SA is finding all kinds of ways to express pride about District 9, a locally produced film that has turned into a blockbuster in the US.
South Africa’s favourite tourist souvenirs are proving a nightmare for airlines. Every evening, when holidaymakers gather at Johannesburg International airport to check in for the night flights home, the struggle begins anew. With dogged determination passengers try to bring wooden giraffes on board that are almost six-foot tall — as hand luggage, off course!
Screen idol Brad Pitt was almost in tears when he visited a hospital in Durban in May to be confronted with the young victims of HIV/Aids. Pitt was experiencing for the first time the circumstances under which millions of children on the continent live and often die.
White beaches, blue skies, waving palm fronds, coloured fish — Quilalea could be any South Sea Island which Europeans dream of as they ponder another day with bad weather.