This year's Nederburg Auction, 3-4 September 2010, is offering 5720 cases of 164 wines, including some rare heritage vintages from the 1970s, in commemoration of the auction's beginnings in 1975. 30 Jun 2010
SAITEX (The Southern African International Trade Exhibition) is offering a half-day workshop that is a business briefing for suppliers of goods and services looking to enter the southern and eastern African markets, as well as interested investors for these markets. The briefing takes place on 27 July 2010 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand. 30 Jun 2010
Deola Sagoe's new spring/Summer Collection will be shown for the first time in South Africa at Africa Fashion Week on 30 June at Sandton Convention Centre. The House of Deola Sagoe was established in 1989 and is currently headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. She has been nominated for a prestigious African Fashion Award on 5 July 2010, cementing her place amongst Africa's best fashion icons. 30 Jun 2010
South Africa's foreign trade balance with its non-Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) trading partners is expected to have reached a R2.5 billion deficit in May from the R1.9 billion deficit of April, according to a survey by I-Net Bridge. 29 Jun 2010
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Monday, 28 June 2010, urged tea-producing countries to increase income from the crop by marketing the drink more heavily at home and publicising the health benefits of the beverage abroad. 29 Jun 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, US: Amazon.com has updated its Kindle application allowing audio and video clips to be embedded in electronic books served up on Apple's popular iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch gadgets. 29 Jun 2010
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has stepped up its efforts to protect the local clothing industry by introducing measures aimed at regulating clothing imports, mainly from China. 29 Jun 2010
The Competition Commission has referred its findings of price fixing against 28 bicycle wholesalers and retailers to the Tribunal for adjudication. 29 Jun 2010
Ster-Kinekor will open its first 3D cinema in Limpopo in 2011 as part of its six state-of-the-art cinemas with full digital sound in the Polokwane Mall of the North shopping centre. The cinema complex is 2100m2, seats 996 patrons and is expected to create employment for between 15 and 20 people. 29 Jun 2010
A sculpture, Celebrate FIFA World Cup 2010, has gone on auction through bidorbuy to raise funds for the South African Institute for Traumatic Stress. The metal sculpture features a football boot, a ball, referee's whistle and - of course - a vuvuzela. The final piece measures 200 x 150 x 75 centimetres and weighs 80 kilograms. 29 Jun 2010
Woolworths has launched a range of yoghurts made with traditional African botanicals including baobab, buchu and rooibos and paired with South African fruits. In keeping with the group's Good business journey goals (and like its other yoghurts) they are packed in recyclable containers and the buchu & baobab extracts have been sustainably sourced. The yoghurts contain HOWARU probiotic cultures, which are clinically proven to stimulate the immune system and aid lactose digestion when eaten regularly. 29 Jun 2010
When a Soweto grandmother took up knitting three years ago she never imagined that it would improve the livelihood of other elderly women in her community. 28 Jun 2010
FLORENCE, ITALY: Gucci and Fendi, two of Italy's largest fashion brands are launching their first full children's collections, entering a sector that has weathered the global downturn better than others. 28 Jun 2010
PARIS, FRANCE: You know times have changed when French wines, bruised by competition from the "New World", fight back with the upstarts' own weapon, dropping complex regional labeling for the plain old grape name. 28 Jun 2010
Johannesburg and Cape Town will grow in size by 2020 to rank along with the largest emerging market cities, with consumer-spending markets that will be a magnet for investment by consumer-goods companies, a report on the continent's growing economies predicts. 28 Jun 2010
The international Melissa Odabash beachwear and swimwear is now available in South Africa at Scalini boutique 14 Jarvis Street, De Waterkant, Cape Town. Prior to launching her first collection, Melissa was living and modelling in Italy for top Italian designers. 28 Jun 2010
Internet Solutions, provider of AlwaysOn hot spots, has integrated PayPal into its online checkout to give customers another quick and easy way to pay for high-speed wireless internet access. 28 Jun 2010
KWV completed a baseline study in 2008 to determine its carbon footprint and immediately several carbon reduction strategies were explored - and one of them involved planting trees. 28 Jun 2010
The SA Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), Shopping Centre Benchmark Indicators 1998-2009, by retail researcher Dirk Prinsloo, has been released and it highlights the diverse roles and positions that centres play in their locations and communities. 28 Jun 2010
The Kasteelberg range will become the flagship range of wines for Riebeek Cellar, which produced its first Méthod Cap Classique, Kasteelberg MCC in 2007. 28 Jun 2010
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