Culture and history
SA fashion goes to New York
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- 30 January 2009
Stoned Cherrie, a top South African fashion label, has received a prestigious opportunity to break into the international fashion scene. This comes after an invitation to showcase its work at New York’s Fashion Week.
Mrs Ball’s Chutney comes home
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- 21 January 2009
Mrs HS Ball’s Chutney is an iconic South African taste, a sweet and spicy sauce up there with biltong and boerewors. Now the great-grandson of the original Mrs Ball has restarted his forebear’s cottage industry, making the chutney from the authentic recipe.
Mandela's letter to Obama
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- 21 January 2009
"You will always be in our affection as a young man who dared to dream and to pursue that dream," Nelson Mandela wrote in a letter congratulating Barack Obama on his inauguration.
SA celebrates with Obama
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- 20 January 2009
As the United States comes to a standstill on 20 January to witness the inauguration of its 44th president Barack Obama, South Africa has planned its own series of celebrations.
Ode to the African chicken
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- 19 January 2009
Chickens are a central feature of rural village life, and people carry them around by their necks, by their feet, in boxes tied onto bicycles, in straw baskets on their heads. I even saw a woman carrying one in her very fashionable green leather handbag, writes Bridget Hilton-Barber.
Saru one of world's top two
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- 23 December 2008
The South African Rugby Union has successfully managed to overcome controversy and uncertainty to be named by the International Rugby Board as the second-best rugby administration in the world.
Kick start for rugby programme
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- 09 December 2008
Rugby fans in both hemispheres are looking forward to the British and Irish Lions’ tour of South Africa in 2009. Now the tour’s main partner HSBC has launched a schools rugby initiative that includes a drive to supply underprivileged South African children with rugby equipment.
