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Nearly half of South African companies see opportunity in World Cup
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 21 hours ago
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Carol Read said the figure might be a lot higher in some parts of the economy. "Clearly there are some sectors that are more energy-dependent than others. Forty-one percent indicated they were considering opportunities on the African continent. A...
Tags: world cup, South African Press Association, KPMG, african companies, South Africa, Johannesburg, Business Finance, Statistical survey, Market research, Economy of South Africa
End of an era for Argentina's Afrikaners
Comodoro Rivadavia :: Argentina | 3 days ago
Credibility Once they lived here in their thousands, but now only a handful of Afrikaans-speaking Boers remain in the windswept Patagonian coastal town of Comodoro Rivadavia and its hinterland. Between 1903 and 1909, up to 800 Boer families trekked by ship to this...
Tags: South African Press Association, Argentina, Comodoro Rivadavia, Boers, Danie Botha, Dante Botha, Juan Kruger, Sapa, Schlebusch, Tony Leon, Second Boer War, Languages of South Africa, Afrikaner, Boer, Afrikaans, Biltong, Great Trek
Els to ask for acquittal
Pretoria :: South Africa | 14 days ago
Credibility Singer Jurie Els will on Monday apply for his discharge on three charges of molestation. When the State closed its case on Thursday, defence advocate Danie Dorfling told the High Court in Pretoria he would bring an application to have Els acquitted. Dorfling...
Tags: South African Press Association, Pretoria, South Africa, Klay, Law Crime, Entertainment Culture
SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge
Durban :: South Africa | 18 days ago
Credibility Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge. Police Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said Monday that no arrests have been made although four suspects were questioned and released.
Tags: Kavisha Seevnarain, Durban, South Africa, South African Press Association, South African media, Carjacking, Automated teller machine, Automation, Banks, Law Crime, Indian Ocean, Umkomaas KwaZulu-Natal, N2 road, Drakensberg, National Roads in South Africa, EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Bheki Cele, Umlazi, Pietermaritzburg, Netcare
Elephant dies of old age
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility The elephant cow that provoked an outcry from an animal rights group when it was spotted, apparently distressed and in pain, on an Mpumalanga game reserve's live webcam a fortnight ago, has died. "The elephant cow died yesterday [Sunday] afternoon of...
Tags: South African Press Association, Jackie Selebi, Glen Agliotti
‘Ministers insensitive’ - Outcry over bling cars intensifies
Springs :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility ANC deputy general secretary Thandi Modise has lambasted ministers who bought luxury vehicles in excess of R1million, saying they were insensitive to the fact that the country was in a recession and indifferent to the sufferings of the poor. Modise said...
Tags: South African Press Association, Thandi Modise, Blade Nzimande, african languages
Semenyas test results a shock
Cape Town :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility 56:01 News that teenage runner Caster Semenya has no womb or ovaries and has internal testes has sent the athletics world into a spin. Sydney's Daily Telegraph has obtained leaked medical test results taken after the athlete took out the gold medal...
Tags: Caster Semenya, Berlin, South African Press Association, female sexual, Daily Telegraph, Sydney
Municipal workers call off strike
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 4 months ago
Credibility The five-day strike by South Africa's municipal workers is over, the South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) said on Friday. "It's over ... we signed an agreement this [Friday] afternoon,"...
Tags: municipality workers, South African Press Association, african municipality, government association, municipality strike, local government, Imatu, general secretary, independent municipality, african local
Doctors' strike hits KZN, Free State hospitals
Durban :: South Africa | 5 months ago
Credibility Some KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Free State hospitals were shut down on Tuesday as doctors took to the streets in protest over delays in implementing a new salary scale, the South African Registrars' Association (Sara) said. "Only hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal...
Tags: South African Press Association, revised offer, Free State
Dozens of whales beached in South Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | 6 months ago
Credibility South Africa (AP) Authorities are trying to rescue dozens of whales beached near the southern tip of South Africa. National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon says about 55 pilot whales beached early Saturday and are swimming back to shore...
Tags: South African Press Association, whale beaching, Kommetjie Beach, pilot whale, sea rescued, rescued institute, Craig Lambinon, Kommetjie Lighthouse, National Sea Rescue Institute, whale carcasses
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