Archive for April, 2010

South Africa has launched a new system, capable of scanning 65 security features in a passport in less than 15 seconds, to facilitate quicker, safer passage of tourists in and out of the country.

South Africa’s leading thinkers and academics will descend on Cape Town on 6 and 7 May to look at future trends likely to dominate Africa’s economic powerhouse for the next 20 years.

Airports Company South Africa has ordered two temporary terminals from Siemens for use at the airports in Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein during the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

In 2006, Australian soccer fan Steven Barnes camped in Munich for the Fifa World Cup, and in 2010 he will be one of over a thousand Australian soccer lovers who will call Durban’s Sahara Stadium home.

Zambia's annual inflation rate declined to 9.2% following a reduction in food prices and accommodation.

According to the Central Statistics Office, inflation has slowed downed from 10.2% in March to 9.2% in April.

CSO Director Efreda Chulu said in a news release that the food-inflation rate dropped to 7.3% in the month from 9% previously announced.
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South Africa hosts the 11th Fortune/TIME/CNN Global Forum, which sees global leaders and CEOs of multinational companies gathering to focus on substantive issues and opportunities in the developing world, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 26 to 28 June.

South Africa remains committed to regional economic integration in Africa and will continue to promote free trade on the continent, says International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashaba.

Visitors attending this year’s Oyster, Wine & Food Festival, taking place at Johannesburg’s Brightwater Commons this weekend, can look forward to some 25 000 fresh oysters, an array of fine wines and various mouth-watering oyster dishes.

Located next to The Zone shopping centre in the heart of the Rosebank business district to the north of downtown Johannesburg, the new 158-room Holiday Inn Rosebank opens for business on 7 May.

A myriad of festivities awaits football fans visiting South Africa’s Eastern Cape for the 2010 Fifa World Cup. The province will be alight with a fever of festivals, from culture in Grahamstown to cultured oysters in Knysna, from surfer’s paradise in Jeffreys Bay to wonder on the “Wild Coast”.