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SA BRANDY king of the world New!
A South African brandy has once again conquered the global spirits industry's expert palates and been voted 'Best brandy in the world'. The accolade went to Laborie Alambic Brandy at the 2010 International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC) held in Lon ...
Zuma to serve on UN panel
President Jacob Zuma has been requested by United Nations Secretary General Ban ki Moon to serve as co-chair of the United Nations Second Panel on Climate Change Sustainability.
The three pillars of climate change - namely economic, social and environmen ...
Women's Day and the decade for African women
To celebrate national Women's Day in South Africa, 9 August 2010, an event was held at Absa Stadium in East London, South Africa where President Jacob Zuma addressed the attendees.
South Africa's commemoration of August as Women's Month is marked by Wome ...
Zuma to visit Russia
President Jacob Zuma will pay an official visit to Russia from 4-6 August 2010 as part of his stepped-up trade offensive aimed at members of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
South Africa considers the Russian Federation as an important strategic ...
Justice seen to be done as Selebi sentenced to 15 years
Justice triumphed in South Africa on 3 August 2010 as former police chief and head of Interpol, Jackie Selebi was sentenced to 15 years for graft in what is arguably the highest fall from political heights the country has ever seen. The Johannesburg High ...
SA and Chinese police work together
South African and Chinese police have strengthened the ties between them and vowed to help each other fight crime. Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula met with the People's Republic of China's Vice Minister of Public Safety Chen Zhimin at end of July 20 ...
SA business magazine best in the world
South African glossy business-to-business magazine Leadership has been named the best in the world in the annual Tabbie awards presented by the US-based Trade Association Business Publications International (Tabpi), an association of more than 100 publish ...
SA centre in Aids gel breakthrough
The HIV/Aids prevention community is abuzz with excitement over news that South African research has developed a vaginal gel – known as a microbicide – that can reduce sexually transmitted HIV infection by as much as 54%.
A two-and-a-half-year study of 8 ...
Clinton praises Zuma at World Aids Conference
Former US President Bill Clinton has praised President Jacob Zuma during a speech at the 18th World Aids Conference in Vienna, Austria, saying that South Africa is no longer a 'pariah in the fight against AIDS'.
Speaking at the conference on Monday 19 J ...
Keep flying the flag campaign
Brand South Africa is to keep the momentum of solidarity and national pride built up in the country during the 2010 FIFA World Cup by morphing its successful Football Fridays campaign into a new Fly the Flag Fridays initiative, with the first one to be he ...
Games give SA hope in fighting woes
As host of the most-watched sporting event on earth, South Africa set out to reinvent itself in the eyes of the world, casting off its reputation as a place defined by violent crime, poverty and AIDS. To a remarkable degree, it succeeded. But as the World ...
SA wins big at global travel awards
South Africa cleaned up at the annual World Travel Awards for Africa last night, winning 36 awards out of the total 49 categories. Despite the pyramids, Egypt, its nearest rival, managed to win only four.
For the sixth time in seven years the city of Cap ...
SA first to do HIV kidney transplant
Cape Town doctor Elmi Muller and her team have pioneered a technique to transplant kidneys between HIV-positive donors and recipients. Between September and November 2008 the team performed four pioneering procedures, which are now described in the 17 Jun ...
Zakumi turns sweet sixteen
The yellow and green official World Cup mascot turns 16 today, coinciding with the public holiday in South Africa for Youth Day. His name is Zakumi and he is a leopard with green hair.
The name Zakumi comes from ZA for South Africa and 'kumi' meaning t ...
Madiba meets Bafana Bafana
Nelson Mandela met Bafana Bafana's World Cup team at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices in Johannesburg on Thursday 3 June to wish the team well for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
Wearing a Bafana Bafana jersey carrying the captain's number "4", Mandela arr ...
SA to host international astrology office
The South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town has won a bid to host the International Astronomical Union's (IAU's) Office for Astronomy Development, which will play a key role in taking astronomy to the developing world.
The office will play a ...
South African editor honoured as World Press Freedom he...
South African editor Laurence Gandar was on Wednesday declared a World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI), and will be honoured at a ceremony in September. Laurence Gandar was editor of the Rand Daily Mail from 1957 to 1969.
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YouTube arrives in South Africa
Technology giant Google has launched www.youtube.co.za, a South African version of YouTube that offers local users a way to easily discover local content and content producers. When users in South Africa visit the site they will see, for example, the mos ...
WIN: Tickets to 11 June World Cup party in Birmingham
On Friday 11 June 2010, Birmingham will join the world in celebrating the first FIFA World Cup to be held on the continent of Africa, when the tournament kicks off at Soccer City in South Africa.
South Africa is a country with a remarkably vibrant multic ...
UK's two princes to head to SA for World Cup
England's Princes William and Harry will be among guests attending the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, their press office said last week. The two men would land in the country today to join a reception to celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup and meet members ...
