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What's News in SA? | SA, Swaziland in Major Rail Investment South African logistics group Transnet and Swaziland Railways have agreed to jointly develop a 146-kilometre railway line from Lothair in Mpumalanga to Sidvokodvo Junction in Swaziland, as well as upgrade the adjacent railway networks in both countries. Read more |  |  | JSE Outperforms Most Markets in 2011 Comparing year-end values, South Africa's stock exchange showed little movement overall in 2011, but held firm - and in doing so was one of the better performers in a turbulent year for equities worldwide, Moneyweb reports. Read more |
About the Rainbow Nation | People Over 47-million people with a wide variety of cultures, languages and religious beliefs. Welcome to the Rainbow Nation! Read more Sustainable development Development for "people, planet, prosperity" didn't start with the World Summit in South Africa. It didn't end there, either. Read more Education Private and public institutions, government policy, schools and universities, resources, links and more. Read more Geography and climate Two oceans, almost 3,000 kilometres of coastline, and massive geo- and biodiversity. Read more Government A constitutional democracy with three tiers - national, provincial and local government - each with their own executive authority. Read more |  | | More about South Africa |
Event – 6-7 February – Click Africa: Digital & Online Marketing Event, Johannesburg, South Africa |  Brands forged in the fire of social and digital marketing must be tempered to withstand the new and exciting challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies.
Click Africa will give you access to the top digital gurus at the cutting edge, their insights and solutions, and new perspectives on deriving the greatest possible benefit from your online campaigns and improve bottom-line. The conference will offer you the best speaker faculty with the latest insights and case studies from your industry peers. This event is a must attend for those in the digital marketing space, featuring best practice case study presentations. Click Africa will give you access to the top digital gurus at the cutting edge, their insights and solutions, and new perspectives on deriving the greatest possible benefit from your online campaigns and improve bottom-line. The conference will offer you the best speaker faculty with the latest insights and case studies from your industry peers. This event is a must attend for those in the digital marketing space, featuring best practice case study presentations. Don't get left behind! Find out how the top gurus are transforming their brands and improving customer satisfaction through digital and social marketing. Getting top-management buy-in for digital and social media campaigns can be tricky. Find out from your peers what solutions they've found for quantifying the ROI on these new marketing strategies. - Strengthen your brand by deploying cohesive and engaging digital campaigns;
- Hear from industry leaders who have successfully employed new media in their marketing strategies;
- Anticipate industry trends and upcoming technologies, and cater your strategy accordingly;
- Discover the impact of new legislation and regulation on the content and structure of your campaigns;
- Avoid the pitfalls of platform restrictions on building your online brand.
If you want to get in front of potential customers actively looking for suppliers and get the chance to have hundreds of face to face meetings in short period of time whilst also benefiting from brand exposure and thought leadership, then you must be at Click Africa 2012. http://www.iqpc.com/Event.aspx?id=615996 |
| Link up with South African Communities Abroad! |  | South African Communities Abroad Feeling a bit out of it? Want to connect with some people who know where you're coming from?
GGet some community away from home? Check out Brand South Africa's directory of websites, clubs, societies, newsletters and e-magazines for South Africans living abroad. Read more |
| Video - 'Would You Volunteer?' | 'Would You Volunteer?' |  Click here to watch! | About 1.2-million South Africans spent 379-million hours on volunteer work in the 12 months ending June 2011 - the equivalent of 182 351 people working full-time. South Africans were asked the question "Would you volunteer?" |
Global South Africans |
Join South Africa's Worldwide Brain Bank Global South Africans is a project to enlist the talent, experience and credibility of South Africans living abroad in support South Africa and its people at home. South Africans living or travelling abroad will very often be the first point of contact and reference for people overseas whose judgements and decisions have a profound impact on the fortunes of our country. Global South Africans can show the world what South Africans are made of, why we are worth investing in and partnering with and how we can help find creative solutions to the gamut of the world's problems, from poverty to climate change to inter-communal and regional conflict. By becoming part of the GSA network, you are saying you want to act as a "brand ambassador" for the country. You believe in South Africa, love the place and want to help us reach our full potential for the benefit of all our people and the continent of which we are part. If you would like to know more about or be part of the Global South Africans project and our online network, please click
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Missed these earlier articles on South Africa in ReConnect Africa? | | Optimising South Africa The Merchantec CEO Confidence Index suggests the bottoming out of confidence as South Africa's CEOs look toward a better year in 2012. Read more |  |
| WikiAfrica How WikiAfrica, an international collaboration, is set to change the selective, out-of-context and incomplete information on the Internet about Africa Read more |  |
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