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WWF ramps up rhino safety with new anti-poaching campaign
WWF ramps up rhino safety with new anti-poaching campaign

2010-09-08

















SA has more than 80% of the world's rhino population, but 188 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year alone.

WWF, the global conservation organization, has launched a campaign to raise support and funding for ...

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South African DNA expert up for UK award
South African DNA expert up for UK award

2010-09-08

South African entrepreneur Avi Lasarow, whose company is managing the DNA identification process of the victims who died in the Johannesburg-to-Tripoli Libyan plane crash earlier this year, is a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the Year" category of the U ...

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Seychelles Tourism C.E.O. Meets With President Jacob Zuma Of South Africa
Seychelles Tourism C.E.O. Meets With President Jacob Zuma Of South Africa

2010-09-08

IMAGE: Alain St.Ange, the CEO of the Seychelles Tourism returned to Seychelles on Monday from a working visit to South Africa where he had the opportunity of meeting the South African President, Mr Jacob Zuma to discuss cooperation between Seychelles an ...

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How Much of Africa is above South Africa and 'Sub-Sahara'?
How Much of Africa is above South Africa and 'Sub-Sahara'?

2010-09-08

Typically when students study abroad, they go to the traditional European countries.

Thus, when I first told my friends and family I would be studying abroad in the West African nation of Ghana for the spring semester of 2010, they looked at me stunne ...

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NEW CABLES TIE WEST AFRICA CLOSER TO INTERNET
NEW CABLES TIE WEST AFRICA CLOSER TO INTERNET

2010-09-07

LAGOS, Nigeria — For a decade, West Africa’s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.

But this summer, a second cable snaked along the ...

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Another South African First:  Google's Street View Looks at Winelands
Another South African First: Google's Street View Looks at Winelands

2010-09-07

IMAGE: Winelands in the Boland, Western Cape are one of South Africa's most popular tourist destination.

Building on this year’s exciting Street View launch in June, Google will be adding a further 19 SA wineries to the most comprehensive database of ...

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Dick Norman - The Long Road to Becoming a Lifer

2010-09-07


IMAGE: Dick Norman, 39, along with Wesley Moodie, will play in the United States Open men's doubles quarterfinals. Photos By GREG BISHOP

Norman, from Belgium, saw those players and scoffed: “Man, do they have nothing else in life than tennis? They’ ...

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Holiday Focus on Mozambique
Holiday Focus on Mozambique

2010-09-07

Mozambique lies on the southeast coast of Africa and is a fine mixture of African, Arab and Portuguese culture, a blend that makes it one of the most exotic destinations on an African safari adventure.

This is one of the finest dive sites with coral r ...

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Foreign visitors surge in 2010
Foreign visitors surge in 2010

2010-09-06

IMAGE: The Drakensburg Mountains in Kwa-Zulu Natal are a big tourism drawcard.


Foreign visitors to South Africa had risen by more than 350 000 for the first four months of this year as compared to the same period in 2009, Tourism Minister Marthinus ...

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Dassiesfontein on the N2  -  If you visit just ONE Farm Stall ...
Dassiesfontein on the N2 - If you visit just ONE Farm Stall ...

2010-09-06

Dassiesfontein is a smorgasbord of THINGS. We’re talking room after room of this and that – from antique furniture through kitchen plates, clothing and shoes, to Victorian fireplaces.

The venue is a veritable collector’s dream of kitsch and paraphenal ...

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