In celebration of former president Nelson Mandela’s 85th birthday on Friday, he was handed a book highlighting his speeches and tributes paid to him by world leaders.
Mindset Network, a multimedia satellite TV network was launched in Johannesburg on Wednesday, with corporate support valued at R225-million. Mindset Network is a non-profit organisation which will address the education challenges which face South Africa including schooling, health and entrepreneurship.
Readers of the US Travel & Leisure magazine have voted the Londolozi game reserve in the Sabi Sands Reserve as the top hotel in Africa and the Middle East and top small hotel in the world.
South Africa’s semi-privatised telephone utility Telkom is facilitating a quest for a world record for the most birthday wishes ever received by an individual on one day.
The South African government is likely to miss the deadline of August 1 for the publication of the second draft of the Royalty Bill, which deals with mining royalties, said Webber Wentzel Bowens lawyer Peter Leon on Wednesday.
Soldiers in the tiny west African nation of Sao Tome and Principe seized power yesterday in a pre-dawn coup which appears to be linked to a scramble for oil revenue.
British astronomers have solved one of the darker riddles of the universe – the culprit behind the gargantuan clouds of cosmic dust.
The guidelines established by the US authorities in Guantanamo Bay may make it impossible for the Britons facing military tribunals to get civilian lawyers without direct British government intervention, it emerged yesterday.
The universe is fixated on Nelson Mandela because he is a man of the future and not the past.
Sars, the virus which emerged in China in February and spread to 32 countries, killing more than 800 people, might re-emerge in the autumn, say health experts.