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O.R. Tambo International Airport
O.R. Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) is named after Oliver Reginald Tambo, who was known as O.R. by his peers and is...
Arts Alive ushers in a feeling of spring
Taking place through the month of September, the Arts Alive Festival is Johannesburg's flagship arts event, and this year it is bigger than before, with hundreds of events spread across 30 venues in the city.
• Avalon Theatre rises from the ashes
Family makes M’hudi Wines a winner
M'hudi, winner of the 2010 Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year Award, is South Africa's first wholly black-owned wine tourism farm. Its success is down to the hard work of the Rangaka family, who beat the odds to realise a dream.
Technology on a tiny scale
South Africa is moving into the fast-evolving field of nanotechnology with the establishment of the country’s first two nanotechnology centres in Gauteng province.
SA chef wins top honours
Award-winning South African chef Diane Kay is on her way to the prestigious 2009 Bocuse d’Or international culinary competition, the highlight of the global cuisine calendar, where winners find themselves instant celebrities.
DNA coding Kruger Park’s plants
A small group of scientists have launched an ambitious project to use DNA sequencing and genetic barcoding technology to study the plants of South Africa's Kruger National Park, in a bid to identify the elusive genetic "barcode" for the Earth's plant species.
