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Insight: Road builder Sata enthuses Zambians but unnerves foreign investors
KATOBA, Zambia (Reuters) - John Moyo is at the end of the road. At least now it's paved. "I never imagined a paved road coming to my village," said the...
Small Zambia cash grants pay big dividends for rural poor
LUSAKA (Reuters) - In rural Africa, where money is scarce and subsistence farming the norm, even small injections of cash can go far and help grow a local economy in...
South Africa’s AMCU union says members vote for Implats strike
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union said on Monday its members voted to strike at Impala Platinum , but it would not immediately give the...
Amplats to cut 7,000 South African jobs, union ‘shocked’
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said it planned almost 7,000 job cuts at its South African operations including thousands of compulsory lay-offs, drawing an angry response from a...
Exclusive: South Africa’s NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage rises from gold, coal producers
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh...
Lonmin’s South African platinum workers end strike
MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Workers at Lonmin's South African platinum shafts were ending a walkout, the company said on Wednesday, easing fears that a two-day strike could ignite fresh...
Union organizer shot dead in South Africa’s restive platinum belt
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A militant South African union said on Sunday that one of its organizers had been shot dead in the platinum belt city of Rustenburg, a potential flashpoint...
South Africa says Mandela’s condition has improved
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The condition of South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela has improved further, the government said on Sunday, as the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero spent a fourth day in...
Nelson Mandela ‘comfortable’, treated for pneumonia
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is comfortable and able to breathe without problems as he continues to respond to treatment in hospital for a recurrence of...
Workers at South Africa’s Amplats down tools: labor leader
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at the Rustenburg operations of South Africa's Anglo American Platinum refused to work overnight shifts in protest at company plans to close mines, a labor leader...