Mandela Sports Day: 'celebrate unity'

Brand South Africa has called on sport and music fans to use the Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture Day to "celebrate our oneness as a nation". More than 50 000 tickets for the event, taking place at Johannesburg's FNB Stadium on Saturday, have already been sold.

Marikana: 'time for us to pull together'

The government has called for calm as South Africa marks the first anniversary of the Marikana tragedy, saying it was a time for the nation to pull together and work to ensure that the events of 16 August 2012 never again took place "in any shape or form".

PetroSA opens new geoscience centre

State oil company PetroSA has opened a state-of-the-art geoscience collaboration, visualisation and technology centre that will help guide its oil and gas explorations while providing a training ground for South Africa's next generation of upstream professionals.

SA to host BRICS Business Council

Business leaders from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of countries, as well as 19 other African countries, will converge in Johannesburg next week for the first meeting of the BRICS Business Council.

Free tablets, wi-fi for Gauteng schools

Gauteng's 2 200 public schools will have access to uncapped wi-fi and 3G connectivity and 88 000 Huawei tablets will be distributed to students from next year as part of the province's e-Learning Solution.

First MeerKAT telescope foundation laid

The concrete for the first MeerKAT antenna foundation was poured at South Africa's Square Kilometre Array site in the Northern Cape on Wednesday. The 64-dish MeerKAT, a precursor to the SKA, will come on line in 2016 as one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.