The Spring Art Tour this weekend gives SA art lovers the rare opportunity to view 27 original bronze sculptures by French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
AfriForum has started a campaign to boycott Nestlé products in response to news that the company is buying milk from a farm owned by Grace Mugabe.
The Spring Art Tour, new on SA’s visual arts calendar, kicks off in Cape Town and Stellenbosch on Thursday with exhibitions, talkshops and walkabouts.
Engineers in Japan say they are a step closer to developing technology they hope will cut the risk of car crashes — by mimicking behaviour of fish.
The seasonally adjusted Kagiso Purchasing Managers Index for September showed a huge increase of 8,7 index points.
Heavy fighting broke out on Thursday between rival Islamist factions in the Somali port of Kismayo, shattering a key alliance.
Nigeria’s independence anniversary is a sad reminder of "a dream deferred for too long", President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Thursday.
A 10-year-old British girl has been barred from trying to sell her granny on eBay.
The South African Treasury on Wednesday played down its role in tanked merger talks between MTN and India’s Bharti.
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/ 30 September 2009
Gabon’s opposition said on Tuesday it would boycott a vote recount from last month’s presidential election won by Omar Bongo Ondimba’s son.
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/ 30 September 2009
The <i>MaIl & Guardian</i>’s selection of three offerings in South African fiction.
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/ 30 September 2009
Twenty-five million more children will go hungry by the middle of this century as climate change leads to food shortages and soaring prices.
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/ 30 September 2009
The latest speculation over Apple’s plans for a larger touchscreen computer has gained currency thanks to its curiously specific details.
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/ 29 September 2009
A Chinese state-owned oil company is in talks with Nigeria to acquire stakes in some of the world’s richest oil blocks, a daily said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2009
The Philippines on Monday appealed for international aid as it struggled to cope with floods that killed at least 140 people.
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/ 28 September 2009
Google has tinkered with its famous search page logo yet again to mark its 11th year as a company — but has it got the date right?
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/ 28 September 2009
There are some interesting parallels between the global financial slump and the difficulties of BEE.
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/ 27 September 2009
Bill Gates may have beaten Steve Jobs to combining computer power and paper notebook convenience in a single lightweight device.
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/ 26 September 2009
The Dutch tourists came well prepared for the walking safari: strong shoes and sunscreen, backpacks and bottled water.
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/ 25 September 2009
The JSC has a mountain to climb to restore its reputation and all it has managed to do so far is limit further damage.
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/ 25 September 2009
Defence ministers from Uganda, Burundi and Somalia met on Friday in Kampala over the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
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/ 25 September 2009
Dotcom darling Twitter is close to securing a cash injection of $100m, with executives due to complete a surprise funding round.
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/ 24 September 2009
Farhana Ismail is talking about the imam who regards women’s presence in mosques as an anomaly.
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/ 23 September 2009
"What is it with black people and littering?" a white, male acquaintance asked me on a recent trip to Cape Town.
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/ 23 September 2009
Reopened in June this year, tens of millions have been spent in rebuilding the Delaire Estate, and, one must add, to great effect.
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/ 23 September 2009
South Africa’s producer price inflation stood at -4% year-on-year in August compared with -3,8% in July, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 September 2009
India’s cricketers at the Champions Trophy in South Africa are being encouraged by their coach to have sex to boost their on-field performance.
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/ 23 September 2009
A man was jailed for life on Tuesday for the murder and gang rape of Eudy Simelane, a lesbian South African international footballer.
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/ 23 September 2009
Moammar Gadaffi pitched his tent on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday, according to reports.
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/ 22 September 2009
Drunk Australian police officers were caught with their pants down when a motorist reported a "nudie run" at a traffic intersection.
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/ 21 September 2009
Zimbabwe teachers, who went on strike over salaries three weeks ago, returned to work on Monday after their union called off the boycott.
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/ 21 September 2009
Members of an Islamist sect that staged an uprising in Nigeria in which at least 800 people died are preparing further attacks, an official says.