GDP per Capita R11,200 R75,000 (2.6 % up in real terms) Wages average R28,350 R176,600 (9.3% up in real terms) Social Grants 2.4 million people 15.8 million people In order to prove my hypothesis, I ...

South Africa makes it into foreign expats’ top 20 countries to raise kids. According to a survey by an international website InterNations, South Africa rates as one of the Top 20 best countries in the ...

“When I opened my eyes, the world was pristine. It had just been born and I was seeing it for the very first time. I walked around in wonderment, licking shells, staring at algae on the rocks and ...

Ask Shepherd Macothoza how old he is and he’ll answer “That depends”. Born in Khayelitsha in 1979, Shepherd’s family lost their possessions – including his birth certificate – in the township riots in ...

The Cape Town City Hall is being transformed into a multi-venue theatre, pop-up restaurant and coffee shop, as the Cape Town Fringe prepares to launch a Festival of theatre, dance, music, comedy and ...

UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has named Neo Mohlatlole, Business Development Director at Seven Colors Communications, as one of the five talented exhibition professionals ...

South Africa has, in three years, become the largest wind power producer on the continent, generating 1.4 GW of electricity from 600 wind turbines. COPYRIGHT South Africa - The Good News. All rights ...

South African banks Absa and FNB have introduced biometric identification and verification system at their branches as part of an industry-wide initiative that will allow the country’s banks to ...

Jamaica’s deputy commissioner of police, Glenmore Hinds, (left), Head of Crime Line, Yusuf Abramjee and President of Crime Stoppers International, Michael Gordon Gibson at the opening ceremony in ...

The traditional single-use packaging is a real environmental problem today. The easiest solution is simply to reduce them in our everyday life. Nevertheless, sometimes you have to use packaging… so do ...

With so much two way air traffic, the mystery of “overseas” has dissipated. But as I have found in regular visits back to South Africa, the relative cost of living between countries is still a lively ...

There are occasions when we hear (quite often actually) that we in SA are ‘the worst in the world’ and this or that. There are 235 countries in the world, does that mean we come 235 th? or near the ...