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Publish Date: 21 October 2009 : 09:46AM
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has become the first university from Africa to make the top 150 on The Times Higher Educations-QS World University Rankings. UCT, the oldest university in South Africa, tied for 146 with the Humboldt University of Berlin...
Publish Date: 20 October 2009 : 04:10PM
The name of Mpumalanga's capital city is to be changed from Nelspruit to Mbombela. Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana published in the government gazette a list of 42 geographical name changes which she had approved between 28 July and 2 September...
Publish Date: 01 September 2009 : 02:49PM
I tend to agree with the ANC when they say the granting by Canada of a refugee status to South African citizen Brandon Huntley on the grounds that Africans would persecute him, is racist. The ruling party slammed Canada for granting Capetonian Brandon...
Publish Date: 19 August 2009 : 09:08AM
One of the politicians I have met with a chip on her shoulder the size of Carl Niehaus's dept is ANC spokeswoman Jessie Duarte. It seems this diminutive, but ill-tempered, lady has a bone to pick with anybody who does not sing to her tune. Her latest...
Publish Date: 07 August 2009 : 04:24PM
Only women in the upper echelons of society enjoy the rights that the Equality Act brought to the new South Africa, Independent Democrats president Patricia de Lille said about South African Women's Day which is being commemorated on Sunday, August...
Publish Date: 07 July 2009 : 11:52AM
Now here's something insightful from a man who has had his fare (fair?) share of run-inns with the law. President Jacob Zuma has said judges' independence will not be compromised, even if South Africa's judiciary is reformed. You will remember...
Publish Date: 18 June 2009 : 12:51PM
FIFA will give free tickets to South African fans for the Confederations Cup, after poor attendances for the opening matches. According to a report on SportBusinessInternational.com FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot said, "there will be a number of...
Publish Date: 18 June 2009 : 08:30AM
South Africa's new agriculture minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said the government of Africa's biggest maize producer would not seize white farms to redistribute it to blacks because this would harm South Africa's economy. SA – The Good News...
Publish Date: 10 June 2009 : 01:41PM
The football stadium in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth has been the first newly-built 2010 World Cup ground to be officially opened, a year before the start of the tournament in South Africa. The 48,000-seater Nelson Mandela Bay stadium will host...
Publish Date: 03 June 2009 : 12:39PM
President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to unite in a partnership, working together with government to do more to realise the vision of a better and more prosperous nation. Government communications agency BauNews reports Zuma said in his maiden...