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South African grade nine pupil Luke Taylor has made it into the finals of the 2011 Google Science Fair competition, beating more than 7 500 entrants from over 90 countries.
• Google nurtures talent in South Africa

South African students Danielle Boer and Alessio Giuricich were awarded top prizes at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in the US for innovative research in dealing with social challenges through science.
• Local author gets top sci-fi award

A South African researcher, one of five scholars from Africa, has been awarded a place in the African Wildlife Foundation’s (AWF) 2010/11 Charlotte Conservation Fellows Programme.

South Africa has cancelled Cuba’s R1.1-billion debt owed to it, a decision that the government said will help accelerate trade between the two countries.
• South Africa-China trade ties to strengthen

Based on the best-selling book series by John van de Ruit, Spud: The Movie hit the local circuit on 3 December 2010 - the latest in a crop of recent productions demonstrating the calibre of South African filmmaking.

A nostalgic trip to the North West province brings back memories of boyhood football games on sandy fields, and reveals that there is still a wealth of untapped football talent in South Africa.

When Andre Shearer founded Cape Classics in New York in 1992, the American wine market was regarded as too tough for South African exporters to crack. Today, his company is the biggest US importer of high-end South African wines, representing 21 of the Cape's finest estates and labels.

South Africa has handed over a new library and archives building to house the ancient Mali manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in the historic city of Timbuktu.

The highest-paid living female artist in the world is South African, and she is back in her country of birth with an exhibition cataloguing her life's work.