| | | Economic empowerment for SA women Economic empowerment for South African women will be the focal point of Women's Month 2011, Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana said on unveiling this year's programme. » |
| Plans to speed up job creation The South African government has unveiled a series of measures to help the country speed up job creation, following the release of figures showing that unemployment rose from 25 to 25.7 percent in the second quarter. »
| South Africa's high-speed rail link opens The long awaited, multi-billion rand high-speed rail link between Johannesburg and Pretoria opens this week, with expectations that it will take about 20 percent of traffic off the congested highways between South Africa's legislative and commercial capitals. »
| Back Team SA on Magnificent Fridays! Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has called on South Africans to get behind the Springboks ahead of the World Cup, and the athletes preparing for the All Africa Games, by flying the flag on Magnificent Fridays. »
| South Africa reaches 50-million South Africa's population has passed the 50-million mark, according to Statistics SA's mid-year estimate for 2011, which puts the country's population at 50.59-million. »
| More than just another BRIC in the wall South Africa is set to benefit in the next 10 to 15 years from major investment in infrastructure and manufacturing from the BRICS grouping Brazil, Russia, India, China and now SA write John Battersby and Yingni Lu. »
| India-Africa network to boost trade The India-Africa Business Network, recently launched at the Gordon Institute of Business in Johannesburg, is set to boost trade and open new business and investment channels between India and South Africa. »
| Limpopo's new standards of success Sustaining a successful business through diversification and creativity was the focus of the recent Brand South Africa stakeholder summit in Polokwane, Limpopo province. »
| Coca-Cola opens 'green' bottling plant Coca-Cola South Africa has opened a new state-of-the-art plant to bottle Valpré Spring Water in Heidelberg, south-east of Johannesburg, introducing the environmentally friendly PlantBottle packaging to the African market for the first time. »
| Favourable World Cup draw for Bafana Bafana Bafana should be well satisfied after the preliminary draw for the 2014 Fifa World Cup, which took place in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, threw up a favourable qualifying group. »
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