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 …

As part of their US$120-million (about R1.1-billion) investment into sub-Saharan Africa, multinational technology company IBM, along with the Department of Science and Technology, launched the Blue Gene supercomputer in Cape Town last week.
The fastest supercomputer in Africa is intended for use by the entire continent and forms part of the Blue Gene for Africa initiative, which aims to promote scientific …