World Cup Plans Advance Slowly
By Daniel Silke
No-one said that staging a Fifa World Cup was going to be easy. Amidst the great enthusiasm for winning the 2010 bid, South Africa now has to buckle down and prepare. This means huge costs and efficient stages of construction. For many, this poses new challenges at all levels of government and it is as much in the staging of the tournament as in the preparation, that S.A will be eventually judged...
FROM THE SOUTHERN DESK
By Daniel Silke
ASK A LAWYER:IT'S GREEN CARD LOTTERY TIME AGAIN
By Marlene Z Stanger, Esq
On October 4, 2006 the U.S Department of State (DOS) Diversity Visa Lottery Program for Fiscal Year 2008 (DV-2008) will begin and will run through December 3, 2006.
This "green card lottery" will result in 50,000 randomly selected people being eligible to apply for U.S. permanent residence...
LEFT OF WHAT'S RIGHT: VILLAINS OR VICTIMS
By Marlan Padayachee
Crime cited for South Africa's costly skills flight
Dateline Durban: As South Africans we have been called all sorts of names, tagged racially and had jibes hurled at us as the nation trundles along its new jeouney of reconciliation and nation-building.
It's all part of our painful history. i suppose because...
RECIPES: THANKSGIVING What is it all about?
By Elsabe Enslin
The Pilgrims who sailed to America on the Mayflower celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
Roast Leg of Lamb with Nut Filling
Pumpkin Fritters
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? SYLVIA CHAIT
By Drienie Hattingh
World renowned sculptor..."It was a fairytale-a miracle..."
Sylvia grew up in Port Elizabeth. She loved the ocean and spent countless hours gazing at it, running her fingers through the silky, white sand. She built sandcastles and collected shells and pebbles, mesmerized by their smooth texture. Late afternoon she sat on teh rocks and marveled at the African sunsets.
One day this little girl would become a world-renowned sculptor.
President Thabo Mbeki In NYC
By Charlene Avis
The Africa-America Institute recently hosted their 22nd Annual Awards gala in New York, where Blace Economic Empowerment was the focus of the evening. And who better to address the topic, than the South African State President, his Excellency Thabo Mbeki, flanked by Manne Dipico, Deputy Chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines and Chariman of Ponahalo Investment Holdings. BEE is democratic South Africa's pragmatic growth strategy aimed at overcoming the racial divide between rich and poor...
Dr. Beetroot: Another View
By Simone Barber
THE HEALTH MINISTER, UNFILTERED
If you want to believe that South Africa is going to hell in a hand basket under its post-Apartheid management, you will find plenty of ammunition in media reports about the health minister, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and her alleged voodoo approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic...
CALENDER OF EVENTS
By Kimberley Crowe
CHRONOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA a mini series
FAMILY CORNER: Name this location where a miner struck it lucky.
HOME AFFAIRS
By David Furlonger
Last week one of my colleagues went home for lunch and found her teenage daughter tied and gagged (fortunately nothing worse), and her house ransacked. A few days earlier another colleague was kidnapped on Friday, beaten, drugged and driven around in the boot of a car for the weekend before the vehicle was abandoned on Monday. The same weekend...
PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN:
DILANA:Our favorite Rock Star
By Dorianne Berry
From the very start, on
Rock Star: Supernova, she owned teh show.
Dilana has seared her way into the consciousness of serious rock.
Performing her original songs or cover-versions, like her brilliant, enthralling interpretation of
Rozanne, she had everyone spellbound...
JOHN HATTINGH: Designed for Winning
By Dorianne Berry
Just imagine you are the undisputed winner of a national high school's athletic championship, and your nearest rivel challenges you because you have an "unfair advantage." You are an amputee and you win. Your "unfair advantage," it turns out, is a prosthesis. This is just one of the anecdotes, of his many patients, that gave John Hattingh enormous satisfaction.
John is the owner of North West Prosthetic and Orthotic Clinic in Seattle...
SPORT: Who needs test rugby if we have the currie cup?
By Blou Willem
FINANCE:
By Colin Donian
"Albert Einstein, when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe, answered: 'Compound Interest!' What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want." - Mignon McLaughlin
Invest a little for longer and you will be better off than investing more for shorter! One hears this kind of dictum often; it also frequently wafts past one's senses without one really appreciating the intrinsic dynamics of the concept. It is one of those pieces of useful information that should be reiterated cntinuously-like a mantra. It can lead to a more successful life...
SA Writer Wins International Award
By Nicole Diederiks
Acclaimed South African journalist Zubeida Jaffer will receive one of the industry's highest awards: the prestigious Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, to be held on November 1, at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Jaffer has done South Africa proud...
HOT HAPPENINGS: WERE YOU THERE?
CALIFORNIA: Long Beach - SAABC SAILS THE SEVEN SEAS IN SUPPORT OF THE MARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER
By Charlene Avis
The South African American Business Club, SAABC, Orange County Chapter, inaugurated their first charity event on October 15,2006, to benefit Mariposa Women and Family Center. Seventy-five guests set sail aboard the
American Pride, a unique three-masted, 140' sailing schooner, enjoying drinks, hors d'oeuvres, dinner and dessert while listening to the music of Scott Bentley...
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles - OUR "TSOTSI" PRESLEY DOES IT AGAIN!
By Charlene Avis
Presley Chweneyagai, as Tsotsi, in Gavin Hood's Academy Award-winning movie, Tsotsi, has stolen the lime-light again! This time, he won the award for most outstanding performance in a leading role at the 2006 Blace Movie Awards, held in LA, on October 15, 2006, which celebrates Black cinema: past, present and future...
Madiba Celebrates In Style
by Charlene Avis
THE MADIBA EXPERIENCE
South African-owned Madiba Restaurant in Brooklyn, NY, celebrates their seven-year anniversary this month, 7 years in 7 days. "We're having a week-long bash and all are invited to come and celebrate our 7th year, while enjoying great food, drinks and exceptional entertainment, " says proud Papa Mark Henegan.
Whilst in New York recently, I needed my Madiba fix, so we found ourselves in Brooklyn to sample some lekker traditional cuisine. Never disappointed, we thoroughly enjoyed the bobotie (curried mince baked with egg custard topping) and mutton Durban Bunny Chow (saucy curry served in a quarter loaf of white bread), followed by one of the tastiest milktarts (cinnamon flavored homemade custard tart) ever. South African wines flowed, followed by Amarula Dom Pedros to complete the meal.
But it's not just the food at Madiba that makes it so special...it's the people...
CULTURE SHOCK: THE 'RIGHT' SIDE OF THE ROAD
By Drienie Hattingh
A CLOWN RETURNS HOME
By Jamie Lachman
GWADZU-ZENEX PRIMARY SCHOOL, BOTHA'S HILL, KZN
The sun rises blood red over the hills, swelling through the dust of coral fires. A quick breakfast of cornflakes...
TRAVEL: KARELL TAVEL - PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
by Charlene Avis
Bon voyage, Blacky! Hello, Firdosh and Ken! After ten years in the United States, Karell's Managing Director, Blacky Komani, has returned to South Africa. He has spent 22 years in sales and marketing with various high-end Southern African private game reserves - most recently, Singita Private game Reserve and Singit Lebombo in the Kruger National Park.
Welcome Aboard!
TWELVE APOSTLES HOTEL &SPA IS A HOT SPOT
The Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa has been recognized by readers of
Conde Nast Traveller UK as 9th best in the Africa, Middle East and Indan Ocean Islands region in the accommodation category, as well as 5th best spa in the Overseas Hotel Spa category...
And more...
- Letter From the Editor
- Mail bag - Letters from Readers.
- Calendar - Details of National South African Events.
- Brief Vannie Hys Af - Deur Blou Willem.
