South Africa is confident that it could become the newest member of BRIC, a powerful economic coalition of the four fastest-growing developing countries in the world - Brazil, Russia, India and China.

The government has once again called on negotiators to find a "win-win" solution to end the strike that has halted public schooling and hospital services across South Africa for over two weeks.

With no end in sight to the crippling public sector strike involving teachers, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has made a desperate appeal to members of the public to volunteer their time and help matric learners prepare for their final examinations, which start in the middle of October.

Bafana Bafana's quest to qualify for the 2012 African Nations Cup, which takes place in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, begins when they take on Niger at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Saturday night.

The JSE has setteld uncertainty about black ownership of JSE companies with the release of new data, which shows that black South African investors currently own 18% of the available share capital in the top 100 companies listed on the exchange.

With most of the country's commuter rail system reaching the end of its life span, the government is planning a massive investment in new rail infrastructure and technologies - including proposed high speed rail projects - that is expected to run for the next 20 years.

Seventy-one years of independent South African cinema will be celebrated this year when the Moosa family's Avalon Group, once almost destroyed by apartheid, opens a new luxury Cine Centre in the upmarket Killarney Mall in Johannesburg.

South African spirits and winemaker KWV's Laborie Alambic brandy has been voted the best brandy in the world at the International Wine and Spirits Competition in London for 2010.

South African Islamic investors and financiers are likely to be recognised by way of a new insertion in the Income Tax Act, which comes at a time when a growing number of countries are changing regulations to attract investors who can only put their money in Shariah compliant assets, says consult...

South African Islamic investors and financiers are likely to be recognised by way of a new insertion in the Income Tax Act, which comes at a time when a growing number of countries are changing regulations to attract investors who can only put their money in Shariah compliant assets, says consult...