IMPORTANT NOTICE!
WELCOME, You are in the old website section up to 2011, please click HOME to view the website in the new 2012 design and system. THANK YOU!
News
- SA Events (43)
- SA News Abroad (9)
- South African Newspapers (8)
- South African Rand (10)
South Africa set for Global Forum
South Africa hosts the 11th Fortune/TIME/CNN Global Forum, which sees global leaders and CEOs of multinational companies gathering to focus on substantive issues and opportunities in the developing world, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 26 to 28 June.
Organised by the Department of Trade and Industry, the forum will include the department's annual Africa Dialogue, which is designed to ...
Cheetahs give Auckland dose of the blues
The lowly Cheetahs recorded just their third win of the season and ended the semifinals ambitions of the Auckland Blues with a 36-32 victory in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
A Blues side lacking injured skipper and hooker Keven Mealamu needed a bonus-point win to retain any hope of making the knockout phase and must have fancied their chances against rivals who had won just twice in 10 outings.
But the Cheeta ...
Bulls double strike downs Sharks
The Vodacom Bulls virtually booked their place in the playoff rounds of the Vodacom Super 14 this year with a clinical late double strike to down the Sharks 27-19 at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
With the victory – the 17th consecutive win at Loftus Versfeld – the Bulls moved up to 43 points on the log, five ahead of the Stormers and just two points away from assuring themselves of a home semifinal.
Like t ...
Imagineering the future of South Africa
South Africa's leading thinkers and academics will descend on Cape Town on 6 and 7 May to look at future trends likely to dominate Africa's economic powerhouse for the next 20 years.
The conference, titled "Imagineering South Africa's Future to 2030", will look at the country's energy, the environment, education and economics sectors, and map a vision of South Africa in the year 2030.
Over 100 high-level ...
SA restaurant in food Oscars
South Africa’s La Colombe has been named the 12th best restaurant in the world, and the best restaurant in the Middle East and Africa, in the 2010 edition of the prestigious S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, produced by the British Restaurant magazine.
The awards organisers said the restaurant “effortlessly combines Asian influences with a modern French style of cooking”. Based at the Constant ...
Schalk’s men storm on
The Crusaders have seldom been made to look as ordinary as they were by a Vodacom Stormers team that thumped them 42-14 in a crucial Super 14 match at Newlands on Friday night.
The match was billed as a mini final as the loser was going to face a massive task to remain on the mainline heading to the semi-finals, and a near full house turned up to cheer the Stormers on.
The fans were not disappointed. From ...
Breakthrough system to boost passport control
A new system that will facilitate the secure movement of tourists into and out of the country is in place for the FIFA World Cup.
The Department of Home Affairs has put in place a system - the Movement Control System (MCS) - that will act as an early warning for government agencies to track visitors with false passports and visas and even detect if a person is being sought by the police or Interpol.
Furth ...
Holiday Inn Rosebank set to open
Located next to The Zone shopping centre in the heart of the Rosebank business district to the north of downtown Johannesburg, the new 158-room Holiday Inn Rosebank opens for business on 7 May.
Managed by ISO Leisure and owned by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Holiday Inn Rosebank is conveniently situated for both business and leisure travellers, 30 minutes' drive from OR Tambo International Airp ...
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 spring time, and with a SA landscape display, you can also see a little bit of home!
2. Mayday Mayday – Emergency Services Party raising money for the Born ...
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 cultured oysters in Knysna, from surfer's paradise in Jeffreys Bay to wonder on the "Wild Coast".
A major attraction for tourists looking for a dose of cultur ...
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 been in the making since 2005 and is to be called the Wits Art Museum (WAM).
And where better to put it than in the university's cultural precinct on East ...
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 all work for unity, true reconciliation and cohesion."
Addressing thousands of people gathered at the Union Buildings in Pretoria for this year's Freedom ...
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 rigorous shaking as well.Lined up in the launch position at the swinging doors of last-chance saloon we have the Hurricanes and the Chiefs, who meet in Welli ...
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 hard-won right to vote. Since that fateful day, South Africans have had four free and fair national elections.
To mark the day thousands of South Africans a ...
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 $50,000 for his incredible ride on an enormous wave, which he paddled into during the Maverick’s Surf Contest at Half Moon Bay in Northern California, on Feb ...
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 on 10 May 1994 – the day Nelson Mandela became president, two weeks after the country's first democratic elections of 27 April 1994.
"Not as a symbol of a ...
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) programme.
The deal, announced by Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati and Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Maria Ntuli in Sandton this week, will see th ...
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 upscaled HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment plan, which was announced by President Jacob Zuma last December on World Aids Day.Zuma has said that every South A ...
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, less than 50-days away.
Although baggage pilferage has decreased dramatically since a crack-down by ACSA (Airports Company South Africa) and airlines in 2008 ...
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 projections on the economic impact of the 2010 Fifa World Cup™ make for encouraging reading.
"We have revised the figures post the worldwide recession and maj ...
