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Homeless people spent a warmer Tuesday night on the streets of Pretoria after receiving blankets and food from Deputy Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu and her team, as South Africans marked Mandela Day by reaching out to people less fortunate.

The town of Worcester in the Western Cape is to become home to a new sculpture of South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela. The sculpture, the world’s fifth of the anti-apartheid activist, will be unveiled on his 94th birthday on 18 July.

As the world prepares to honour Nelson Mandela on his 94th birthday on Wednesday, 18 July, Cadine Pillay wonders what meal might mean the most to the former statesman on his big day.

South African wildlife is in the news for a good reason, with the recent announcement that two local productions have been shortlisted for the 2012 Wildscreen Panda Awards, part of the UK’s Wildscreen environmental film festival.
• Musos pitch in to save rhinos

As the world prepares to honour Nelson Mandela on his 94th birthday, Cadine Pillay wonders what meal would mean the most to the former statesman on this great day.
• Madiba's life captured in art

The town of Worcester in the Western Cape is to become home to a new sculpture of South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela. The sculpture, the world’s fifth of the anti-apartheid activist, will be unveiled just in time for his 94^th birthday on 18 July.
• Madiba's life captured in art

Ahead of Youth Month 2012, veteran photojournalist Sam Nzima tells young South Africans to assume the strength and courage of their predecessors.
• Playing a part to give youth a future

Mamphela Ramphele's new movement for social change aims to free South Africans from the debilitating memories of apartheid, and help them to shape their own destiny.
•Top minds to guide SA's growth

Walking off with two awards, Otelo Burning was one of a number of South African films that won nine awards in total at the 2012 Africa Movie Academy Awards in Lagos, Nigeria.
• e'Lollipop sequel soon for SA

The PGA Tour has announced that South Africa's Gary Player, the winner of nine majors, the modern Grand Slam and 165 tournament titles around the world, will be the 10th recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.