Ian Macdonald and his team at South Africa: The Good News
highlight the positive developments in South Africa.
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Publish Date: 07 October 2009 : 03:03PM
South Africans are growing more and more optimistic about the new South Africa, market research company TNS Research Surveys has found. According to a report by SA – The Good News, the survey of 2000 adults done in June 2009 showed 73 per cent agreed...
Publish Date: 25 September 2009 : 03:00PM
By Justin Foxton* It is a real thrill for me to stand in front of people from all walks of life and of all ages, and talk about stuff that begins the process of eroding fear and creating safety. Facts drop like seeds of hope causing panic and paranoia...
Publish Date: 24 September 2009 : 10:48AM
Crime against children dropped by 9.3 per cent last year, making this one of the few areas where police achieved their crime reduction target, according to statistics released by the South African Police Service. SA – The Good News quotes a South...
Publish Date: 16 September 2009 : 03:30PM
The long term spin-offs of the 2010 World Cup will remain despite the global financial crisis and an economic recession locally, the local organising committee said in Johannesburg on Monday. South Africa – The Good News quotes Local Organising...
Publish Date: 04 September 2009 : 04:27PM
Canada is a very large place, seriously in the market for more people. It was not, however, aching for the company of Brandon Carl Huntley, 31, late of Mowbray, a Cape Town suburb. He was in the country illegally. His resume, according to newspaper accounts...
Publish Date: 04 September 2009 : 12:33PM
South Africans' living conditions are steadily improving, according to Statistics South Africa's latest General Household Survey, which registered increases in school attendance, satisfaction with health services, and ownership of houses, televisions...
Publish Date: 26 August 2009 : 08:57AM
After smiling at the massive crowd that welcomed her at the OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa's 800m gold medalist Caster Semenya shyly spoke into the microphone and said: "Hi everybody." SA – The Good News quoted a South...
Publish Date: 21 August 2009 : 04:16PM
Caster Semenya's powerful run on Wednesday night should have been celebrated on a similar level as Usain Bolt's heroics this week. Instead the world was fixated on allegations and questions about her gender. She made the headlines alright, but...
Publish Date: 06 July 2009 : 10:36AM
In among all the concerns of whether South Africa would be able to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup and all the talk about Plan Bs and Cs, there has been one constant worry: whether the national soccer team would be able to make the grade. It is crucial to...
Publish Date: 19 June 2009 : 02:44PM
The vuvuzela has leapt from the soccer stadiums of South Africa and into the world's headlines this week as the European media, individual soccer stars and certain sections of the South African public have objected to the noise made by the iconic...