March 12, 2010
The New York Times
   Cost of Stadium Reveals Tensions in South Africa -- The people who live nearby, proud as they are to host soccer’s greatest event, also wonder: How could there be money for a 46,000-seat stadium while many of them still fetch water from dirty puddles and live without electricity or toilets?
 
December 03, 2009
The South African Civil Society Information Service
   Time to Realign Agricultural Policy -- South African agricultural policy is obsessed with market driven agricultural models while disproportionately high numbers of our people remain hungry. This is a hangover from our historical legacy, which continues in the form of internal and external neo-liberal pressures on government to conform to the tyranny of the market.
 
April 22, 2009
BBC.com
   Huge turnout in South Africa poll -- A huge turnout in South Africa's general election has left officials struggling with long queues at polling stations and too few ballot papers.
 
April 01, 2009
South African Institute of International Affairs
   South African elections: A good example for the rest of Africa? -- While no election proceeds without hitches, the question is whether South Africa is setting a good example for the rest of the continent with the way its elections will be conducted.
 
February 10, 2009
BBC News
   South Africa poll set for April -- South Africa's President Kgalema Motlanthe has announced that general elections will take place on 22 April.
 
January 21, 2009
Irin: humanitarian news and analysis
   SOUTH AFRICA: For richer or for poorer -- The ranks of South Africa's richest are swelling but there has been scant decrease in the number of people still struggling to make ends meet, reflecting a country with ballooning economic inequality.
 
January 14, 2009
The South African Civil Society Information Service
   The Right to the City -- Governments around the world tend to force poor people off well located and therefore valuable urban land and into peripheral ghettoes. From New Orleans to Bombay and Johannesburg the story is the same.
 
October 23, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   Land redistribution back on the front burner -- A combination of political flux, higher food prices and the failure of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) - after 14 years of power - to achieve any meaningful redress of apartheid's most emotive legacy is forcing the land issue to the top of the national agenda, a few months ahead of South Africa's fourth democratic elections.
 
October 02, 2008
Pambazuka Nwes
   Struggle with no borders: Capitalism, nationalism and xenophobia in South Africa -- In a potent critique of the post-apartheid state and its role in the wave of xenophobic discrimination to have gripped the South African nation, Dale T. McKinley explores the roots of the country’s ‘macro-nationalist paradigm’ and its consequences in the shape of the contemporary pogroms of African foreigners.
 
October 02, 2008
Pambazuka Nwes
   Pambazuka News Statement on the change of leadership of the ANC government -- Amandla Publishers agrees with Archbishop Emeritus and the Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu that ‘[i]f South Africa was a democracy, there had to be certainty that those who led it were as uncorrupt as possible. It is a court of law that will ultimately decide whether [leaders are or not].’ Through publishing its bi-monthly Amandla! magazine, Amandla Publishers contributes to building left and working class organisations and debates.
 
September 24, 2008
Mail & Guardina On Line
   Mbeki resignation sparks concerns for Zim deal -- South African President Thabo Mbeki's resignation has raised new concerns about the fragile power-sharing deal he brokered just one week ago in neighbouring Zimbabwe, analysts said on Wednesday.
 
September 01, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   SOUTH AFRICA: Food security under threat -- JOHANNESBURG, 1 September 2008 (IRIN) - South Africans' food security - particularly the urban and rural poor, is under threat.
 
August 06, 2008
BBC News
   South Africa unions stage mass strike -- South African trade unions have held a one-day strike, which has caused widespread disruption and brought much of the economy to a standstill.
 
July 29, 2008
Health-e
    South Africa still has biggest HIV epidemic, says UNAIDS -- South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world with an estimated 5,7-million people living with HIV in 2007.
 
July 16, 2008
Pambazuka News
   Mandela: A diaspora view -- In the eyes of the African Diaspora Nelson Mandela came to represent an image that was “larger than life.”
 
June 25, 2008
BBC News
   Africa's new 'Frontline States' -- For southern African leaders meeting in Swaziland under the auspices of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), the election crisis in Zimbabwe may be proving a headache
 
June 24, 2008
BBC
   children terrified by SA xenophobia -- Ten-year-old Fortune watched a man being shot dead in front of him as he accompanied his mother to the grocer's store.
 
June 04, 2008
BBC News
   South Africa: Behind the violence -- What was it that led to around 100,000 foreigners being driven from homes in South Africa?
 
May 28, 2008
BBC News
   S Africa to set up migrant camps -- South Africa is to set up seven camps around the country for foreign migrant workers who have fled a recent wave of anti-immigrant violence.
 
May 23, 2008
BBC News
   ANC call to 'retake the streets' -- The secretary general of South Africa's governing ANC has called on party members to form local committees to combat violence against foreigners.
 
May 23, 2008
BBC News
   SA violence spreads to Cape Town -- Violence against foreigners in South Africa spread to Cape Town overnight with people assaulted and shops looted.
 
May 22, 2008
BBC News
   South African Troops sent into Streets -- Increasing violence demonstrates tensions within the Southern African region. Indeed, turmoil in neighboring Zimbabwe has had intense regional consequences.
 
May 19, 2008
BBC News
   Thousands flee South Africa Attacks -- Xenophobia in South Africa increases as a result of unrest in the region and an influx of new immigrants fleeing violence in their homeland.
 
May 16, 2008
BBC News
    Refugees flee South Africa attacks -- "Stu" escaped from Zimbabwe in January, crossing the border for the sanctuary of South Africa.
 
April 23, 2008
IRIN-humanitarian news and analysis
   SOUTHERN AFRICA: Human trafficking on the upswing -- The victims of human trafficking in Southern Africa are often invisible because many countries in the region have failed to implement laws to combat it.
 
March 31, 2008
HRW
   South Africa: Lead UN to Action on Somalia, Darfur and Burma -- Use Security Council Presidency to Save Lives
 
March 31, 2008
IRIN-humanitarian news and analysis
   SOUTH AFRICA: Rights body to probe mines over alleged abuse -- JOHANNESBURG, 31 March 2008 (IRIN) - Alleged human rights abuses by Anglo Platinum (AP), the worlds leading producer of platinum, could spark investigations through-out South Africa’s mining industry.
 
March 25, 2008
BBC News
   Who pays the price of platinum? -- Mining giant Anglo American courts prime ministers and presidents, keen to be seen as leading the way in corporate responsibility.
 
March 13, 2008
IRIN
   SOUTH AFRICA: HIV major factor in rising child deaths -- JOHANNESBURG, 13 March 2008 (PlusNews) - Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing child mortality by two-thirds, the country is among only a dozen worldwide where child deaths are rising.
 
March 03, 2008
Sun Times
   Is racism on the rise again in South Africa? -- Some say it's more overt now