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Canadian firm Alcan has signed a power supply deal with state electricity company Eskom that paves the way for the construction of a US$2.7-billion aluminium smelter in the Coega Industrial Development Zone in the Eastern Cape.

Entrepreneurs Sara Blakely and Richard Branson are backing South Africa's Women on the Move programme, which empowers young women to take control of their lives and help build responses to HIV/Aids and poverty in their communities.

South Africa collected five medals to finish fourth out of 33 countries at the 2006 ISA World Surfing Games in California, with Jordy Smith scoring a sensational victory in the men's open division.

"Are we about to witness an ideological shift in the ANC? I don't think so." Sir Anthony O'Reilly, chief executive of Independent News & Media, explains why he regards South Africa as a modern-day miracle - and why he thinks the miracle isn't over.

South Africa has been officially declared free of the preventable, but incurable, childhood disease of polio.

South Africa is a beautiful country, boasting a gorgeous coastline, stunning mountains, and mesmerising bushveld. It begs to be explored, and doing that on mountain bikes is a wonderful way to go about it. The longest trail in the country is the Freedom Trail.

South African start-up company Red Five Labs has developed pioneering technology that overcomes the incompatibility between the two major smartphone programming languages, allowing Microsoft .NET applications to run unchanged on Symbian OS powered mobile phones.

The City of Cape Town has signed a 20-year agreement to buy "clean" electricity from Darling Wind Farm, paving the way for an innovative partnership between local and foreign investors, the government and the community of Darling to get SA's first commercial wind farm up and running.

What's plastic, a metre long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It's the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it's come to symbolise the sport in the country.

As South Africa celebrates Youth Day, new research reveals that the country's young people believe they are better off than their parents were - and that their children will be even better off than they are now.