Archive for March, 2010

Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor believes South Africa has a strong chance of winning its bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a multi-billion rand international radio telescope that will be between 50 and 100 times more sensitive than any such instrument ever built.

The Eastern Cape housing department is piloting an innovative housing voucher system that enables beneficiaries to claim subsidies to buy building materials to build their own homes, in a bid to speed up housing delivery in poorer rural communities.

Martial arts fans gathered at Cape town’s Grand West Casino recently for the African Muay Thai Qualifier and Mixed Martial Arts Fight Night, where two African champions were selected to represent the continent at the first SportAccord Combat Games in Beijing, China in August-September 2010.

Competition in South Africa’s “mobile money” space is heating up, with Nedbank and mobile operator Vodacom teaming up to launch M-PESA, a solution that enables person-to-person money transfers via mobile phone – even between people without bank accounts.

The South African Defence Force’s Military Skills Development Programme is injecting new blood into the SANDF and playing a valuable role in addressing the skills shortage in the country, says Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.

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Standard Chartered Bank has been named Best Emerging Market Bank in Africa in Global Finance magazine's annual awards. This is the second consecutive year that the bank topped the tables with Global Finance.

Additionally, Standard Chartered Bank also won ‘Best Emerging Market Bank’ in Botswana (for the fifth consecutive year); in Zambia…

Football Fridays, the inspirational campaign to get South Africans united behind the 2010 Fifa World Cup effort, has gone large with an exciting, resource-packed new website of its own. Visit www.footballfridays.info – and find out how you can play for Team SA!

South Africa is to spend R240-million on a new weather radar network, incorporating 12 new Doppler radars, that will yield better prediction of severe weather, wind and dust movement across South Africa and some of its neighbouring countries.