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South Africa is pulling out all the stops to ensure it succeeds in 2010 - both as hosts of the Football World Cup and as one of the participants. The country has turned to one of the world's most respected coaches, Carlos Alberto Parreira, to help revive an underperforming national team.

The South African team of Ashleigh Simon, Kelli Shean and Stacy Bregman made history at De Zalze when they won the World Amateur Women's Team Championship after a nail-biting playoff.

One message, many voices. That is what the 2010 National Communication Partnership Conference on branding South Africa hopes to achieve in the lead up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The Conference is being hosted by the International Marketing Council of South Africa (IMC) on behalf of the 2010 National Communication Partnership Task Team (which includes representatives from government, business and the 2010 Local Organising Committee). The one-day indaba, which takes place on Tuesday 15 August, includes inputs from leading local and international speakers in the morning, outcomes-based workshops in the afternoon and a glittering gala dinner to end proceedings.

One message, many voices. That is what the 2010 National Communication Partnership Conference on branding South Africa hopes to achieve in the lead up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The Conference is being hosted by the International Marketing Council of South Africa (IMC) on behalf of the 2010 National Communication Partnership Task Team (which includes representatives from government, business and the 2010 Local Organising Committee). The one-day indaba, which takes place on Tuesday 15 August, includes inputs from leading local and international speakers in the morning, outcomes-based workshops in the afternoon and a glittering gala dinner to end proceedings.

There was not too much to shout about for Bafana Bafana, South Africa's national soccer team, in 2003, but the women's side, affectionately called Banyana Banyana, can look back on a job well done. So too can the Tsetse Flies - the national under-12 team.

Cape Town-based Roth Medical Components was named Africa's top small business at the first Africa SMME Awards function in Johannesburg.