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L’Afrique du Sud a accueilli de nombreux evenements internationaux importants mais la Coupe du Monde de Football est un evenement a part. En juin 2010, les yeux de millions de visiteurs et de milliards de telespectateurs se tourneront vers la pointe sud de l'Afrique Nous ne voulons pas decevoir.

L’Afrique du Sud beneficie des meilleures plages du monde. De la bande cotiere virginale de Cape Vidal au KwaZulu-Natal jusqu’a la celebre Cote Sauvage de la province d’Eastern Cape, de la colonie de pingouins de Boulders Beach a Camps Bay inonde de soleil dans la province de Western Cape.en matiere de plages, nous gagnons haut la main.

Recent parliamentary hearings on a draft Children's Bill, drawn up by the SA Law Reform Commission to bring together all legislation relating to children, were tense as welfare organisations and the government argued over key points excluded from the original draft Bill.

Any visitor to Soweto knows that a tour of the Hector Pieterson Museum is compulsory. So are visits to the houses of Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, and dinner at Wandie's Place. But not everyone knows that overnight stays are an option.

Johannesburg's Sandton Square has been renamed the Nelson Mandela Square, and celebrated its 10th anniversary - and 10 years of democracy in South Africa - by unveiling the world's first public statue of the man who led the country across the apartheid divide.

Alexandra township in Johannesburg has been under threat of demolition many times in its 100-year-old history - particularly in the height of the apartheid period, when other "black spots" in the middle of white suburbs met their deaths beneath state bulldozers. Of these, Alex alone survived. Thanks to a friendship.

Nelson Mandela turned 85 on 18 July 2003 - and you, and you, and you ... sent him 17 842 birthday messages via the official Mandela 85th Birthday website. View a selection of messages in the moving, amazing, 25-page Nelson Mandela 85th Birthday Message Book.