South Africa

South Africa's Soweto gets its fashion week

25 May 2012

Struggling but deserving designers got a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history of South Africa's most famous township as Soweto's first fashion week opened Thursday.The township on ...

South Africa's rand steadies on euro zone concerns

25 May 2012

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's rand steadied on Friday against the dollar but remained under pressure from a weaker euro and the debt crisis sweeping its major European trading partners. The rand was slightly firmer at 8.3455 at 0646 GMT from New York's Thursday close of 8.3625 per dollar. "It seems as if markets took a breather in a day that saw little new information on the unfolding ...

South Africa: SKA Could Be Announced Tomorrow

25 May 2012

[BuaNews] Pretoria - South Africa is holding its breath as members of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation meet in the Netherlands tomorrow.