South Africa in the News on 6 June 2012

Africa: Press Review 5 June 2012AllAfrica.comBy Marjorie Hache, 5 June 2012 The justice system in Zimbabwe and a controversial painting in South Africa are among the issues covered in today's Afri more…

Cricket365.comCanned Boxing Day Test stumps DurbanIndependent OnlineBy Patrick Compton and Lungelo Mkamba File photo: For the first time in two decades South Africa will not play a Boxing Day Test cri more…

ATM bombings continue unabated in South AfricaNew York Daily NewsCape Town, June 6 — Attacks on Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) have gone up rapidly in South Africa this year, with 18 cash machines more…

Independent OnlineSouth Africa's Jacob Zuma, UnzippedThe Root(The Root) — President Jacob Zuma of South Africa is again in the news for reasons that have to do with his marital history and sexual more…

AFPSouth Africa fires coach MosimaneFox NewsCape Town, South Africa – South Africa has fired coach Pitso Mosimane following a disappointing start to 2014 World Cup qualifying. South Africa tied Ethi more…

Telegraph.co.ukSouth Africa v England: Geoff Parling confident Stuart Lancaster's men can …Telegraph.co.ukBy Mick Cleary, Rugby Union Correspondent, in Durban The stakes were hotting up right ac more…

Transnet CEO to Deliver Keynote at Breakbulk Africa 2012 CongressMarketWatch (press release)NEWARK, NJ, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Brian Molefe, CEO of Transnet, South Africa's larges more…

Cricket365.comSouth Africa replaces Boxing Day Test with T20International News NetworkJOHANNESBURG: South Africa have replaced their traditional Boxing Day Test with a Twenty20 international for the 2 more…

Zee NewsBoth South Africa and Australia Win SKADiscovery NewsFrom alien-looking "Luneburg lenses" to a "field of Arecibos", the choices were narrowed down until the somewhat famili more…

NEWS.com.auEngland braced for physical confrontationChicago TribuneDURBAN (Reuters) – England are braced for a physical onslaught when they take on South Africa in the first test of a three-match seri more…

Miners gain in South Africa, telecoms take a hitReutersMobile phone operator MTN took a knock to fall by more than 1 percent on news that South Africa's elite Hawks police unit would be investigat more…

South Africa: Philippi Protests Over Lack of Electricity ContinueAllAfrica.comBy Nombulelo Damba, 5 June 2012 Lansdowne Road, which runs from Cape Town's southern suburbs through Gugulethu to Khay more…

Times LIVE'Mining magic' will flow from 'South Africa first' strategy – LekgotlaCreamer Media’s Mining WeeklyJOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Black and white South Africans could more…

TEXT-Fitch affirms Mercedes-Benz South Africa notes at 'AA(zaf)'ReutersJune 5 – Fitch Ratings has affirmed Mercedes Benz South Africa (Pty) Ltd's (MBSA) ZAR18 billion domestic medium-term more…

Times LIVESouth Africa: Municipalities spend 63.8% of adjusted budgets7thSpace Interactive (press release)Pretoria – Municipalities had spent 63.8% or R163.9 billion of the total adjusted budget of R2 more…

Spyghana.comSouth Africa: IFC Investment in Assupol Helps Expand Access to Insurance for …AllAfrica.comJohannesburg, South Africa, June 5, 2012 — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, agreed toda more…

South Africa struggles with social welfare fraudUPI.comIn the past year, South Africa lost the equivalent of 3 cents out of every dollar, to social welfare fraud. The new biometric-based payment syste more…

South Africa: SADC faces shortage of tertiary institutions7thSpace Interactive (press release)In South Africa, only 33% of our academics have PhD qualifications and depend only on them to produce rese more…

South Africa: Young people urged to preserve the environment7thSpace Interactive (press release)The minister said South Africa was part of the global campaign to promote sustainable development and wa more…

Moneycontrol.comSouth Africa police probe MTN Iran graft allegationsReutersBy Helen Nyambura-Mwaura | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa's elite Hawks police unit has opened an investigation in more…