by gbsaadmin | Jul 19, 2013 | Business, Environment, Europe, Featured, Jobs, News
Pretoria – The 6th South Africa-European Union (SA-EU) Summit ended on Thursday, with leaders in agreement that joint programmes were needed to address the common challenge of job creation. In a joint communiqué issued after the summit, South African President...
by gbsaadmin | Jul 5, 2013 | Business, Featured, News, Views
The South African government has committed itself to yet another huge handout to state-owned South African Airways. Subsidies for the perennial loss-making airline have already cost taxpayers at least R12 billion (that’s equivalent to about $1.2 billion at current...
by gbsaadmin | Jun 3, 2013 | Business, Featured, News, Technology
Pretoria – Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has congratulated a South African mobile applications company for their selection as one of the top five innovative and entrepreneurial companies in the world. “African innovators like Afroes are...
by gbsaadmin | May 17, 2013 | Featured, News, Technology
Cape Town – The construction of the 64-dish MeerKat satellite dishes – a precursor of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project – had commenced, the Minister of Science and Technology Derek Hanekom said on Thursday. Government has injected R2 billion in the Square...
by gbsaadmin | May 12, 2013 | Featured, News, Tourism
Durban – Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has announced that through South Africa’s marketing efforts in tourism they have reached over one billion consumers. “Our brand message on channels such as National Geographic and CNN International enabled us to...
