Johannesburg - South Africa will host talks on resolving Zimbabwe's political impasse, reports said Thursday. 

High-ranking representatives of the ruling Zanu-PF party of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) of Morgan Tsvangirai are planning to meet in South Africa's Pretoria, the Business Day newspaper reported. 

MDC second-in-command Tendai Biti, who was charged with treason in June, will also attend the talks. 

The High Court in Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Biti to travel abroad for the talks, ordering his passport be returned. 

Lusaka  - A fire has put the start of production at what is expected to be Africa's largest open-pit copper plant on ice, media in the southern African country of Zambia reported Wednesday.

Washington, July 9 : Preparations for an African ‘wall of trees’ to slow down the southwards spread of the Sahara desert are getting underway.

New Delhi - India's Reliance Communications and South Africa's largest mobile phone network operator MTN on Wednesday said they were extending exclusive talks until July 21 to discuss a potential combination of their businesses.

MTN and Reliance Communications, India's second largest telecom company, started talks on May 26, that could create a 70-billion-dollar global wireless group with more than 115 million subscribers operating in about two dozen countries.

The 45-day deadline to work out details of a merger ended on July 8.

"RCOM and MTN have agreed to continue their negotiations in relation to such potential business combination, and have extended the period of exclusivity until 21st July

Johannesburg - Britain and South Africa's foreign ministers stru

Johannesburg/Mumbai, July 7: South Africa's MTN is considering walking away from a telecom tie-up with India's Reliance Communications over fears that Anil Ambani's ongoing acrimonious spat with el