The South African Rand continues to reach record lows last seen in 2011 as investors sell off their emerging market stock amid reductions in the Federal Reserve stimulus.

One of the biggest concerns of prospective points based immigration applicants is whether their dependants will have permission to work in the UK.

Zimbabwe welcomes Yuans, Yens and Rupees to its complicated currency market, as trade with Asia intensifies amid an economic downturn

As funds run out to bankroll Zimbabwe’s public school system, Robert Mugabe’s government turns to help from Britain in hope of financial aid to keep one million children in school

A gruesome murder story involving a payment dispute between groups of suspected ivory poachers in rural Zimbabwe highlights the brutal reality of elephant poaching in Africa

Economists are surprised by rate hike as South Africa’s economy struggles to recover

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Forget Sandton, forget Rosebank and Hillbrow – Gauteng is set to transform into Africa’s skyscraper capital if investors and urban planners will have their way

The former South African President might come back to the National Assembly as an MP – if the ANC let him

The South African Rand has broken barriers unseen in recent years as it reached R18.50 to the British Pound last week. While the currency has taken a significant beating since May last year, when the US Federal Reserve first announced plans to taper its quantitative easing programme, last week’s woes can be attributed to renewed […]

In a stunning message this morning the Democratic Alliance announced that its number one seat for the 2014 general elections is reserved for Agang SA leader Dr. Mamphela Ramphele

Alone in a pit latrine, a Grade R learner died – now, a nation waits to find out whether anyone will be punished, or whether anything will change – other, of course, than the arrival of Portaloos at his school this week

The South African government remains tight-lipped about the alleged development of a spy satellite which reportedly cost the taxpayer R1.2 billion.

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Anthrax scares may give a little more satisfaction than slamming down the phone on the SANRAL hotline, but is this lurch towards dirty tricks a good thing for democracy?

Representatives from the British Council and South African Department of Basic Education met in London to sign a Declaration of Intent on English language cooperation.

Six months after negotiations, the wealthy Pistoriuses have allegedly offered Reeva Steenkamp’s family R2 million – less than half a year of Oscar’s annual earnings before the shooting. But is it enough for them to settle, mere weeks before the start of Oscar’s real trial?

New, more accurate measurement of Nigeria’s GDP may knock the South off its pedestal as Africa’s biggest deal, in economic terms. This is good news for South Africa, where Africa’s better-off enjoy shopping for trade deals as well as luxury goods. But the hard question remains: why aren’t we growing that fast as well?

South Africans have flocked to foreign missions around the globe to register as voters over the last two weeks. But others have complained that locations for registration were too limited – leaving South Africa’s huge community in Perth, for instance, having to drive two 80-hour round trips to register and vote.

Five years, three years: that is how long they lived on the seas unable to flee, without pay, in hellish conditions. With the capture of 75 ‘slave’ fisherman off the coast of South Africa, how long will it be before the world can agree to tighten inspection of oceangoing craft?

The first black African to power into space is gearing up to go from part-time DJ in a South African township to the second Afronaut – and all because of a body spray…

Jamaica made a bob sled team — and now Zimbabwe will be competing in the Winter Olympics for the first time ever. South Africa, however, will not be sending any athletes to Sochi.

A wheelchair-bound British war veteran decided to do a 3,400m tandem skydive in Johannesburg after his wife died and he became determined not to ‘sit and rot away’.

An 29.6-carat blue diamond with the ‘potential to yield a polished stone of great value and importance’ has been discovered at the famous Cullinan mine.

South Africa’s International Relations Minister is in Switzerland for the high-level international peace meeting. South Africa believes there can be no military solution to the conflict in Syria.