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Happy Braai 4 Heritage Day
Desmond Tutu shares a special video message for Braai 4 Heritage Day, also known as National Heritage Day as celebrated on 24 September.
As the patron of Braai 4 Heritage, 'The Arch' made a public and direct appeal to all South Africans citizens to braai on this day.
From all of us at SA PROMO Magazine, happy braai day - we hope you have a brilliant braai! Send us your photos to editor@sapromo.com.
Social Good Day - using social media for social good!
(RED)'s cause is to fight AIDS in Africa. Together with Mashable, (RED) have declared 23 September 'Social Good Day', with the intention of encouraging people across the world to use social media for social good!
Around the world, people are invited to attend or organise a meetup in your community to celebrate, share, educate and engage in a discussion on how social media can be used to tackle some of the ...
SA BRANDY king of the world
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 London over the weekend. It brings the number of times a local brandy has triumphed at this event to an astonishing nine times in the past 12 years. It's also ...
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 environmental -will be addressed during the first meeting, which will be held between 19 and 25 September in New York, said the Presidency in a statement.
Zuma will ...
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 Women's Day when in 1956, women from all races and walks of life marched to the Union Buildings in protest against oppressive pass laws. This year marks the 54 ...
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 partner in the promotion of development, socio-economic and political progress, as well as stability in the globalising world.
"Given the similarities of ...
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 Court was abuzz as high profile and ordinary citizens visited the court to watch the sentencing of the 60 year old former top cop. It was an important d ...
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 2010 where the two signed minutes of talks relating to police operations between the two countries after their discussions.
The talks focused on intensifyin ...
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 publishing houses.
The magazine won the 2010 gold award in the best single issue category, which Tabpi describes as 'the competition's most comprehensive, in a c ...
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 889 women by the Durban-based Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa) found that a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral dru ...
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 July 2010, Clinton commended South Africa's community health worker programme and was applauded when he said that Zuma 'is proud that his country is no long ...
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 held on 16 July 2010.
The campaign, which already has its own website and Facebook page, has been endorsed by South African President Jacob Zuma in a speech ...
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 Cup ended on Sunday, what most surprised South Africans was how much the monthlong sporting extravaganza had changed the way they see themselves.
“This W ...
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 Cape Town was named Africa's leading destination, at an awards ceremony held in Sandton, Johannesburg. South African Airways was named Africa's leading airlin ...
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 June 2010 issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Muller, a surgeon at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Surgery in the Fac ...
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 ten in several African languages. The character was created by Capetonion Andries Odendaal and was first presented to the world on 22 September 2008. Zakumi ...
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 arrived to cheers and song from the team, members of his family and his staff.
Captain Aaron Mokoena introduced Mandela to all the team members, including co ...
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 central role in coordinating and managing all IAU educational activities, as well as in recruiting and mobilising volunteers.
South Africa was chosen as t ...
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.
"Gandar was editor of the Johannesburg-based Rand Daily Mail from 1957 to 1969, leading the paper at a time when the country it served was going through a s ...
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 most popular and most viewed videos in South Africa along with local content that closely matches their interests. The local site is YouTube's first domain on ...
