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A protester striking at a platinum mine in South Africa Thursday. Many in the crowd were armed.

Making Sense Of Marikana: The Deep Divisions Behind South Africa?s Miner Massacre

South Africa's miner protests underscore a new dynamic -- the organizations that once wrested power from an oppressive minority are now being targeted as oppressors themselves.

South African Miners Stage One-Day Strike

Tens of thousands of South Africans staged a one-day national strike on Wednesday, hitting mining production, as the biggest labour group in the continent's largest economy flexed its muscles to remind the ruling ANC of its political clout.

S.Africa eyes labour reform, railways to end poverty

Workers cut wood during the modernisation work at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenberg

South Africa's National Planning Commission unveiled a plan on Friday to reduce unemployment and poverty plaguing Africa's biggest economy, but key elements may be blocked by a powerful union in a governing alliance with the ruling ANC.

S.Africa union shakes labour market with wage cut plan

A struggling South African textile union may be changing the way labour is priced in Africa's largest economy by offering massive wage reductions to unskilled workers to create jobs and save a dying industry.

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S.African gold strike starts as petrol protest ends

Some 100,000 South African gold miners went on strike on Thursday, but fuel workers ended a stoppage that had slowed commerce and caused panic buying.

A shopper leaves a branch of Game supermarket chain in South Africa

S.Africa commission recommends Wal-Mart deal approval

South Africa's Competition Commission has recommended that retail group Wal-Mart's proposed acquisition of 51 percent of equity in Massmart be approved without conditions, the two companies said in a statement on Saturday.

President Zuma delivers his speech as he opens the 2011 session of the South African parliament in Cape Town

S.Africa's Zuma calls for jobs, private sector help

South African President Jacob Zuma called on the government and private sector to create jobs, setting aside billions of dollars to create work in Africa's largest economy, hard-hit by chronic unemployment. We urge every sector and every business entity, regardless of size, to focus on job creation.

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma delivers a speech at a Trade and Investment session of the G20 CEO summit in Seoul

S.Africa's Zuma to focus on cutting unemployment

South African President Jacob Zuma will use a major policy speech on Thursday to lay out his plans to create jobs in the regional economic power where unemployment has lingered at about 25 percent for years.

S.Africa to unveil R10 bln job fund: Mantashe

South Africa intends to create a 10 billion rand fund to tackle massive unemployment in Africa's biggest economy, the ANC's Secretary General Gwede Mantashe told Reuters on Tuesday.