At last! A South African tour operator has taken the initiative provided by Tourism Month and has come up with a fantastic range of affordable holiday packages.
The fragile peace process between arch-rivals India and Pakistan appears to have survived the blow dealt by the Mumbai car bombings that claimed 52 lives, analysts said on Thursday. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s speech in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday had probably rescued the peace initiative.
The Independent Electoral Commission has set aside the weekend of November 8 and 9 for voters to register for the 2004 elections. The commission is faced with the challenge of getting young voters interested, with only 1% of those aged 18 to 19 on the voters’ roll.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has renewed calls for President Thabo Mbeki to break his silence over the furore surrounding Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19707">ANC denies arms involvement</a>
Statistics suggest that injections with dirty needles are responsible for 20-million hepatitis B infections and 260 000 HIV infections worldwide every year, Medinfo said on Thursday.
Armscor chairperson Fani Titi and CEO Sipho Thomo have both lamented the corporation’s embattled financial position in its latest annual report, tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The corporation is struggling to achieve its goals and has suffered staff losses.
Two lucky readers can sample the understated luxury of the five-star Coach House hotel at Agatha, near Tzaneen, courtesy of this, our first "great escape" competition.
It is no secret that South African tourism is booming. In 2002 our country emerged as the best performing tourist destination in the world, attracting 6,4-million tourists. Overseas arrivals were up a massive 20,1%, with a healthy 11,1% increase in total foreign arrivals for 2001.
Ah, Italy! It all began with a birthday wish: to introduce the family to the Tuscany we had fallen in love with five years before. Pat Schwartz took her family to Tuscany and found a personal paradise, far from the madding crowd.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry should have been a tour operator. Imagine it, packing your suitcase and boarding the starship <i>Enterprise</i>, zooming at warp eight to your chosen destination and beaming down, baggage and all, to your well-earned holiday … No long-haul flights, no lengthy check-in queues, just speed and efficiency.