No image available
/ 2 December 2003
Le Quartier Français, based in Franschhoek in the winelands, has taken the highest honours in <i>Wine Magazine’s Top 100 Restaurants in South Africa 2004</i>, winning first place for the best chef in South Africa and first for the best service in South Africa.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
Shares in cellular network operator MTN Group touched a new three-year high on Tuesday as the market warmed to the group’s better-than-expected results released after the close on Monday.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
Okay. I’m not ashamed to admit it. When it comes to cameras, I am a real blonde. I’m generally lucky if I get two or three shots out of 24 to come out with the subject in the frame and in focus. Your holiday and travel snaps are made easy with the latest in digital cameras, even if, writes Sharon van Wyk, you are completely blonde.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
The World Health Organisation and UNAids have launched a new initiative to provide anti-retrovirals to three million people by the end of 2005. The "3 by 5" campaign will focus on five areas, including global leadership in the fight against Aids and "sustained country support" for the therapy.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
BMI-TechKnowledge has announced the publication of its South African Internet Services report, which has highlighted a stable and mature internet market. Analyst Iain Machanick said that industry consolidation has meant that service providers’ success will be determined by the value and service offering to the end users.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
Microsoft Corporation has been tarred as an illegal monopoly and a copycat. Its flagship Windows operating system gets knocked for its security holes and user-unfriendly quirks. So what is the world’s dominant software company doing? Betting billions that its next generation of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will be the breakthrough technology that quiets its critics.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has raised the death toll from a military plane crash in the central part of the country to 33, including 13 people on the ground who were killed when the Antonov 26 plane plowed into a crowded market at the end of a runway.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
The Zimbabwe government plans to amend land laws to allow it to confiscate more land from white farmers, according to details of an amended Bill published by the state-run Herald on Monday. A major change would be the scrapping of a requirement that a preliminary notice of acquisition by the government should be served on the farm owner.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
Price stability remains a core objective, South African Reserve Bank (SARB) governor Tito Mboweni said in a speech at the annual heads of foreign missions dinner on Monday evening. "However, the South African economy will always be affected considerably by developments in the rest of the world," he said.
No image available
/ 2 December 2003
A group of South African rafters is preparing for the first ever trip to navigate the length of the world’s longest river from source to sea, 142 years after British explorer John Speke identified the source of the Nile. They are attempting to negotiate a formidable 6 690km stretch of water.