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Brand South Africa is inviting young and old in North West to engage with the Play Your Part Cube in the latest edition of...

South Africans bring home Comrades gold

South African athletes won both the men's and the women's races in the 90th Comrades Marathon. Caroline Wostmann was the first female South African over the line in nearly two decades, crossing the line just 35 minutes after Rustenburg policeman Gift Kelehe won his first Comrades.

South Africa’s Chad le Clos is world’s best

In the week he was crowned as the world's best swimmer for 2014, South Africa's Olympic champion Chad le Clos set a new world record in the 100m butterfly - and won gold in the 200m freestyle - at the World Short-Course Swimming Championships in Doha.

Team South Africa totals 40 medals in Glasgow

Khotso Mokoena captured gold in the triple jump, and the country's lawn bowlers won their fifth title, to lift South Africa to seventh in the overall standings at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on the weekend.

Team SA scoops four more golds in Glasgow

South Africa added four more golds to the country's medals tally at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday as lawn bowls delivered a third title - and the country's first black bowls medallist in an international competition.

Five golds as Team South Africa climbs medal table

South Africa claimed five gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on the weekend - in lawn bowls, judo, swimming and sevens rugby. With five silvers and eight bronzes also in the bag, the team moved up to seventh place on the medals table.

Amended legislation to ease doing business in South Africa

Amendments to the National Environmental Management and the Mineral and Petroleum Development Acts will soon see a smoother process to licensing in the mining sector, improving the climate for investment in the country.

Mining Indaba: Growing population to boost Africa’s mineral development

 

Speaking at the 2014 Mining Indaba, Minerals Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said a growing world population was a good sign for Africa's development; Red Door Research's Jim Lennon echoed this, saying China's development needs would mean strong demand for the continent's resources.

Schoeman bags another medal

Roland Schoeman won a second medal for South Africa in the swimming pool at the Athens Olympics, picking up silver in the men's 100 metres freestyle. It was oh so close too, as Dutch star Pieter van den Hoogenband successfully defended his title in 48.17 seconds to Schoeman's 48.23.