by gbsaadmin | Jun 21, 2012 | Featured, News, Sport
Pretoria – South Africa’s Olympic governing body SASCOC on Wednesday announced a star-studded team which will travel to the 2012 London Paralympic Games later this year. The team is only slightly down on the 66 athletes that travelled to the 2008 Beijing...
by gbsaadmin | Jun 19, 2012 | Business, Featured, News
Pretoria – South Africa has committed to invest $2 billion of its reserves to the International Monetary Fund’s firewall fund, the Presidency said on Tuesday. “Along with fellow members of the G20, South Africa announced in Los Cabos today that it is committed...
by gbsaadmin | Jun 17, 2012 | Education, Featured, News
Pretoria – Cabinet has called on all South Africans to support the 94+ Projects for Madiba campaign aimed at celebrating former President Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday and his legacy by improving infrastructure in 94 schools across the country. Madiba will once...
by gbsaadmin | Jun 12, 2012 | Brazil, Featured, India, Jobs, News
Pretoria – South Africa, India and Brazil, together known as IBSA, have signed an agreement which proposes the creation of an IBSA tripartite Working Group on Decent Work, which will meet at least once a year at the margins of the International Labour...
by gbsaadmin | Jun 6, 2012 | Featured, Health, News
Mbombela – Six thousand more people in Mpumalanga are expected to be checked or treated for illnesses on the Phelophepa health train. Transnet Phelophepa Clinic train manager, Thabisile Makhaye, said more than 4 000 people had already been treated since the...
by gbsaadmin | Jun 4, 2012 | Auto, Business, Featured, News
Pretoria – Vehicle sales surged in May, rising by 20.7% to 50 229 from 41 625 units in May 2011, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) said. The 20.7% growth was above the growth rate in industry total sales of 9.4% for...