SA the Good News Check SA Goodnews no 242 13 December 2009 on http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/newsletter_archive/the_best_of_2009_2.html And from Project 2010 Issue 165 18 Dec 2009 2009 will be remembered as the year that South Africa staked its claim to hosting a successful 2010 World Cup. Certainly, the past 12 months have marked an extraordinary turnaround in the preparations […]
Read More »LOCATION OF SOCCER TEAMS 2010 WORLD CUP Because of the advantage of training at high altitude, Gauteng is definitely favoured. The Australian team – the Socceroos –will base themselves at the Kloofzicht Lodge in the Zwartkops Mountains between Johannesburg and Pretoria. About a 45 minutes drive from both cities, they will be close to the […]
Read More »South Africa: the Good News ‘Good at the extraordinary but not so good at the ordinary’ is a quote from Albie Sachs, the retired Constitutional Court Judge and former activist in the freedom movement. South Africa always gets notoriously bad press. I think I can safely say that the majority of my guests who have never […]
Read More »ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP Alexandra Township, commonly known as Alex is a mere 4 km from the heart of the wealthy CBD of Sandton. Home to some 350-400,000 people it covers an area of about 28 square km. (Compare this to Soweto’s +/- 150 sq kms and ca 1.7 million people.) Present day Alex is divided roughly […]
Read More »ON SAFARI IN KRUGER PARK Little beats a week-end in the bush. Spent 4 nights in the Kruger National Park in early August at a bush camp called Talamati in the central area of the Park, west of the big main camp Satara. August is the best time for the Kruger Park as it is […]
Read More »Southern Sun Hotel Hyde Park Due to open in September, construction of the new Southern Sun hotel above the Hyde Park shopping centre is moving ahead fast. A joint venture with Hyprop Investments who own Hyde Park shopping centre, the development is said to have a budget of R180 million. A 60 seater restaurant, whiskey […]
Read More »Supplied by SA Tourism in ‘SA Tourism Monthly Product Newsletter’ June 2009 Historically, SA Tourism has always reported on total visitor arrivals (excluding workers and contract workers), because they were not able to remove day visitors from overnight visitors (tourists) from the data released by Stats SA. The release of the January 2009 tourism figures marked […]
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