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SPOTLIGHT: What's on - week 16
Following Freedom Day celebrations, it is now a bank holiday weekend up ahead – the first one in May and with another one to follow at the end of May, we urge you to get outside!
1. Get down to Kew Gardens for a SA landscape
Key Gardens is gorgeous in s ...
Eastern Cape's 2010 festivals
A myriad of festivities awaits football fans visiting South Africa's Eastern Cape – where the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is situated – for the 2010 Fifa World Cup™. The province will be alight with a fever of festivals, from culture in Grahamstown to cult ...
Wits to open its own art museum
What do you do with 9 000 pieces of art? You build a 5 000m² museum and put them on glorious display, of course.
This is exactly what Wits University is doing, in a dream come true for the custodians of this extraordinary art collection. That dream has b ...
South Africans, pull together.
As the country marked Freedom Day on Tuesday, President Jacob Zuma reminded South Africans that everyone needed to work hard to defend the gains for which many had lost their lives. "We must work together to build our country and shape its future. We must ...
Make or break weekend awaits
After 11 weeks of Vodacom Super 14 action we still have as much as ten teams left harbouring hopes of semifinal qualification. Week 12, however, could see the end of the road for as many as four of our current contenders, while the top four is in for a ri ...
Official Freedom Day celebrations in South Africa
South Africans from all walks of life will today celebrate Freedom Day to mark the liberation of the country and its people from a long period of colonialism and apartheid. On 27 April 1994, millions of South Africans for the first time exercised their ha ...
SA surfer wins at global surfing awards
South African big wave surfer Grant “Twiggy” Baker took top honours, winning the “Ride of the Year” at the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. The award was presented at a glittering function in Anaheim, California this weekend.Baker, 36, pocketed US $5 ...
Flying the flag on Freedom Day
Ours is the only six-coloured national flag in the world and it's a potent symbol of unity and progress. The South African flag is also one of the youngest - sweet sixteen today, Freedom Day, 27 April 2010.
The new South African national flag first flew ...
Microsoft invests in South African talent
In one of the biggest equity-equivalent deals seen in South Africa to date, Microsoft is to invest almost half-a-billion rand in the local software industry over the next seven years as part of the company's broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) pr ...
Gauteng residents get behind national HIV campaign
Gauteng's chilly weather could not deter hundreds of South Africans from taking part in the country's HIV, Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign launch at Natalspruit Hospital in Ekurhuleni on Sunday.The campaign forms part of government's new and upscal ...
New product hopes to decrease baggage theft
Whether you’re a frequent flyer or an occasional globe trotter, it’s more than likely that you’ve thought about securing your luggage against theft. And it’s probably something many travellers will be thinking about as the World Cup kick off beckons, les ...
Sharks resurgence continues
The Sharks’ amazing season turn-around continued at ABSA Stadium on Saturday afternoon as they powered to a well deserved 23-10 Super 14 win over the Blues.
The Sharks thoroughly deserved their victory, as they dominated territory in the first half and t ...
World Cup impact 'still massive'
R93-billion gross, 695 000 annual jobs sustained, once-in-a-lifetime profiling of the country, and 370 000 foreign tourists – a smaller number, but staying longer and spending more than originally forecast. Consultancy Grant Thornton's post-recession proj ...
Cheetahs fight for Hamilton draw
The Vodacom Cheetahs restored some pride with a flawed, but fighting performance to draw 25-all with the Chiefs in Hamilton.
It was the first game that the Cheetahs haven’t lost in their history overseas, but the first win continued to elude them. Still, ...
Dutch group invests in SA mining
Dutch pension fund manager Algemene Pensioen Groep (APG) has committed US$250-million of equity capital to resources group Pallinghurst for investments in mining, $200-million (about R1.4-billion) of which has been earmarked for South Africa.
The commitm ...
The Democratic Alliance has launched a new e-newsletter
The Democratic Alliance has launched a new e-newsletter for DA supporters living outside of South Africa, titled DA Abroad, of which the first one was sent on 21 April 2010. You can also follow DA Abroad on Facebook and Twitter.
Below are a few of the st ...
SPOTLIGHT: What's on - week 15
It’s been quite a week for many South Africans around the world, especially those trying to get back into the UK and other parts of Europe. As ash grounded endless flights, so too did it strand endless South Africans! We hope by now that you are all back ...
New terminal at OR Tambo Airport
Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport has officially opened its new central terminal building, positioning it as a world-class facility with a passenger capacity of 28-million.
The domestic and international terminals have now been linked to impr ...
Property developers who save energy to be rewarded
The Department of Energy plans to offer a rebate for property developers who fit energy saving features in buildings.
Tabling the department's Budget Vote on Tuesday, Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters said there were still many hotels that didn't have ener ...
WC tickets now available at Shoprite-Checkers
South Africans can still get their hands on Category four tickets for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in some host venues
The tickets are still available for matches in Port Elizabeth, Polokwane, Nelspruit and Rustenburg, announced FIFA on Sunday.
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