The DA in Plettenberg Bay has allegedly given a company run by a resident in the area a R4.3 million short-term IT contract without tender, the Sunday Times reported.

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President Jacob Zuma will use social media to find out what is troubling South Africans ahead of his State of the Nation address on February 9, his office said on Sunday.

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The proportion of adults with the lowest living standards has decreased by 77% over the last 10 years, according to the latest South Africa Survey published by the SA Institute of Race Relations.

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The Chief Director of Cultural Affairs for the Western Cape, Ms. Hannetjie Du Preez, will share a traditional birthday cake with a number of high profile guests when the Dias Museum Complex celebrates its 23rd birthday on February the 3rd this year.

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"It seemed as if that one visible eye kept looking pleadingly at me as if to say, 'I don't know what is going on here'," says Dr Johannes Meyer of Steenbras Street in Brenton-on-Sea about the striped dolphin he tried to persuade not to beach itself at sunset on on Sunday, January 29.

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The second weekend in February in George traditionally belongs to the Midas Old Car Show and 2012 will be no exception!

Inset: Susan Wilson, George manager of the main sponsor Midas and the Executive Mayor of George Charles Standers, admired this Model T Ford at this week’s sponsors’ breakfast at the King George Protea Hotel (Photo: George Herald).

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Locals were very outspoken about their concerns over the Protection of State Information Bill at the Public Hearings of the ad hoc committee of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).

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South Africa's Standard Bank Group is ranked the most valuable banking brand in Africa in the 2012 global Top 500 Banking Brands report - the second year in a row it has received the accolade.

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South African Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has welcomed the 25-year sentences handed down to three Mozambicans this week, as the country steps up its efforts to combat rhino poaching

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For 3.8 billion years, Nature has been designing, engineering and manufacturing without using fossil fuels or causing toxic waste. Why do people not let her teach them?

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Sunday's sweltering heat brought capacity crowds to Victoria Bay. With them, came some unruly people who littered the beach, acted in an antisocial manner and indulged in binge drinking - much to the annoyance of ordinary, beach-loving citizens.

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There is a new hero in town and to say that Volvo Golf Champions winner Branden Grace has encouraged 15 SAGDB learners from George would be an understatement.

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South African Airways has made its first non-stop flight to China. A specially branded SAA Airbus A340-600 landed in Beijing on Wednesday morning, opening up a strategic transport route between Asia, Africa and South America.

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South Africa's world-renowned events and lifestyle offerings have proven to strike a chord with the Indian traveller who is eager to experience a unique and varied destination with a wide range of choices to suit every budget, says Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk

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With the Africa Open set to stay in East London for the next five years, there has been a great spinoff for the development of the game, with a R 150 000 sponsorship being set aside to make the game more accessible to players from disadvantaged communities.

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Cycling South Africa has pulled off another coup by winning the rights to stage the 2013 Mountain Bike Masters World Championships in Pietermaritzburg, a week before the 2013 MTB World Championships at the same venue.

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The Digital Drum, a computer learning solution co-created by Unicef and South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, has been cited by Time Magazine as one of the top 50 inventions in the world for 2011.

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Adam Morley from Mossel Bay represents the Garden Route both nationally and internationally as a top body boarder.  He finished second in the SABA (South African Body Boarding Association) tour at the end of 2011 and won the Margate classic.

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"I've always coached to make a difference to the people of our country," Heyneke Meyer said on his appointment as the new Springbok coach on Friday, calling on the people of South Africa to get behind their rugby team.

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Mercedes-Benz South Africa is initiating a technical learnership at the St Anthony's Centre in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, to help address the shortage of appropriately skilled technicians in the country's automotive sector

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