South African leader braces self to head off impeachment threat
Johannesburg—Cyril Ramaphosa may have insisted over the weekend he will not resign, but the South African president still faces a ...
Read moreTag: South Africa
Scandal-hit South African President Ramaphosa seeks to hang on to power
Johannesberg—South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, embroiled in scandal and under threat of impeachment, has no intention of resigning and will ...
Read more
ABB to pay $315m to Africa to settle US bribery charges
NEW YORK—Swedish-Swiss industrial company ABB agreed to pay $315 million to settle US criminal charges that it bribed state-owned Eskom ...
Read more
Mom with P92m shabu nabbed in NAIA
Customs agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have arrested another suspected drug mule carrying a baggage with P92.2 ...
Read moreGreen future is cause for worry in South Africa’s coal belt
Miner Thokozani Mtshweni, 37, looks spent as he readies for a 12-hour shift huddled under a carport shelter to avoid ...
Read more
Charles III to host S.African president in first state visit of reign
King Charles III will next month host the first state visit of his new reign when South African President Cyril ...
Read morePower outages set to plunge South Africa into darkness
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Africa’s most industrialized economy South Africa is again facing sweeping power cuts, caused by failures at aging and ...
Read moreSouth Africa ‘firm’ on ties with Russia
WASHINGTON -- South Africa’s leader on Friday agreed to cooperate closely with US President Joe Biden on health, security and ...
Read more
Johannesburg transport project digs into wounds of the past
By Griffin Shea Off Johannesburg's main highway, surrounded by skyscrapers, heavy machinery has unearthed one of the city's original wounds ...
Read moreSouth Africa’s business owners fume as power cuts hit profits
South Africans' annoyance at power cuts has given way to worry, with business owners complaining that the prolonged energy crisis ...
Read more
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.