Johannesburg (South Africa)

Pontiff's unprecedented attention won loyalty of many congregants

2005-04-04 00:00:00

SOWETO, South Africa - At yesterday's generally somber Mass, hymn-singing members of the Regina Mundi Catholic Church choir danced a stutter-step down the aisle as congregants slapped hymnbooks to the beat. Just outside the cavernous sanctuary, cars on a...

Many fear Mandela mania is too much of a good thing

2004-04-11 00:00:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- On a recent sunny afternoon, several hundred South African celebrities, business leaders and other guests raised flutes of champagne to celebrate the unveiling of a 20-foot-high bronze statue of Nelson Mandela at one of...

S. Africa's new goal: economic equality

2004-04-27 00:00:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - When Peter-Paul Ngwenya, executive chairman of Makana Investment Corp. decided to buy a new car last month, he paid cash for a BMW 5-Series and had the dealer deliver the gleaming automobile to the front door of his spacious...

S.Africa finds collusion, manipulation in Gupta scandal

2013-05-19 07:26:02

By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President...

Wendell Teacher Receives Grant to Study in South Africa

2013-05-17 04:14:02

Troy Hamilton, an adjunct history professor at the College of Southern Idaho and history and government teacher at Wendell High School, received a national award to study in South Africa. He is one of 25 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...

UPDATE 3-Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to "standstill"

2013-05-17 05:32:03

* Mineworkers union leader demands meeting with Zuma * ANC deputy president says hard to tell what is going on * Rand slides to four-year low against dollar By Xola Potelwa RUSTENBURG, South Africa, May 17 (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's...

Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill'

2013-05-17 05:34:01

RUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday to bring Africa's No. 1 economy "to a standstill" and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month...

Miners union threatens strike at South Africa's Amplats

2013-05-16 12:12:04

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum reported for work late Thursday, and a labor leader said the workers will strike on Friday in an escalation of unrest that sent the company's shares lower and the rand to a four-...

Amplats says South Africa miners report for morning shift

2013-05-16 23:10:03

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) reported for work on Friday, a company spokeswoman said, despite earlier calls for a strike by some union leaders. Amplats spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole said all workers...

S. Africa Amplats miners to stop work from Thursday night

2013-05-16 02:05:04

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum operations will stage a work stoppage from Thursday evening over proposed job cuts, a branch official for mineworkers union AMCU told Reuters. "The night shift today is not going...

South African union urges Lonmin workers to end strike

2013-05-15 08:14:01

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - The main union at Lonmin's South African platinum shafts told striking miners to return to work on Wednesday, potentially defusing a two-day wildcat action that had raised fears of a fresh wave of labor violence....

Lonmin's South African platinum strike enters second day

2013-05-15 05:38:01

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Labor strife in South Africa's platinum belt intensified on Wednesday as a wildcat strike across Lonmin's shafts entered a second day, raising fears that further violence could hit the country's credit rating....

President Mandela with Pope John Paul II in Johannesburg during the pontiff's first official visit to South Africa.

2013-03-09 10:10:00

Nonstop service from Johannesburg, South Africa, to New York's JFK airport is a 16 hour trip, 7,970 miles are traversed, which is taken in consideration. In coach, the 2-4-2 seat configuration reduces the number of middle seats that regularly appear on planes with 3-3-3 arrangements.

2012-04-04 15:49:00

It takes four pilots and two separate flight crews to handle Delta Flight 200 from Atlanta, Ga., to Johannesburg, South Africa. The Boeing 777LR used to make this trip travels 8,433 miles for 16 hours, 15 minutes.

2012-04-04 15:49:00