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South Africa’s national football squad captain Aaron Mokoena will be honoured at a high-profile dinner in Johannesburg on 7 June. The event will also help to raise funds for Mokoena’s charity foundation, and wish his team well for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

Jakhalsdans, a new South African film, has become an almost instant box office hit, setting new standards for Afrikaans-language movies.

President Jacob Zuma was in Kimberley on 21 April to mark the start of the 50 days’ countdown to the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

Google South Africa is getting in on the 2010 Fifa World Cup action by inviting local school children to enter their football-themed Google logo into an international Doodle4Google competition.
• Google with South African flair

KwaZulu-Natal province has launched a R1.5-million training programme for 1 500 volunteers, aptly named “tourist buddies”, who will provide helpful tourism information and friendly service to 2010 Fifa World Cup visitors.
• World Cup ticket sales simplified

How did Alicia Polak, a Wall Street investment banker at the crest of a buoyant economy several years ago, end up in Khayelitsha, the vast and impoverished township outside Cape Town, trying to kick-start a self-help baking initiative?
• Turning the jobless into jewellers