South Africa has been awarded the title of most valuable nation brand on the continent, with its recent inclusion in the BRICS grouping and successful hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup contributing to strong positive perceptions both locally and abroad.

The State Department will be expanding the joint educational programs between the United States Government and the South African Department of Higher Education and Training...to link community colleges across the United States with Further Education and Training centers in South Africa.

A singer, instrumentalist and composer, Gilberto Gil is Brazil’s ambassador of culture and he’s played this role both as a musician and as an activist… He’s in South Africa this week for a musical project that explores the cultures of the southern people, called Connecting South.

When the $650 million West Africa Cable System landed in South Africa last week, it was a major step forward for a region that remains one of the least-connected in the world. With one East African sea cable connecting South Africa with high-speed Internet systems in Asia and the Middle East, and now a second sea cable connecting southern Africa with West Africa and Europe, South Africa's capacity of mobile phone networks and Internet networks will double.

France and South Africa are talking the “same language” on issues such as strengthening the Group of 20 (the world’s most important economies) and the reform of the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane told The Africa Report.

South Africa has long seen itself as a voice of developing nations. Now as a member of the BRICS club – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa – it can speak with the political heft of a fifth of the world's economy behind it.

In what is certainly the most bizarre instance of public self-repudiation in my lifetime, the South African judge ( who administered numerous death sentences in the apartheid era) took to the opinion pages of The Post to announce he was wrong about Israel’s conduct in Gaza...

If the heart of foreign policy is its vision then a cardiogram of South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy would start with some fairly lively scratches: Nelson Mandela's lofty but somewhat naive vision of external relations...