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Wild Coast needs a one-stop tourism shop

The communities of the Wild Coast drink from polluted waterholes shared with dogs and livestock. There are no toilets. Medical facilities are rare.

Free ride comes to an end

Passengers travelling from areas outside the CBD will now pay two fares, one into the CBD and another for the journey onwards to suburbs such as Bryan

Licence demerits piloted

Tshwane motorists need to obey the traffic laws or they could find themselves losing their licences with the new demerit project.

Neotel comes to the party

South Africa’s second network operator is taking on Telkom in the broadband space

Get going with Rea Vaya

Mugged at a friendly petrol bowser recently? Wasting the precious stuff while keeping your car idling in gridlock? Well, Rea Vaya (we are going), Jo’burg’s new bus expressway, is…

Where Absa’s wall is just a foot away

When you think Facebook you think friends, poking, messaging, writing on walls, uploading pictures and joining groups of people who share a common interest. You do not think…

Park opening highlights need to protect environment

Laughing excitedly, dozens of children on Tuesday filled a new park in Bramfischerville, Soweto, which was opened by Johannesburg City Parks and the district municipality to mark…

FBJ chief rubbishes SAHRC findings

Abbey Makoe, chairperson of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ), has lashed out at a South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) finding regarding a controversial FBJ meeting…

By bus, train or internet …

Zimbabweans in the diaspora are crucial to preventing a meltdown of Zimbabwe’s economy. It is estimated that more than US$1-billion finds its way into Zimbabwe each year, sent…

Tourist guides tap rich vein in Gauteng

Tourist guides from across Gauteng gathered under a hot marquee for the International Tourist Guides’ Day at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg last week — and, for a change,…

Dancing in the dark

Black outs could put the entertainment industry into the red, writes Zahira Kharsany.

Madagascar ups its game in battle against malaria

"Life is leaking out of Madagascar. The gross deforestation of the island has left brown rivers of sand flowing towards the sea, and it has been devastated by gem mining and a…

Journalist Margaret Legum passes away

Margaret Legum, best known for her call to sanction apartheid South Africa, died in Cape Town at the age of 74 on Thursday. She died of complications arising from a…

‘SA needs to respect justice and the law’

Crime and violence are a way of life in South Africa and, according to David Bruce of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, respect for justice and the law…

No holds barred at SA’s first Sexpo

Meet Max, the Stud Butler. He’s an oversized, flesh-coloured ventriloquist’s dummy with a bow tie and hard-on — the world’s first hands-free sex toy, available at South Africa’s…

SA blogs on the rise

Something is stirring in the South African blogosphere, says electronic-media analyst Arthur Goldstuck. This year will probably be remembered as a time when blogs came of age,…