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The 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa welcomed participating countries to Africa's first FIFA World Cup by hosting a symbolic flag-raising ceremony at its SAFA House headquarters in Johannesburg today, at which the flags of all 32 participating teams were raised.
South Africa's recovery from the global economic downturn appears to be lagging, says the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has announced the appointment of Thandiwe Sylvia January-Mclean as the new Chief Executive Officer of South African Tourism (SAT).
Residents of Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, will no longer have to face the real danger of being knocked down by speeding vehicles while crossing the busy N1 highway.
The last six teams to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, filling the last of the 32 positions for the tournament, are Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, France, Uruguay and Algeria.
Two hundred students will benefit from the Presidential Scholarship Programme and will undertake various degree programmes at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa starting next year.
In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
Metro Writer
Today's story on the dangers of the hubbly bubbly is the start of an initiative between The Star and Lifetalk to raise awareness on the numerous challenges that affect teenagers today.
ONCE tomorrow's deadline for taxpayers to file their personal income tax returns electronically passes, we hope the figures will once again show that South Africans are becoming more and more compliant in meeting their obligation to pay what is due to the state, honestly and on time.
SA's international standing took a knock after the country slipped a notch down on Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index, released this week.
LENDING on cars and furniture outstripped new mortgage lending for the first time in the first two quarters of this year as banks tightened mortgage lending and consumers held back from borrowing, a report from the National Credit Regulator, published today, shows.
THE Reserve Bank yesterday signalled that interest rates are likely to remain on hold in the near term, despite a slight increase in inflation forecasts for the next two years.
CARD use in the South African economy is an indicator of economic status and the National Credit Regulator's latest report shows it clearly. Poorer people use store cards and as they become wealthier switch to credit cards.
The National Treasury is grappling with how certificates issued by verification agencies to companies tendering for state contracts can be authenticated in a context where paying a bribe can secure the necessary documents.
Three of SA's most dominant young players will make the South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates next month their next major focus, with each seeking to cap a solid season with a victory in the second-oldest Open in golf.
IT WAS a weary Springbok team that limped to a narrow defeat against France in Toulouse last Friday.
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) recorded a loss of R8,3m after rising costs and a failure to secure sponsorship for the first division plunged the company into the red.
NATIONAL selection convener Peter Jooste yesterday rubbished suggestions that selecting a Springbok midweek side for the European tour did more harm than good to the Springboks' reputation, and said they had achieved what they had set out to do with the team.
LEGISLATIVE changes are in the pipeline to protect municipal managers - the accounting officers of councils - from political interference from within their councils.
THE Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry has bemoaned the lack of progress in Eskom's demand-side management programme , which has focused on encouraging electricity consumers to use less electricity.
The Cabinet has finally approved the introduction of no-fault-based road accident insurance, which will cut lawyers out of the system of compensation and cost the legal profession billions of rands in lost income.
SA - which derecognised its apartheid-era ally as a sovereign state and opened diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China in 1998 -- should be more flexible in its dealings with Taiwan, Lin said last month.
Cash flow problems were threatening the Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC's) capacity to pay staff next month, Parliament heard yesterday.
RETAIL sales fell more sharply than expected in September, showing that consumers are still under heavy pressure and damping hope that a recovery in SA's economy was under way.
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