"This year’s fashion week will be different," says Luke Radlott, an assistant designer for Black Coffee, talking about the 11th annual Sanlam South African Fashion Week that started on Wednesday. The yearly fashion spectacular runs until Saturday at Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre.
Keeping the environment clean and green is everyone’s responsibility, but for the residents of Alexandra extension 7, north of Johannesburg, it comes with a reward: a government initiative is not only bringing trees and flowers to the dusty streets, but also offering monthly prizes for residents who try out their gardening skills.
The South African Constitution allows for the freedom of expression and for ordinary citizens’ participation in government by raising concerns in the form of petitions and protest marches. However, protests are being "censored" by government authorities, says the Freedom of Expression Network.
Many urban cellular network masts in South Africa are situated in areas lush with vegetation, which is why a number of them are dressed up as trees. It is not known exactly how many antenna masts are disguised in this way. Now a master’s student in digital arts has started a project to calculate the relationship between technology and society.
An internal investigation has been completed into the conduct of South African Police Service officers at an accident scene near King William’s Town earlier this month where a truck carrying 211 pigs had overturned. Onlookers apparently stormed the truck and killed the pigs — of which some were still alive — for meat.
A new energy-saving initiative, targeting Johannesburg businesses and homes, has begun. Launched by Talk Radio 702 presenter Jenny Crwys-Williams, the Power to the People campaign urges Johannesburg residents to save energy and protect the environment.
Nutrition is a supportive measure in dealing with infections such as HIV/Aids and tuberculosis (TB), meaning neither food nor food supplements are alternatives to drug therapy in treating people living with Aids, says a report released on Wednesday by the Academy of Science in South Africa (Assaf).
When Cleopatra Taona went to the Randfontein testing centre for her driver’s-licence test at the beginning of June this year, she failed. If that was not a daunting enough experience, she has since been unable to make a second appointment. ”I called the GP [Gauteng] call centre to get a new date, whereupon I was told that I would be put on a waiting list as it was fully booked for the next two months. But I was assured I would get a date by July,” she says.
As if it weren’t bad enough that fans of the South African version of Survivor already had to give up one evening a week for their reality fix, they now have even more to look forward to on the web. Exclusive ”webisodes” created for the internet are being produced for the second season of Survivor.
Students and medical staff at the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital say they feel unsafe — and that administrators need to do more to improve safety at the world’s biggest hospital. On July 30, a student was raped at the hospital. She had been on her way to the blood bank at about 7pm when two men approached her and one of them raped her.