Plettenberg Bay could become the first municipality in Africa to employ an environmentally friendly way of disposing of its waste, if a recent presentation by a Johannesburg company to the mayoral committee bears fruit.

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South African juniors won gold, silver and bronze medals on the opening day of the UCI BMX World Championships in Pietermaritzburg, with nine-year-old Johannesburg schoolgirl Georgina Grassie being crowned world champion.

Inset: South Africa's Georgina Grassie celebrates being crowned world champion in the nine-year age category at the UCI BMX World Championships in Pietermaritzburg (Photo: Dave Macleod, Gameplan Media)

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The price of all grades of petrol will drop by 10 cents per litre on Wednesday next week, the energy department said today (July 30).

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South Africa's Nedbank says it has attained carbon neutrality across its 13 head office and regional buildings and more than 490 branches countrywide, making it the first African financial services organisation to achieve effective zero carbon status

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An innovative employment website, found at www.trady.co.za, will be launching soon with the aim of harnessing the online media space to help informal sector construction workers secure jobs. 



Inset: Around 130 000 jobs were created for construction workers in preparation for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (Getty Images).

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The NSRI in St Francis Bay was called out at the weekend to help an Irvin & Johnson fishing trawler that had a rope fouling its propellers 30 nautical miles off shore.

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Laser physicist Dr Christine Steenkamp is one of three African women scientists who recently received international recognition for excellence in research.

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First National Bank is set to launch a new solution enabling employers to pay the workers without bank accounts via their mobile phones, giving them immediate access to their salaries via the bank's ATMs – without needing bank cards or accounts.

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Combining years of research on water purification, food microbiology and nanotechnology, scientists at South Africa's Stellenbosch University have developed a high-tech "tea bag" filter that fits into the neck of a bottle and turns polluted water into clean water as you drink from it.

Inset: Stellenbosch University's Professor Eugene Cloete, inventor of a high-tech 'tea bag' filter that fits into the neck of a bottle and delivers clean water as you drink from it (Photo: HOPE Project)

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Astone quarry on the edge of Graaff-Reinet’s Camdeboo National Park is stirring controversy in the Karoo heartland.

Inset: Camdeboo National Park manager Peter Burdett at Gannalapa, where he and his team have started building the park’s first over-night facility. Up until now the park, which encircles Graaff-Reinet, has not offered accommodation. Burdett emphasises that the new bush camp will not compete with tourism establishments in Graaff-Reinet. (Picture: Guy Rogers)

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The Bitou council has told its attorneys to seek a High Court review of Western Cape Local Government MEC Anton Bredell’s refusal to remove DA councillor Johann Brummer from office.

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Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille should “buy an engagement ring”, Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille said yesterday, as talk grew of a merger between the two parties.

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The successful hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup will have a multiplier effect on the number of international tourists visiting Cape Town in future, the city's tourism agency predicts.

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Capetonians will soon have access to detailed statistics reflecting crime patterns down to street level - all available at the click of a mouse.

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South Africa has named an initial squad of 115 athletes to contest the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India in October. Check out Team SA's hopes, and the country's history at the event, where it has become a prominent performer since rejoining the Commonwealth in 1994

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"Don't call me, I'll call you," Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said to journalists after announcing his withdrawal from public life.

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Cape Town's Green Point stadium, visited by over half-a-million football fans during the 2010 Fifa World Cup, had cost about 25% less than its council-approved operating budget over the last 18 months, its operator said while outlining future plans for the venue on Wednesday

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South African glossy business-to-business magazine Leadership has been named the best in the world in the annual Tabbie awards presented by the US-based Trade Association Business Publications International (Tabpi), an association of more than 100 publishing houses.

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Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has been appointed to chair the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Tourism Council until next year.

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The beautiful Robertson Wine Valley in the Western Cape hosts the fourth "Robertson Slow" from 6 to 9 August. It's an opportunity for visitors to experience 26 world-class wineries and guesthouses and what they have to offer ... slowly.

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