Tag: british
Budget hotel begins Africa roll-out in SA
London-based investment holding company Lonrho and British entrepreneur Sir
Stelios Haji-Ioannou's investment business, the easyGroup, have joined forces to
open their first African budget hotel in Johannesburg.
Gallery: Jacob Zuma’s UK state visit
See the highlights of South African President Jacob Zuma's three-day state visit to the UK, where he and his entourage met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Edward and other British luminaries.
• Zuma's 2010 plan of action
British wastewater firm enters SA
British wastewater treatment company Bluewater Bio has entered the South African market through an agreement with local firm Headstream Water Holdings - and the two are eyeing sub-Saharan expansion within the next 12 to 18 months.
British tourists turn to SA
The favourable exchange rate, a number of major sporting events, anticipation of the 2010 Fifa World Cup and South Africa’s reputation as a value-for-money destination are all helping to attract increasing numbers of UK tourists to the country.
UK boost for new anti-Aids drive
South Africa's revitalised drive against HIV/Aids has received a £15-million (around R230-million) boost from the British government.
Honouring black dead in Boer War
Over a hundred years later, black South Africans who died in the Anglo-Boer War are finally to be honoured, as part of an agreement between the UK and South Africa to renovate and maintain the graves of some 25 000 Commonwealth soldiers who lost their lives in the war.
Elton John opens kids’ centre
British singer/songwriter Elton John has opened a care centre in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg that runs life skills projects for orphaned, abused and neglected children.
