Hila Bouzaglou
Guest Author
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/ 31 January 2007

SA dominates World Travel Awards nominations

Guests at The Saxon hotel, in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, can listen to music while under water in the pool. It’s one of the tiny details — along with the koi ponds surrounding the luxury suites, the selection of biltong served with every cocktail and the stone water feature crisply running through the spa — that makes this hotel one of the best on the continent.

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/ 30 January 2007

From suburb to runway

Next door to Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport is Bonaero Park, born around 1967 — mainly to house the employees of arms manufacturer Denel. If the Airports Company South Africa has its way, the suburb of roughly 800 houses will be demolished by 2015 to enable the airport to extend its old runways and build two new ones.

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/ 24 January 2007

I was not drunk, says McBride

Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride on Wednesday denied being drunk on the night he rolled his car in late December last year. McBride had left a metro year-end function after he played a game of football and was "not feeling well". But he said he has no "personal recollection" from the time he left the function.

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/ 24 January 2007

Alcohol: A death sentence in a bottle?

Alcohol brands are ubiquitous in South Africa. A red castle rimmed in gold, for example, is splashed across cricket pitches and stitched on to players’ uniforms. It represents one of South Africa’s most popular beers. But does the country need regulations to restrict alcohol advertisements?

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/ 24 January 2007

Where there’s smoke, there are fines

Self-extinguishing cigarettes, hefty fines and pictures of rotting lungs are among the ways in which the Department of Health plans to beef up South Africa’s tobacco-control laws, which are currently riddled with loopholes. Suggestions to change the existing Tobacco Amendment Bill will be made to Parliament’s health committee at public hearings in Cape Town this week.

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/ 17 January 2007

Reuters chief executive criticises Telkom

Telkom came under fire this week after international news agency Reuters criticised the company for high telecommunications prices and low-quality bandwidth. Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer told <i>Business Day</i> newspaper that while his company had been expanding in countries such as India, he was reluctant to do the same thing in South Africa.

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/ 16 January 2007

Illegal dumping raises concerns in Jo’burg

More than 3 500kg of toxic waste has been illegally dumped in a landfill site in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg, since late December. Working in the scorching heat at the Walkerville de Deur landfill site on Tuesday, the IFRT Spill Response team had to plough through metres of stinking garbage to locate two bags, weighing about 50kg each.

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/ 9 January 2007

Was McBride going nowhere fast?

The apparent "emergency" in Eden Park to which Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride was rushing before he rolled his car in December did not exist, according to media reports on Tuesday. Meanwhile, police have confirmed they will investigate whether McBride was drunk at the time of the accident.