More than 17 000 people from around the world have entered a contest to become a panda keeper for a month in China, organisers said on Friday, less than two weeks after the competition was launched.


Inset: In safe hands: More than 17 000 people from around the world have entered a contest to become a panda keeper for a month in China. (Photo: AP)

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The US networking giant Cisco has made an offer to acquire the Internet communications firm Skype, according to reports.

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The protracted public servants’ strike continued yesterday with Cosatu and the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) declaring a “preliminary” rejection of the government’s latest pay offer.

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Next year’s Dias Festival, which will be held in Mossel Bay from the 3rd to the 6th of February, will be coordinated by Juanita Pienaar.

Inset: Members of the Dias Festival Joint Organising Committee (JOC) - from left: Dias Museum Complex manager Mbulelo Mrubata, Festival coordinator Juanita Pienaar, and Dias Museum Management Committee chairman, Harold Miller.

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Buy the sticker, dress differently, let your hair down! South Africans have been urged to help support people with disabilities by taking part in Casual Day on Friday, 3 September.

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President Jacob Zuma was again accused by the opposition on Wednesday of covering up the involvement of senior ANC officials in a scandal that saw companies pay bribes to the regime of Saddam Hussein to secure contracts under the United Nations Food-for-Oil Programme.

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Two highly-ranked International Sailing Federation (Isaf) coach trainers are in Mossel Bay to show South Africa’s entry-level coach assessors the ropes.

Inset: (From left) Isaf trainer Rich Percy, schools sail training consultant Hannah Percy, Isaf training and development manager Dan Jaspers and South African Sailing’s national training manager Rob Holden. (Photo: The Herald)

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A long night of negotiation between trade union leaders and Public Service Minister Richard Baloyi, under instruction from President Jacob Zuma, has produced a draft settlement offer that could bring an end to South Africa's near two-week long public service strike.

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South Africa's largest mobile phone group Vodacom is teaming up with Nedbank to deliver a phone-based cash transfer service, similar to a successful service operating in Kenya.

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According to a report today from Cricket South Africa, South African batsman AB de Villiers is ranked the No. 1 batsman in the world on the Reliance Mobile ICC One Day International (ODI) rankings.

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Foreign Visa card spending reached R3.1 billion during the lead-up to, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

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Staff at Mossel Bay’s Dias Museum have come up with a 500-year- old solution to saving the complex’s ethno-botanic garden, which includes a Braille trail, under threat from the prolonged drought

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Members of the SA Whale Disentanglement Network and boaters in St Francis Bay and Port Elizabeth have been alerted to keep an eye out for a whale entangled in netting.

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A body-surfer was taken to hospital at the weekend after experiencing difficulties at The Wedge in Plettenberg Bay.

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Knysna’s Team Colorpress won the Lipton Cup Challenge in Table Bay, Cape Town, at the weekend – a bonus for the Knysna Yachting Club, which celebrated its 100th birthday on Saturday.

Winners:  Team Colorpress has won the Lipton Cup Challenge. They are (from left) Jerry Heggie, Dave Rae, Gareth Blankenberg, Greg Davis, Hein de Jamaer and Bruce McCurrach, holding the cup. (The Herald)

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A fun fishing trip turned into a day of terror for a party of six when their boat was hit by a huge wave and started sinking off the coast of Port Elizabeth.

Ordeal at Sea: In this photo taken with a cellphone camera, a National Sea Rescue Institute vessel tows the fishing boat, Nikki, back to Ngqura harbour after it nearly sank on Saturday. A crew member stands on hand with an axe prepared to cut the line in case the vessel should start to pull the rescue boat under.

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South Africa and China, which operates the largest high-speed rail network in the world, have signed an agreement that seeks to promote co-operation, trade and investment in rail projects between the two countries

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"We will not make a mistake again of voting into power our worst political butchers," says Cosatu Secretary-General Zwelinzima Vavi at a rally.

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A Knysna man yesterday presented documents in court which he said proved that he could not have coerced a girl aged 15 into having sex.

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The price of all grades of petrol will drop by 10 cents a litre on Wednesday, the energy department said on Friday (August 27).

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