International

Top international and South African artists played to a crowd of nearly 50 000 people at a sold-out 46664 concert in Hyde Park, London on Friday night as Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebrations started in earnest.

The Pretoria high court has ruled that South African Chinese may be reclassified as black. This ruling will enable the group to benefit from the country’s employment equity and black empowerment legislation.

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Synthetic fuels producer Sasol has won a world-first approval from international aviation fuel authorities to go ahead with production of its 100% synthetic jet fuel.

India is to offer trade privilages to African states, including a duty-free tariff scheme to 34 least developed countries, as the world's fourth largest economy seeks to increase trade between itself and the continent from the current levels of some US$30-billion per year.

Driving from Cape Town to Cairo is hardly considered radical these days, but if you’re in your seventies and attempting to do so in an ultra luxury sedan, then perhaps it is.

Two of the world’s most promising emerging economies, India and South Africa are enjoying an increasingly lucrative trade relationship, valued at $5-billion in 2007 and set to rocket to $15-billion by 2015.

In May the International Media Forum will bring together local and international media to thrash out issues on how South Africa is portrayed in the world news.

The recent acquisition by China's largest bank of 20% of South Africa's Standard Bank is a watershed event in the growing relationship between China and the development of the African continent, writes John Battersby.

The recent acquisition by China's largest bank of 20% of South Africa's Standard Bank is a watershed event in the growing relationship between China and the development of the African continent, writes John Battersby.