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With Jacob Zuma at the helm, South Africa is playing a growing role in global affairs even as it continues to tackle the apartheid legacy of poverty and inequality at home. Scott MacLeod, managing editor of the Cairo Review, interviews President Zuma.

The rise of developing countries, exemplified by the BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is changing the old way of doing business, and calls for a "reformatting" of the investor mindset, argues South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

The International Olympic Committee opened its 123rd Session in Durban with a vibrant ceremony at the city's Playhouse on Tuesday night, with South African President Jacob Zuma in attendance.

A free trade area among regions in Southern and Eastern Africa will be developed in the next three years to boost economic integration between at least 26 nations on the continent.
• New bridge to boost African trade

With the 2010 Fifa World Cup less than two years away, stakeholders are working on ways to shape a positive image of South Africa and the continent as a whole.

Cape Town was voted the top city in Africa and the Middle East and the eighth best city in the world in the 2006 Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice survey, while two lodges in South Africa's Singita Private Game Reserve were together rated the second best resort in the world.