Forming part of the multi-million rand security plan for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, a R100-million contract between the SAPS and Carl Zeiss Optronics has been signed, giving the police the edge in the fight against crime.
A specialised surveillance camera system, the LEO II-A5-EP, will be fitted to helicopters in the SAPS’s air wing across the country, enabling the police …

The world-class Johannesburg International Motor Show (JIMS) is set to impress motoring enthusiasts by representing every sector of the motoring fraternity at its exhibition.
Though the motoring industry has taken a huge hit in the current economic conditions, exhibition organiser Zaida Enver believes that JIMS is a way of injecting positive energy into the industry and couldn’t have come at a …

Africa in Motion, Britain’s chief African film festival opened in Edinburgh on the weekend to packed audiences, prompting a new interest in the artistic value of African cinema outside of the continent.
The festival, now in its third year, will begin touring the UK in November showcasing the best African filmmakers have to offer, most notably through its Africa in Motion …

The City of Durban is on a roll as yet another large-scale event has been granted to the KwaZulu-Natal capital.
The Durban International Convention Centre will play host to the 4 000-delegate World Congress of Psychotherapy in 2014.
The announcement was made earlier this month at the 2008 psychotherapy world congress in Beijing, where South Africa successfully outbid Spain to host …

A R1.4-billion expansion of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) will aim to make the building the country’s greenest and, according to the CEO of Convenco Rashid Toefy, a city icon.
Convenco, the CTICC’s holding company, said the building would be one of the most technologically advanced of its kind, and that due to the past successes of the centre …

South African petrochemical company Sasol has invested R250-million in universities across the country over the next ten years to improve and develop world-class teaching in the disciplines of chemistry and engineering.
Sasol will grant the country’s universities R25-million each year to develop world-class science and engineering graduates, attract talented academics to teach at those universities, and to facilitate the growth …

South African crime feature film Jerusalema has been submitted for consideration in the category of best foreign language film for the 81st Academy Awards to be held in 2009.
Jerusalema is a critically acclaimed film about crime, corruption and squandered opportunities in post apartheid South Africa.
Barry Ronge, the country’s foremost film critic calls Jerusalema ‘downright revolutionary.’
Director Ralph Ziman based the script …

The Soshanguve South Secondary School, a R30-million initiative of the Independent Development Trust (IDT), was officially handed over to the Gauteng department of education on Friday.
It is expected that the school, which features a fully-fledged library, a Gauteng Online computer room, and science and home economics laboratories, will cater to over 1 100 pupils when its doors are opened next …

After traversing a mammoth 2 000km to raise breast cancer awareness across South Africa, a dozen breast cancer survivors forming part of the Temptations Journey of Hope Breast Cancer Ride, reached the finish line as they rode into Cape Town on Saturday.
The eight day journey ended at the VA Waterfront with about 200 members of local motorbike clubs, and Cape …

The first locally manufactured rail car for the high-speed Gautrain has been built and rolled off the assembly line by Union Carriage and Wagon (UWC) situated in Nigel, in Gauteng’s East Rand.
The home-grown white carriage features gold and blue stripes above its windows, side panels, floors and doors, and forms part of the 81 rail cars being assembled by the …