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South African fashion designer Gavin Rajah has been appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund, joining a host of other international celebrities in a quest to secure children's rights around the world.

The Southern African Development Community is pushing for stronger regional integration before a considering unified continental government, as delegates at the 9th African Union heads of state summit in Ghana take part in the 'grand debate'.

The United Kingdom has donated US$20-million to a new fund which will help businesses to encourage entrepreneurship in Africa.

African businesses can become far more competitive, but governments must address issues around finance and infrastructure. That's according to the Africa Competitiveness Report 2007, released in Cape Town on Wednesday.

South Africa's JSE was named Africa's best stock exchange, New York-based Citigroup its best investment bank, and Kenya Commercial Bank its top performing company at the 2007 Africa Investor Index Awards.

South Africa's economy is growing like never before, says President Thabo Mbeki, with investment rising from 14.7% to 19.2% of GDP over the last four years and more than half a million new jobs being created every year since September 2004.

A long-standing South African icon met up with a new South African icon when Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu paid a visit to Team Shosholoza in Valencia, Spain.

Three of Europe's top soccer players are in South Africa to show their confidence in the country's ability to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The three stars, Owen Hargreaves, Piotr Trochowski and Philipp Lahm, are attending a press conference and a tour of two Johannesburg 2010 soccer stadiums organised by the International Marketing Council (IMC) of South Africa (responsible for Brand South Africa) in consultation with the organisation that so successfully branded Germany during the last World Cup in 2006: Germany - Land of Ideas, and the City of Johannesburg.

South African National Parks has been allocated R574.9-million to develop infrastructure and improve facilities in the country's nature reserves for the 2010 Fifa World Cup and beyond.

The final 23 players for the 32 squads competing in South Africa's 2010 Fifa World Cup were announced after the deadline for confirmed teams passed on 1 June.