The Crags Primary School building project
Artist’s impression of the complete Assembly Hall for the Crags Primary School.
The owners of the Kurland Estate near Plettenberg Bay have established a Social Responsibility Program to benefit the underprivileged people in their area. The Programme is run on minimalist lines and overseen by their chairman.
One of the projects in the Programme, in addition to [...]
British and Irish Lions assured of top billing in South Africa
Lions’ roar: the memory of the Springboks’ 2-1 series defeat in 1997, celebrated here after the third Test by John Bentley, is still a painful one for South Africans Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Neil Manthorpe
Last Updated: 6:19PM BST 23 May 2009
South Africa is a very, very different country to the one the Lions last toured 12 [...]
Zuma should learn from Lula
By Richard Lapper
Financial Times
Published: May 24 2009 18:18 | Last updated: May 24 2009 18:18
“[He] is going to win the election . . . so the crisis is going to get much bigger and soon.”
It might have been written about Jacob Zuma, the new leader of South Africa since his victory in last month’s election.
But [...]
London calling: Snippets from an election
By Timothy Schultz
At 4 am London is dark and raining. While my taxi snakes me through the deserted streets a trainee Jesuit priest is camped outside South Africa House.
In the radio studio the BBC journalist asks why we vote, why it’s important and that hackneyed scribbler question: how does it make you feel?
Join the FIFA.com Club!
Zakumi, the Official Mascot of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
(Photo: Fifa.com)
It seems like ages ago that FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced that South Africa would host the 2010 FIFA World Cup; and since then an incredible amount of work has gone into ensuring that the concept becomes a reality. The dust is beginning [...]
See the world in aid of the NICRO UK Trust
From China to Northumberland, Iceland to Paris, Tanzania to South Africa… you can see it all with the NICRO UK Trust!
Whatever your New Years resolutions for 2009… Commit to getting fit, Be more adventurous or Do some charity work… you can do it all with the NICRO UK Trust Open Challenges! Experience exciting destinations, achieve [...]
Ian Goldin on the role diasporas can play
Ian Goldin, director of the 21st Century School at Oxford, spoke at GSA launch in London last month. Here are his speaking notes:
The South African Diaspora played a major role in overcoming apartheid and sustaining the anti-apartheid struggle, as well as providing support to the ANC and others in exile. The return of South Africans [...]
GSA Launches in London
“Once a South African, always a South African,” Moeketsi Mosola, Acting CEO of the International Marketing Council, told guests at a dinner to launch the GSA initiative in London organised by IMC’s UK country manager John Battersby and hosted by the SA High Commission. Here is SABC’s report:
For stills of the event,
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