Pretoria – Global financial challenges are expected to top the agenda of a G20 ministerial meeting, in which South Africa will participate.
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SA to participate in G20 ministerial meeting
February 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Enrolments in sciences, engineering up
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Cape Town – The Department of Higher Education and Training says the number of first year students taking up studies in sciences and engineering at universities is on the rise. A total of 179 793 students are expected to study in these fields in 2012, up by 6.8 percent from last year’s projection of [...]
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MTB hit by Antelope
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This is an absolutely incredible video and it is the first time I have seen it. It took place during the MTB race at Albert Falls Dam. The mountain biker is Evan van der Spuy of Team Jeep South Africa and he literally gets taken out by an antelope or Red Hartebees depending which side [...]
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Riots in Athens ahead of debt vote
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Athens – Riots erupted across central Athens on Sunday night shortly before a parliamentary vote on a vital international aid deal to avoid a Greek…
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Time Running Out To Solve Energy Crisis
February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fuel Poverty levels could cover 50 per cent of the population within five years and 75 per cent within a decade if a properly co-ordinated energy policy is not developed, Architect and television presenter Duncan Stewart told the Energy Action conference in Dublin Castle. He also questioned if the €400 million spent each year of [...]
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Massive infrastructure spend
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Cape Town – South Africa will spend billions of rands over the coming years on new infrastructure, with the government to focus on building rail, road, and economic links in five regions in the country and building new universities and refurbishing hospitals, President Jacob Zuma said in his State of the Nation Address this evening. [...]
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Implementation should be at core
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address should focus on implementation policies and programmes that have been agreed to,…
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SA will not nationalise mines
February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Cape Town – Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has reiterated that South Africa would not nationalise its mines. Shabangu was at the critical African Mining Indaba on Tuesday, where she gave a keynote address. The Indaba is regarded as the world’s largest mining investment conference and Africa’s biggest mining event. Shabangu said that in the [...]
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PetroSA funds schools programme
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pretoria – PetroSA is to fund an eco-schools programme aimed at encouraging environmental responsibility among the youth to the tune of R4.5 million. “We understand the need to preserve our environment for future generations. The beauty of the programme lies in the fact that it exposes young people to the importance of responsible environmental custodianship,” [...]
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Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The many fundraising initiatives by House of Fraser in support of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) in recent months have lead to the formation of a new scholarship at the Institute, ‘The Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship’. Over the last eighteen months House of Fraser raised an incredible €25,000 for the breast cancer charity [...]
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