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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- South African manufacturing fell 9.3 percent in October from a year ago, the smallest drop in 10 months, as the global recession eased, adding to signs the economy is recovering.
Three South African police officers were arrested after a woman complained that they had stolen her marijuana, SAPA news agency reported on Monday.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The rand strengthened versus the dollar, reversing an earlier 0.5 percent decline. South Africa’s currency traded 0.2 percent stronger at 7.5275 by 12:48 p.m. in Johannesburg, from a close of 7.5461 yesterday. Earlier it traded as weak as 7.5862, the worst level since Nov. 27.
(RTTNews) - After a slight slip in early European session, the US currency surged up against the South African rand in New York deals on Tuesday.
South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport and togetherness in racially divided South Africa provides a timely lesson as the country prepares to host next year's World Cup.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Absa Capital , the investment banking unit of Barclays Plc’s Absa Group Ltd. , is hiring bankers from Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. as it builds an equities trading business to expand its services.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- SABMiller Plc said the value of a stake that will be sold to black investors increased by 22 percent after its share price rose and the number of participants climbed.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Pick n Pay Stores Ltd. fell the most in almost seven weeks as the company faces a Dec. 11 strike by members of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The rand weakened after reports showed contractions in the retail and manufacturing industries are continuing, adding to concern the currency’s 25 percent rally this year may slow South Africa’s recovery from recession.
On the outskirts of Cape Town In the the township of Khayelitsha, lesbians who dare to come out to their community are being violently hauled off the streets and raped by cloaked men in order to "correct" their behavior. Earlier this year, Eudy Simelane , former star of South Africa's acclaimed Banyana Banyana national female football squad, was found dead in a creek on the outskirts of ...
Lisa Schwarzbaum: I hate songs in non-musical movies -- especially dramas -- that tell us what to feel
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar pared its drop against the euro, Australian currency and Norwegian krone as Standard & Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating outlook, discouraging demand for higher-yielding assets.
South Africa has the largest number of HIV-infected people on the planet, but the country is taking aggressive new steps to fight AIDS.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell 505.33, or 1.8 percent, to 26,901.54 by 10:48 a.m. in Johannesburg. The following are among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
MPUMALANGA, South Africa -- Ernie Els returns this week to the scene of one of his sweetest wins -- and one of his biggest blunders.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Zambeef Product Plc, Zambia’s biggest meat producer, said profit for the year through September fell 58 percent to 15.7 billion Zambian kwacha ($3.4 million), according to an e-mailed statement.
South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged African leaders attending global climate talks to stand firm on demands that poor countries should receive money to meet pollution targets.
Surfers in Hawaii got a rare treat, as waves pounding Oahu's famed North Shore reached 40 feet -- high enough for an extreme surfing competition that last happened five years ago.
(Corrects to say stake is equivalent to 14.1 percent in terms of government’s codes on black empowerment in second paragraph.) Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- SABMiller Plc said the value of a stake that will be sold to black investors increased by 22 percent after its share price rose and the number of participants climbed.
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Kagisho Dikgacoi has pleaded with Fulham to allow him to leave on loan in order to safeguard his place in the South Africa squad for the World Cup finals.
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