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News24 | Die Brug and Takalani Sesame earn global recognition with 2024 International Emmy nominations

The reality show Die Brug on kykNET and the educational children's program Takalani Sesame have both received nominations for the 2024 International Emmy Awards.

2024-09-20 10:22

News24 | 'There is great excitement' in the Klein Karoo as Mia le Roux returns home with Miss SA crown

Miss South Africa Mia le Roux will be returning to her hometown of Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape this weekend.

2024-09-20 10:22

News24 Business | PIC-owned Daybreak Farms gets R250m loan

South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation, the continent’s biggest fund manager, has backed Daybreak Foods with a R250 million loan to boost its operations and balance sheet.

2024-09-20 08:27

S.J. Naudé’s playlist for his novel “Fathers and Fugitives”

"...occasionally I may hear a song or a piece of music that is so startlingly evocative, and to which I respond so instantly and intensely, that it can spawn an entire story. Or a cascade of images or phrases or sentences."

2024-09-19 21:46

200-Year-Old South African Cave Painting May Depict an Animal Extinct for Over 200 Million Years

A 200-year-old South African cave painting made by the region’s first inhabitants, the San people, appears to depict an animal that has been extinct for over 200 million years. A long-bodied animal with downward-turned tusks, the warm-blooded, lizard-like cre…

2024-09-19 19:27

South African Cave Art May Depict Extinct Animal from 250 M. Years Ago, New Study Finds

If the painting in fact depicts a dicynodont, it would then predate the first formal scientific record of these animals by at least 10 years.

2024-09-19 19:14

South Africa keen on increasing Chinese, Indian tourist arrivals

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- South Africa is considering easing travel restrictions to increase tourist arrivals from China and India, a senior government official said Thursday. Read full story

2024-09-19 17:18

News24 | Former Eskom contractor extradited to SA for Kusile fraud and corruption case

Michael Lomas, a former contractor at power utility Eskom, wanted in connection with the R745 million Kusile fraud and corruption case, is being extradited to South Africa.

2024-09-19 16:06

Qatar Airways BUSINESS CLASS (QSuites/Lie Flat) Airfare Sale From $3610 To Dubai & Select Cities in Africa - Book by September 30, 2024 (2 replies)

Skytrax rated 5 out of 5 stars for Worlds Best Airline is having a business class round trip airfare sale starting from $3610 to Dubai, Kilimanjaro, Johannesburg and Cape Town. An example RT from Los

2024-09-19 15:38

Readers’ wildlife photos

Today we have LEOPARD photos taken by Phil Frymire, whom I met in the line for the plane from Newark to Johannesburg. Someone said, as I perused the line, “Are you Jerry Coyne?” I was shocked, but it turned out that Phil and his brother read this site and rec…

2024-09-19 13:15