Workers at gold mines in South Africa have threatened to strike from Tuesday in a row over pay. Talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the companies broke down earlier this week.<br />The union wants a sixty per cent increase in wages; the companies say this is unrealistic.<br />http://www.euronews.net/

Whackhead has a South African Whine

An attempt to make ballet more inclusive could revolutionize it in South Africa and, with luck, all around the world.

Miss Universe, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, returns to South Africa for the first time since wining her title in November.

Another South African High School fight

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The bogus sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death.

Sable helping South African entrepreneurs abroad

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Interview with Pro, a promising MC straight from South Africa who mixes hardcore hip hop to conscious lyrics and funky grooves.<br /><br />Fresh Today, Hot Tomorrow!

Al Qarra — Some people talk to their plants. Others, near Stellenbosch in South Africa, grow their grapevines to the sounds of Vivaldi. According to vintners at Demorgenzon wine estate, classical music has positive benefits for both plants and soil.

A South African judge sentenced four men convicted of murdering a Cape Town lesbian to 18 years in prison Wednesday, six years after her killing cast a spotlight on homophobic crimes. Although South Africa's cosmopolitan cities are tolerant towards homosexuality, the picture is not the same in all parts of the country. Duration: 02: 02

Police raided the home of South Africa’s powerful Gupta business family on Wednesday amid a stand-off between President Jacob Zuma and the ruling African National Congress that has ordered him to resign.<br /><br />► Subscribe to FT.com here:http://bit.ly/2GakujT<br /><br />► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs<br /><br />For more video content from the Financial Times, visit http://www.FT.com/video<br /><br /><br />Twitter https://twitter.com/ftvideo<br />Facebook https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes

A prominent South African apartheid-era activist and respected academic has announced a move into politics. Mamphela Ramphele is a fierce critic of president Jacob Zuma and says she is ready to take him on at next year's general election. Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports from Johannesburg.

Thousands of unionized and non-unionized workers are taking to the streets across South Africa.

At least nine people, including two police officers, have been killed in clashes between rival unions at a South African platinum mine.<br /><br />The violence is the most deadly incident in the standoff between the two unions.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Stephanie Scawen reports.

Young South African sommelier in London

Because i anwser to our children when you're nowhere to be found, <br />because i provide food with the scraps i was given; <br />I AM A WOMAN. <br /> <br />Because i am robbed of my privacy because i wont willinglt satisfy you, <br />because i have to accept htat i am no-longer a priority for i now have a fat belly; <br />I AM A SOUTH AFRICAN. <br /> <br />Because for my children i am forced to be your slave; restricted to household duties, <br />Because I am forced to tolerate your inappropriate behaviour a you get home late from the pub <br />I AM BLACK <br /> <br />Because I do what I have to, but not what I want to; <br />I AM A BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN<br /><br />Yolanda Mbatha<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem..../black-south-african