cup draw in South Africa to deal with incidents in the playoffs and match-fixing allegations in Europe. FIFA said Monday the meeting would take place Dec. 2, two days before the draw in Cape Town. FIFA's statement did not reveal the incidents.
Scoreboard in the second one-day international between South Africa and England at Centurion in South Africa on Sunday.
