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/ 2 September 2008
The shiny new international arrivals hall at OR Tambo International Airport was waiting to receive the first passengers on Wednesday morning.
Digital television will add to the thrills of the World Cup in South Africa, but will poor households be able to afford the R700 required to switch?
An estimated 10 000 people travelled to Northam in the Limpopo province this past weekend for the 14th edition of the Oppikoppi music festival.
SA banks have not been discouraged by the ongoing spate of bombings of ATMs and will continue to provide financial services in remote areas.
The United Nations is not about to take any drastic steps to move refugees from xenophobic attacks to other countries, reports Imke van Hoorn.
Extreme xenophobic violence has left thousands of people in Johannesburg homeless, their houses demolished and burned. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> speaks to a Congolese father who returns to his family home, which was plundered by an angry mob just more than a week ago.
Creating the most expensive dish in the country to help the poor sounds like a contradiction, but it is not. By making 10 exclusive little "Sexy Duck and Jozi Bling" pies and auctioning them online, the organisers of this year’s Jo’burg Wine Show want to raise funds for children from impoverished communities.
"We want to show that South Africa’s textile is definitely capable to stand on its own and that we don’t need to import cloth … We make people aware that South Africa has talent," says Eran Eyal, one of the designers behind Springleap, an innovative South African online retail outlet launched this month.
An estimated three to five million refugees have fled to South Africa in recent years, where they are anxiously waiting the results of their home country’s presidential poll. The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> spoke to several refugees about their plans for the future, depending on the full election outcome.