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Joomla! Day in Cape Town 19 July 2008
My Pressportal (press release), South Africa - 10 hours ago
Day CAPE TOWN, South Africa, an event to be held 19 July 2008, at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Joomla! Days offer an excellent opportunity …
Life by roll of the dice Dispatch Online
Albert Adams: Journey on a Tightrope ArtslinkNews
Taxes down the drain Sowetan

Synergy Corporate Technologies Delivers Apple Solution to SAE …
PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 1 hour ago
Through this relationship we are able to add additional value to our clients’ Apple needs and this was shown in our project with SAE Institute Cape Town …

Relief bodies battle to help 33 000 people
Independent Online, South Africa - 16 hours ago
In the first week of this month alone, 93mm of rain fell in Cape Town, 10mm more than the average for July. And it is likely that it will take more than a …

India: From Cape Town to Bangalore
Global Voices Online, MA - 3 hours ago
by Neha Viswanathan city-city-bang-bang relocates to India from South Africa and reflects on her experiences. Today there was some communal tension in …

Sub urban’s Mukunda, Ogilvy Cape Town and the WWF superheroes
Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 13 hours ago
This is the message cleverly put out by WWF and Ogilvy Cape Town, in its latest set of television commercials that form part of a major campaign across all …

Cape relaunches ‘tik-off’ campaign
Independent Online, South Africa - 10 hours ago
… has relaunched the "tik-off" campaign and has scheduled an exhibition at Cape Town shopping malls to make people aware of the deadly effects of drugs. …

Easier (press release)

Pampering for parents-to-be at luxury Cape Town resort
Easier (press release), UK - 13 hours ago
The Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa, nestled in one of Africa’s most unique marine nature reserves in Cape Town, South Africa is flanked by Table Mountain and …

Cape Epic gets dramatic revamp
News24.com, South Africa - 10 hours ago
Cape Town - The Absa Cape Epic is set for a dramatic revamp for the 2009 event, with the start being moved from Knysna to Gordon’s Bay in Cape Town. …

David Immergluck, guitarist with Counting Crows, records at brand …
South African Film News (press release), South Africa - 14 hours ago
“I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my day off in Cape Town. These guys are total muso’s and their studio has an awesome sound. It was a blast, …

Is this the biggest drug bust of the year?
Independent Online, South Africa - 14 hours ago
The two people arrested in Johannesburg will appear in court there on Friday for prosecutors to apply for the case to be transferred to Cape Town, …

Gig Of The Week In Cape Town - July 11, 2008
Tonight, South Africa - 13 hours ago
By Atiyyah Khan There are some huge gigs happening in die Kaap this week. We’re all holding thumbs and sending positive thoughts to the council so that The …

UCT to appoint first woman law dean
Independent Online, South Africa - 10 hours ago
The University of Cape Town will get its first-ever female dean of law when Professor PJ Schwikkard takes over the post at the start of 2009, the university …

VIDEO: Fire on Hospital Bend
News24, South Africa - 12 hours ago
We received this video from a News24 User of a truck on fire on Hospital Bend in Cape Town. We want to publish your cartoons on MyNews24. …

How long will you wait for a licence?
Independent Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago
We are getting more people and have sent them for training, but it takes about eight weeks to complete the course," Cape Town traffic services spokes-person …

Mandela letter shows activist was inspired by work of Catholic Church
Catholic Weekly, MI - 9 hours ago
By Gunther Simmermacher CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) — South African human rights activist Nelson Mandela was inspired by the Catholic Church’s …

Repairs to roads, bridges a top priority
Independent Online, South Africa - 10 hours ago
The Western Cape Provincial Disaster Management Centre says that 35 112 people have been affected in the City of Cape Town, with about 3 000 more affected …

When it rains, it…
Cape Argus (subscription), South Africa - 16 hours ago
The rain was expected to continue today - there was an 80 percent chance forecast for Cape Town - and most parts of the Western Cape experienced freezing …

ANC fatcats slammed at mass march
The South African Star, South Africa - 11 hours ago
By Moses Mdewu Mackay Union leaders lashed out at so-called fatcat ANC politicians at a mass rally against food price hikes in Cape Town on Wednesday, …

South Africa: ‘Freedom Church’ Brings Alive Apartheid Struggle
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 13 hours ago
South Africa’s "mother city" of Cape Town is renowned as the country’s most beautiful for tourists, but there’s no escaping the destruction of apartheid …

Dealing with being 40 one laugh at a time
Dispatch Online, South Africa - 17 hours ago
Popular Cape Town comedian Marc Lottering recently hit the big 40 and he says it’s been harder than he thought it would be. For starters, his well-trimmed …

Kickoff

Ngobeni gets dream chance tomorrow
Kickoff, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Caption: Ajax Cape Town’s Clifford Ngobeni will appear in tomorrow’s ‘Goals4Africa’ game in Munich. Clifford Ngobeni has been handed an unexpected dream …

US professor to sue Hlophe
Independent Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago
In June 2006, the JSC was asked to investigate complaints that Judge Hlophe’s son had received a bursary from a Cape Town firm of attorneys.
ANC defends Mantashe News24
Triple play to save Zuma Mail & Guardian Online
Can Judge Hlophe’s case help Zuma? Independent Online

School Builds on Links With Africa
RedOrbit, TX - 7 hours ago
Whitchurch High School in Cardiff is linked with Macassar High School in Cape Town. A group from South Africa came to Wales to find out what school life is …

Government ‘has broken promises to refugees’
Business Day, South Africa - 17 hours ago
CAPE TOWN — A range of civil society organisations in Western Cape has criticised all three tiers of government for failing to honour commitments given to …

PIC Solutions Presents at Credit Risk Management Summit
Newswire Today (press release), UK - 11 hours ago
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa, 07/11/2008 - PIC Solutions has been invited to present at the third Credit Risk …

The Big Issue increases distribution points
Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 13 hours ago
The Big Issue recently opened up a satellite office and vendor pitches in Bellville, Cape Town, in order to reach the northern suburbs of Cape Town. …

Compensate xeno victims – TAC
Sowetan, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Addressing a press conference in Cape Town, Eland said there were still 6171 displaced foreign nationals living in refugee camps in Cape Town. …

SOUTH AFRICA: The answer to xenophobia is a community
IRINnews.org, NY - 4 hours ago
Paarl, 60km from Cape Town, South Africa’s second city, is one of just a handful of stories of successful reintegration. Attacks against foreign nationals …

Rising sea levels threaten Cape, KZN real estate markets …
Moneyweb, South Africa - 1 hour ago
… speaking at a UN university project workshop in Cape Town, and what he was warning was urging planners to start building environmental changes into …

Candidate Connect
Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 9 hours ago
Candidate Connect is a Cape Town based recruitment consultancy with a successful track record of linking high calibre candidates to the right company, …

Kickoff

Ajax clamp down on Doutie trial
Kickoff, South Africa - 14 hours ago
Ajax Cape Town will not allow winger Sameehg Doutie to go on trial to Westerlo in Belgium. The player has been told he will be an integral part of the …

New York Times

Fancy Food, Via Africa
New York Times, United States - 5 hours ago
To encourage and connect her employees to the buyers, Polak is known to take them to fancy Cape Town hotels and boutiques to see their products out in the …

SA farmers may grow ‘super-spud‘
Business Day, South Africa - 17 hours ago
CAPE TOWN — The Agriculture Research Council (ARC) is set to apply to the government for a “general release” permit for a genetically engineered potato it …

New move to get towns on board over REDS
Business Day, South Africa - 17 hours ago
CAPE TOWN — The government is to adopt a carrot and stick approach to get municipalities to participate in the long delayed restructuring of electricity …

Land Bank forensic report stalls
Business Report, South Africa - 17 hours ago
By Donwald Pressly Cape Town - A forensic report into alleged misspending by the Land Bank - including the alleged misuse of the bank’s funds for buying …

MDC: Mat North 11 July - Report
SW Radio Africa, Zimbabwe - 7 hours ago
Interestingly, after speaking to some of the people who work on overland trucks,( they bring large groups of tourists from Nairobi all the way to Cape Town) …

ITInews - Insurance Times and Investments News

South African takes top honours in Global Investor awards
ITInews - Insurance Times and Investments News, South Africa - 12 hours ago
Founded by Hendrik du Toit (Pictured right) as a small start-up business in Cape Town in 1991, Investec Asset Management has grown under his guidance and …

Financial Mail (subscription)

Seek and ye shall dine
Financial Mail (subscription), South Africa - 10 hours ago
I thought for a moment that I was in Cape Town. The place is Bella. Situated in the slither of land between Illovo and Sandton called Chislehurston (behind …

SA’s public HIV programme gets a thumbs up
www.sagoodnews.co.za, South Africa - 9 hours ago
Researchers from the Universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Cape Town conducted the comparative study based on medical data collected from more than 2000 …

Affordable-housing programme is maturing, but the delivery …
Creamer Media’s Engineering News, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Cape Town’s housing backlog is estimated to be more than 400 000 families. The N2 Gateway is a pilot project that will deliver between 22 000 and 30 000 …

FM Tech

Google Earth: layers of fun
FM Tech, South Africa - 12 hours ago
The application now also provides 3D views of SA - we had fun playing around with views of the KwaZulu Natal coastline and Cape Town’s CBD. …

AFP

Bell chimes for England against South Africa
AFP - 3 hours ago
… was an England fourth-wicket record against South Africa, surpassing the 197 shared by Wally Hammond and Les Ames at Cape Town in 1938/39. …

Special unit needed to probe ATM bombings, says DA
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Cape Town – The DA has called for a dedicated police unit to investigate the recent spate of automatic teller machine (ATM) bombings around the country. …

Climate change a hotter topic for wealthier South Africans
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Cape Town – The richer they are, the more South Africans are aware of and concerned about climate change. This was one of the findings of a poll released …

City Lodge foresees leap in earnings
Business Report, South Africa - 17 hours ago
By AUDREY D’ANGELO Cape Town - The fast-growing City Lodge hotel chain expected that its fully diluted and undiluted headline and basic earnings per share …

PE tenants ‘should brace themselves for long-term cycle of rent …
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Data released in the June Trafalgar National Rental Index recently showed Port Elizabeth – alongside East London (annualised rental increase 18%), Cape Town …
EL has the highest rentals Dispatch Online
BUSINESS NEWS Residential rents rise iAfrica.com

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Patricia Francis - Widow of Francis Francis, dies in Switzerland
thebahamasweekly.com, Bahamas - 3 hours ago
Shortly after her birth the family moved to Cape Town in South Africa where her brother Gerald Leonard was born. After a few years in Cape Town they moved …

Neotel launches wireless network
Sowetan, South Africa - 16 hours ago
… Africa (Icasa) to finalise its regulations for new licences, Neotel will be rolling out 100 base stations across Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. …

SuperSport

Refs must watch Kiwi cheating - Venter
SuperSport, South Africa - 14 hours ago
When they played the Stormers in Cape Town at the start of the Super 14, Willie Roos allowed them to get away with spoiling tactics at the breakdown that …
Springbok coach labels ex-All Black rugby star ’stupid’ Citizen

Steel giant takes strategic decision on Newcastle production facility
Creamer Media’s Engineering News, South Africa - 16 hours ago
In today’s podcast: CIC Energy still hopes to be generating electricity by early 2013, the Competition Commission raids the premises of Cape Town. …

‘Torture chief a South African’
News24, South Africa - 16 hours ago
… of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD), a Cape town-based organisation that champions the rights of the disabled in Africa. …

IN THE RECOVERY OF STOLEN CULTURAL OBJECTS?
Afrikanet.info, Germany - 7 hours ago
Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town, 2001). - Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on …

L’express.mu

South Africans protest over high prices and government policies
L’express.mu, Mauritius - 16 hours ago
I don’t have food in the house,” said Mabel Adams, a factory worker and mother of four who joined 2000 protesters to march on parliament in Cape Town. …

iAfrica.com

Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 6 hours ago
‘Iolanta’ — the last opera composed by Tchaikovsky — will premiere in Cape Town on 30 July at Artscape Opera House. Among the composer’s works, …

…As ESPN Shows SA 2010 Special
This Day, Nigeria - 19 hours ago
There is only one exception to that and that is Cape Town.” The show will also detail the Organising Committee’s program called ‘Dreamfields’ which aims to …

iAfrica.com

Charity begins on holiday
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 17 hours ago
Wildlife projects at Cape Town company Aviva include working with vervet monkeys in KwaZulu-Natal and horses on the Wild Coast, doing whale and dolphin …

Pilot sets the bar in Tour de Freedom
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 14 hours ago
As a South African Airways pilot, Tim James is used to doing the distance between Durban and Cape Town in about two hours. He has just finished this …

Times Online

Donkey Punch: a creepy mix of sex and violence
Times Online, UK - 2 hours ago
… for the entire six weeks of the Cape Town-based shoot (though set in Spain, South Africa made more fiscal sense on the film’s modest £500000 budget). …

African Films at the 29th Durban International Film Festival
ArtslinkNews, South Africa - 13 hours ago
… The City That Kills Somalians, Riaan Hendricks’ distinctive look at Cape Town’s poor and dispossessed; and the music documentaries Zulu Meets Jazz, …

AFP

England 422-5 against South Africa in cricket Test
AFP - 9 hours ago
That also marked a new England fourth-wicket record against South Africa, surpassing the 197 put on by Wally Hammond and Les Ames at Cape Town in 1938/39. …

Taxi boss blasted over fiery remarks
Sowetan, South Africa - 16 hours ago
… Eugene Hadebe’s alleged remark on Tuesday ahead of protests and stayaways organised by Cosatu and held in Cape Town, Durban and Newcastle yesterday. …

BBC News

Tunisia dominate Confed Cup
BBC News, UK - 12 hours ago
Francis Evambe scored a hat-trick as they trounced Ajax Cape Town of South Africa 5-0 to overcome a four-goal first leg deficit. …

Single-handed sailor charts his own course
Independent Online, South Africa - 12 hours ago
After a brief stop, Yonago pushed on to Spain, then to Brazil, before making his way to Cape Town and finally to Durban. He is preparing for his next leg to …

A new apartheid: property wealth
Realestateweb.co.za, South Africa - 16 hours ago
… Seeff Properties’ clients at an exclusive briefing in Cape Town that people are probably best off staying out of the residential sector for many years. …

Fired builders resume 2010 work
The Times, South Africa - 14 hours ago
Grievances over working conditions have halted construction at other stadium building sites in Durban and Cape Town. However, event organisers remain …

Charles Blackmon delivers as Tri-City tops Everett
Seattle Times, United States - 15 hours ago
Anthony Phillips, an 18-year-old shortstop from Cape Town, South Africa, hit his first home run for Everett (9-14).

iAfrica.com

Preview: Currie Cup
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 16 hours ago
The Cape Town visitors will no doubt see it as entertainment rather than intimidation as they travel to the Big Hole with a guaranteed 5 points in mind. …

Bangkok is the best
Bangkok Post, Thailand - 20 hours ago
Bangkok, which ranked third last year, earns top score of 87.6, followed by Buenos Aires (87.2), Cape Town (86.5), Sydney (86.4), and then Florence (86.2). …

Sydney Morning Herald

Australia rated tourist hotspot by US travellers
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 21 hours ago
Buenos Aires and Cape Town were voted second and third, while Sydney came in fourth after being ranked fifth last year. Editor of Travel + Leisure Australia …

Club scene hots up
News24.com, South Africa - 12 hours ago
Cape Town - The 2008 club rugby season reaches its climax in three of the 14 provinces on Saturday as teams from the Falcons, Griffons and Griqualand West …

Father: We knew about other suspect
Dispatch Online, South Africa - 17 hours ago
Advocate Kosie Olivier, who practices in Cape Town, is to represent the police in the civil claim. Olivier has asked for an extension to reply to Van der …

SuperSport

Has De Villiers got it right?
News24.com, South Africa - 14 hours ago
Cape Town - South African record point scorer Percy Montgomery returns at fullback in place of Conrad Jantjes, who heads to the bench. …
Boks must atone for big mistake SuperSport

The Campaigner
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, UK - 6 hours ago
“We met at a university party in Cape Town have been married ever since,” she recalled. “I was a Rhodesian and I had dual citizenship,” she said. …

Volvo Ocean Race returns to Asia
Newindpress, India - 2 hours ago
From its first stopover in Cape Town, the race will head to Cochin for its second leg to reach on 3rd of December 2008 and competitors will be stationed for …

Elizabeth Davies: Mandela was no terrorist
Norwich Bulletin, CT - 2 hours ago
In the distance — too far to swim, but close enough for a good view — stood the beautiful curve of Cape Town, South Africa. Standing tall over the city was …

RIGHTS: ‘Gay Acceptance Related to Income’
Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 4 hours ago
In February 2006, 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana was beaten to death by a mob in Khayletisha township in Cape Town. The following year, another two …

Editorial: What about the workers?
The Dominion Post, New Zealand - 5 hours ago
… over to South Africa to test the waters as a linesman, sorry referee’s assistant, when the All Blacks play the Springboks in Cape Town next month. …

Steel construction awards receive record entry numbers
Creamer Media’s Engineering News, South Africa - 5 hours ago
In today’s podcast: CIC Energy still hopes to be generating electricity by early 2013, the Competition Commission raids the premises of Cape Town. …

Magnet therapy for depression?
Health24.com, South Africa - 6 hours ago
The University of Cape Town is currently also undertaking clinical research in the treatment of depression with TMS, Dr Neil Horn, senior specialist and …

Friday, July 11, 2008
Bush Radio Newsroom, South Africa - 9 hours ago
“Here in Cape Town, two brothers with the ages of 20 and 35 years old and they are all going to appear on Monday the 14th of July in the Bishop Lavis …

Total football education
Financial Mail (subscription), South Africa - 10 hours ago
In the next weeks, another local teenager, Daylon Claassen, begins his new career at Ajax Amsterdam, moving on a three-year deal from Ajax’s Cape Town …

The Silent War on Africa?
African Path, MN - 10 hours ago
In September 2005, a study submitted to Parliament in Cape Town compared the treatment of landless black farmers under apartheid and their treatment today. …

Win! Enjoy the perfect party courtesy of Style Defined Events
Enfield & Haringey Independent, UK - 10 hours ago
… always had a passion for event planning and has managed literally hundreds, including events for the likes of BMW, Estee Lauder and the Mayor of Cape Town.

Ramapo to create spiritual center for students of all faiths
New Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ - 11 hours ago
Padovano has attended these gatherings since 1999, when the parliament was held in Cape Town, South Africa. Rabbi Ely Allen delivers a blessing at the …

Towns cut off by floods
The South African Star, South Africa - 16 hours ago
In Cape Town, about 22 000 people have been affected at 70 informal settlements. A further 1 600 in Citrusdal were affected and 365 in Vredendal added to …

Daily Mail

VIDEO: You must be blind, ref! Blind drunk that is… Official …
Daily Mail, UK - 13 hours ago
The referee caused a storm in Ireland in 1999 after he put the country’s under-17 team out of the Meridian Cup in Cape Town in a game against Egypt. …

Wakeboarders to stir up Sparks Marina
Carson Times, NV - 13 hours ago
Butler who is a native of Cape Town, South Africa, who moved to England and relocated to Orlando this year, is in her second year on the Tour. …

Cinema Nouveau extends opera screenings to all sites
South African Film News (press release), South Africa - 14 hours ago
… Cinema Nouveau opened on June 20 with the screening of Puccini’s La Boheme at Cinema Nouveau in Cedar Square, Fourways and V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. …

Sydney number four on travel destination list
asap News, UK - 14 hours ago
Buenos Aires, Argentina was ranked second and Cape Town, South Africa came in third. Sydney’s fourth place moved it up one in the ranking’s from last year’s …

V&A Hotel goes wireless with Integr8 IT
IT News Affrica, South Africa - 15 hours ago
The Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Hotel in Cape Town, nestled in one of the mother city’s most acclaimed tourist destinations, is one example. …

Norwich Evening News

Delays and drunks - all in a day’s work
Norwich Evening News, UK - 16 hours ago
… above the call of duty include reuniting passengers with lost items, such as a mobile phone which was left in an airport in Cape Town, South Africa. …

Investec bucks the trend and banks on financials and consumer goods
Business Day, South Africa - 17 hours ago
The fund manager, which is based both in Cape Town and London, is heavily invested in financial stocks despite the fact that these shares have fallen …

Pope’s visit a fillip for Australia’s flagging faith
Thaindian.com, Thailand - 20 hours ago
It’s even expanded to London, Cape Town and Kiev. Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell, a personal friend of the pope, sees the July 15-20 gathering of …

Travel Wires

Singita named Best Hotel in the World and more …
Travel Wires, South Africa - 18 hours ago
Cape Town – South Africa’s premier safari brand, Singita, scooped no less than three major international travel awards when it was named Best Hotel in the …

Sangala brothers set for third album
Nyasa Times, Malawi - 22 hours ago
The album will be mixed and mastered in Cape Town, South Africa. Their previous albums include debut Kwathu Ku Ndirande, with such hits like Ku Ndirande, …

[ELD] Church Center Midwest regional office up and running …
Worldwide Faith News (press release), NY - 23 hours ago
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and president and founder of African Monitor, offers the following commentary. …

Travel Wires

African airlines start cutbacks
Travel Wires, South Africa - 18 hours ago
Johannesburg – It’s a safe bet that SAA’s decision to stop its daily non-stop flights between Cape Town and Frankfurt is part of a general cutback of …

iAfrica.com

More affected by floods
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 16 hours ago
The provincial disaster management centre reported that the lives of 35 112 residents were disrupted in Cape Town alone. Another 3000 people were affected …

Zim families flooding SA
News24.com, South Africa - 7 hours ago
Cape Town - Zimbabweans fleeing their country for South Africa because of political violence are now bringing their families with them, according to the …

Stofile rejects Pillay report “with contempt”
Politicsweb, South Africa - 20 hours ago
CAPE TOWN (Sapa) - Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile, named in a voluminous report on corruption in the Eastern Cape, said on Thursday he rejected its …