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The second Automotive Incubation Centre has opened in the capital city, Tshwane. It will establish and nurture small- and medium-sized enterprises that can supply components to Nissan South Africa's production line. It is expected to bring economic transformation.

Land tenure reform in South Africa, including the issues of tenure insecurity in commercial farming areas and tenure challenges in communal areas, will take centre stage at a three-day national Land Tenure Summit in Johannesburg next week.

Thirty-year-old Sibusiso Bhengu, an offender serving his sentence at Leeuwkop Correctional Centre in Johannesburg, says he is glad he had an opportunity to interact with the outside world on Mandela Day.

Mobile telecommunications company MTN has unveiled Africa's first concentrating solar cooling system - complete with 242 sun-tracking solar mirrors - for the energy-hungry data centres at its Johannesburg head office.

Politicians showed off their party colours at the national Results Operations Centre in Pretoria on Thursday morning as the focus shifted from voting to counting in South Africa's fifth democratic elections. Over 35% of votes had been counted by 9am, just 12 hours after polling stations closed at 9pm on Wednesday.

The message at the final Freedom Fridays celebration held at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on 25 January was that our freedom did not come for free and should be acknowledged by displaying our patriotism. Revellers at the event wore the colours of the national flag to show just how proud they were to be born South African. 

Teenagers feeling depressed or suicidal can now reach out for help by SMS. Skilled counsellors from the South African Depression and Anxiety Group will be on hand with help, information and practical advice - and teens in crisis will never get a "busy" signal.

British singer/songwriter Elton John has opened a care centre in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg that runs life skills projects for orphaned, abused and neglected children.