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Sleepless soccer fans queue for WC tickets
Over-the-counter ticket sales for the Fifa World Cup started today with hundreds of soccer fans camped outside the Sandton Ticketing Centre since yesterday afternoon to get the best shot at their dream tickets.
At opening time a long queue reached down the street and around the corner from the centre, with loud music and South African flags adding to high levels of energy and excitement.
The Sandton Tick ...
SPOTLIGHT: What's on - week 14
The middle of April is here and spring is on its way. Many South Africans are stranded between getting back to the UK, some in Paris and many in Dubai and other parts of the world. For those who are watching this odd ash phenomenon ground air traffic from their couches and who are keen to get out and about this weekend, here are some SA related jols to go to in London:
1. The Afrikaans venue of Aardvark ce ...
SA moves to secure water supply
South Africa is shoring up the security of its water supply by ensuring the completion of seven major new water projects around the country by 2014, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said at a pre-budget briefing in Cape Town this week.
The seven new projects include the Mokolo augmentation project to supply water to the planned Medupi Power station in Lephalele in Limpopo province, and the Mooi-Mgeni ...
Local music to feature big during World Cup
Fifteen radio stations will broadcast only local and African music during the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup, the SABC announced on Wednesday.
The corporation's public broadcasting service division's 15 stations would play 85 percent local South African music, while 15 percent would be dedicated to music from around the Africancontinent, spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement.
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2010 World Cup tickets made easy
Half-a-million tickets for the 2010 Fifa World Cup™ go on sale from Wednesday, when the fifth and final round of ticket sales for the tournament kicks off, coinciding with the opening of ticketing centres in all nine South African host cities and the start of the over-the-counter sales.
Unveiling the official World Cup ticket at Maponya Mall in Soweto outside Johannesburg on Friday, Fifa secretary-general ...
Anti-racism group has South Africans seeing green
In a week where the spotlight has been on racial division and polarisation, a Facebook group to unite South Africans against racism has grown to more than 35 000 members in just five days.
Creator of the Green Skin Initiative, Christoff Smuts, says he started the group to calm people down following a turbulent week in South African politics, and to show that there are a lot of good people in the country. ...
Vote for SAMA Record of the Year
Twenty songs have been shortlisted for the Record of the Year as part of the 16th annual MTN South African Music Awards and now it is down to the SA public to vote for their Record of the Year. The awards take place this weekend at Sun City.
The selection process involved judging the songs according to a number of criteria that take into account airplay, and research and input from the judges and record co ...
Wits competition for children to name fossil
The University of the Witwatersrand is offering a prize of R75,000 to a South African child who can come up with a name for a 1.95 million-year-old fossil of a new hominid species unveiled in the Cradle of Humankind last week.
The university said on Monday that the prize was "a celebration" of the discovery of the juvenile skeleton by nine-year-old South African boy, Matthew Berger, in August 2008.
"In ce ...
SA wine sales overtake French wine in UK
South African wine sales in the UK have overtaken those of France for the first time, according to the latest figures from market analysts AC Nielsen.
South African wine sales grew 20% by volume between January 2009 and January 2010 to 12 270 000 nine-litre cases, compared to a decline in French wine sales of 12%, to 12 266 000 nine-litre cases; growth that also saw South Africa becoming the fourth-largest ...
SA teams move into the zone
The two top South African teams did what they had to do by showing they have the ability to bounce back, and their victories have put them in the zone for what is going to be a tense final month of the Vodacom Super 14 league season.
By recovering from their defeat to the Blues by winning with a bonus point against the Chiefs, the Bulls regained top position on the log, while the Stormers retained their pl ...
Official World Cup ticket unveiled
The official 2010 FIFA World Cup ticket was unveiled on 9 April 2010 by FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke and Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan at Maponya Mall in Soweto. The tickets will be made available to the general public on 15 April when the fifth and final ticketing sales phase kicks off. This will coincide with the opening of the FIFA World Cup ticketing centres in all nine host cities ...
Video of new species of hominid found in SA
This video shows the recent uncovering of what scientists are calling a new species of hominid at South Africa's Cradle of Humankind.
'New hominid species' at the Cradle
A South African-led team of scientists have announced the discovery of what they say is an entirely new hominid species at the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site outside Johannesburg, sparking fresh debate about the nature of our immediate ancestors. Lucille Davie reports.
I stare at the incomplete skeleton in the glass case - did this creature really walk this area almost 2-million years ago? Scienti ...
Adventure cooking show in Africa to launch on BBC
A new South African cooking adventure show is due to start on BBC on 18 April, called 'Cooked in Africa'.
South African food lover Justin Bonello, and friends, travelled around South Africa cooking simple but delicious meals in sometimes very surprising circumstances. There isn't always a kitchen to hand or even kitchen utensils but nothing fazes Justin, and his enthusiasm for all things food oozes from ev ...
Dreamfields video project captures soccer spirit
A team of young footballers who call themselves the A-Stars feature in a commercial filmed by Justin Bonello of BBC TV programme 'Cooked' in aid of the Dreamfields Project, which uses football for community development in South Africa.
Bonello got in touch with Dreamfields, shared his vision for a short film – and the crew from Cooked in Africa Films was soon headed for Nyanga township where, under the d ...
Stormers bounce back in Auckland
The Vodacom Stormers put the disappointment of their opening tour match behind them as they bounced back with an important 33-21 win over the Blues in Auckland on Saturday.
For the first time this season the Stormers conceded more than two tries, and they missed an astonishing number of tackles against a Blues team that was forced to play catch-up from an early stage of the match.
But with the pack laying ...
Eight SA artists at French festival in April
Seven South African musicians are performing at the French festival, Printemps Bourges 14-16 April along with Iggy & The Stooges, Delphic, Rodrigo y Gabriela and John Butler.
The South African artists are Tumi & the Volume, Gazelle, 340ml, Blk Jks, Nibs van der Spuy, Ben Sharpa and Playdoe / Sweat X.
Printemps de Bourges is a music festival started in 1977, held in the city of Bourges, south of P ...
SA among top 10 places to propose
Often ranked among the most beautiful places in the world, South Africa’s Garden Route and Winelands feature in a global Top Ten Places to Propose list compiled by travel specialists Mr & Mrs Smith (www.mrandmrssmith.com).
La Residence estate near Franschhoek has also been named one of the 101 Best Hotels in the World by the UK-based Tatler Travel Guide in 2009 and 2010. Mr & Mrs Smith praise the ...
Bafana Bafana off to Germany
Following a training tour of Brazil, after which Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira described himself as optimistic, a 25-man squad has been named for a World Cup training camp in Germany. They depart on 12 April and return on 30 April.
Parreira is aiming to build on the successes of the tour of Brazil, during which Bafana Bafana won five matches, drew three – including 1-1 against fellow World Cu ...
Bulls surge to Hamilton victory
The Vodacom Bulls returned to their winning ways with a powerful late surge to beat the Chiefs 33-19 in Hamilton.
In a tense, entertaining and open game, the defending champions secured the victory with a bonus point, and should have won by more if flyhalf Morne Steyn's boot was more accurate and a rough touch judge decision had gone their way.
It was the first time the Bulls had won in Hamilton in Super ...
