South Africa

One of South Africa’s most-loved sons of the water, Cameron van der Burgh, is in Greece to tie the knot with his Greek fiancée, Nefeli Valakelis. The couple, both 30, will exchange vows at a cliff-side villa in the Greek...

The Greek community in South Africa commemorated Greek Independence Day on Sunday March 18 in Johannesburg with a liturgy at the Orthodox Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen, followed by a festival at Saheti School. Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria...

(George Bizos (left) with Terence Quick) Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Quick honored South Africa's emblematic lawyer George Bizos at a special event in Johannesburg on Sunday. Bizos was Nelson Mandela's lawyer and one of the three writers of South Africa's...

South Africa's competition watchdog announced it had given a green light to the sale of the South African Bank of Athens (SABA), owned by Greece's National Bank (NBG), to a subsidiary of AFGRI Holdings and Fairfax Africa Investment. Greece's second-largest...

The Federation of Hellenic Communities and Societies of South Africa recently announced in a press release that following Hellenes have been elected unanimously by the Hellenes of South Africa as the Presidium of the Federation of Hellenes: President: John Philippou 1ST...

In South Africa, Greek-Cypriots Christo and Theo Menelaou were blessed with triplets -- identical girl twins and a boy -- through a surrogate. The occasion is quite rare as twins are in IVF as well as the DNA, or sperm donation,...

It is very likely that in the near future feta cheese commercials around the world will not be accompanied by the sound of bouzouki and beautiful Greek island landscapes. Feta cheese is at risk of losing its Protected Designation...

CNN International has hired Greek journalist Eleni Giokos as a business correspondent, to be based in the network’s Johannesburg bureau. Giokos was previously with Bloomberg TV Africa, and now she is to take on a range of responsibilities for CNN. In...

SkyGreece Airlines will act as a communication bridge between the Greek Diaspora in the U.S. and Canada and the motherland through the launch of transatlantic flights from Greece to New York and Toronto. During a press conference that took place on April...

Greece ranks in tenth place in the percentage of women holding top management positions, according to a report entitled "Women in business: the path to leadership" conducted by Grant Thornton to coincide with International Women's Day. Greek women holding...