Track-It Johannesburg

JOHANNESBURG -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday pressed Rwanda to keep its forces serving on peacekeeping missions despite anger over a draft report accusing the African nation's troops of atrocities and possible genocide in the... Read more

Sept. 08--JOHANNESBURG -- As South Africa's public servants began returning to work in earnest Wednesday, the cost of their 20-day strike, which they had suspended two days earlier, was starting to hit home. Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The game World Cup fans had yearned to see in South Africa this summer was played in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday, and even though it was a friendly, it pushed the Euro 2012 qualifiers going on in Europe to the back... Read more

JOHANNESBURG -- South African public-sector unions announced a return to work Monday after an acrimonious three-week strike marked by violence against several nurses who continued to work. Read more

Sept. 04--The 2010 FIFA World Cup was like the Super Bowl times 10 to most of the world.

Entire nations shut down to watch their team play in soccer's most prestigious event, just not here, where soccer ranks behind the major four pro... Read more

JOHANNESBURG — A nationwide civil service strike entering its third week is causing massive backlogs at courthouses, and a top South African lawyer said Friday that defendants whose legal proceedings are delayed could end up suing the... Read more

JOHANNESBURG -- A strike by 1.3 million South African public servants threatened Thursday to drag on for a third week as unions signaled that they would reject the government's latest compromise offer -- a wage hike that would be more than... Read more

JOHANNESBURG — A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry -- and erupting in anger -- in the world's poorest countries. Read more

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's government is withdrawing the special status granted to illegal Zimbabwean immigrants who fled their country's economic meltdown and political violence, a spokesman said Thursday. Read more

JOHANNESBURG — Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest, the regional director of International Medical Corps told The Associated Press. Read more