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/ 9 November 2005
The inauguration of the southern hemisphere’s largest telescope on Thursday near a small South African town would be a milestone towards realising the country’s aim as a ”first-rate science” country, astronomers said this week. The Salt (Southern African Large Telescope) will give astronomers a first-rate glimpse of distant stars, galaxies and quasars.
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/ 5 September 2005
SA’s black winemakers are making huge strides as wine farm owners, but are still facing the challenge of expensive capital outlays.
Thabiso Mahowa is one of about seven million South Africans who live in squatter camps, deprived of basic services like clean water, proper sewerage, roads, and a house he can proudly call home. Now the country’s major economic centre, Johannesburg, is bracing itself for one of its biggest challenges since the demise of apartheid — to do away with the squatter camps, known as informal settlements, within three years.