As 2010 FIFA World Cup ends, Student Village together with the Keep Flying campaign are encouraging you to support charities with clothes and flags and to keep up the good cheer in South Africa, we can sport Keep Flying buttons and our flags for another month.
Keep Flying is a simple idea. An idea that matters. And an idea that belongs to all of us. It believes that its all of our responsibility to fly the flag and to recognize what the flag symbolizes: Us, and our unity. A unity …

The Gautrain has officially gone live – with the first train leaving at 5:30 this morning from the Sandton Station to OR Tambo International Airport.
Technical glitches in the system have now been resolved and the train is running smoothly between its Sandton, Malboro and Rhodesfield Stations.  A trip to the airport will cost R100 for commuters who are going to catch a flight at the airport – and will take less than 15 minutes for the train which travels at around 160km/h.
The high speed train – offers commuters a chance …

This time last year the cast members of The Bang Bang Club jetted into the Cannes Film Festival, after wrapping up the shoot the movie in South Africa. Now the movie hitting Mzansi’s shores…
The Bang Bang Club is a drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.
The film is fast-paced, has great music and reflects a certain time – and a certain view of apartheid – and zooms in on some of the people of the era. Veteran photographer …

Start learning the soccer-based moves of South Africa’s diski dance and you’ll start feeling the rhythm of African football – and the energy and passion that’s in store for the world at the Soccer World Cup!

In the unfortunate event of an emergency requiring the services of medical rescue, police, the fire brigade and types of disaster management, a series of national emergency telephone numbers have been allocated to service the public.
Here are some of the applicable emergency numbers in South Africa.
Police Flying Squad:  10111

Ambulances: 10177
Netcare 911 (private medical rescue service): 082 911
Cellphone Emergency: 112
Here are some of the South African emergency help lines specific to major urban areas:

Call Centre
Fire/
Ambulance
Metro Police
Water
Electricity

Joburg
011 375-5555
011 375-5911
011 490-1510
011 688-1500
0800111550

Pretoria
012 358-2111
012 358-6330
012 358-7095
0123582111
0801111556

Durban
031 311-1111
031 361-0000
031 361-0000
0801313013
031 3281200

Port Elizabeth
041 …

So like, what’s this going on in our country?

First it was ANC Youth League President Julius Malema’s “Kill the Boer” statements. Then it the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terrblanche at his farm. This caused an uproar at the court case of those accused of his murder, with episodes of racial divisions and fighting in Ventersdorp.
Now the drama continues to trickle…
Pandemonium broke out at the e.tv studios on Wednesday when AWB secretary general André Visagie had a bitter confrontation with a political commentator.

Visagie ,who stormed out of the studio, …

29 South African beaches were awarded Blue Flags, an international indicator of high environmental standards for recreational beaches in 2009.

“South Africa is probably the leading economy in the world.” (CNBC Europe)

South Africa’s Rand is the second best-performing emerging market currency of the 26 monitored by Bloomberg in 2009

With two gold medals and one silver medal, South Africa ended the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in ninth position on the …

This is the call to all South Africans to mark 100 days to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Several parties have been planned parties for today. Taking the lead is South African Tourism, which has hooked up with the Johannesburg Tourism Company to celebrate the 100-day mark. Phumulani Hlathswayo, an events manager at the national group, says they plan to bring Sandton to a standstill. “Two branded buses will leave the South African Tourism offices for a tour around Sandton. The tour will end in Maud Street, where a street party …