Soweto full house for vital Springbok test

"You arrived with open minds. And embraced the spirit of Africa ..." South Africa thanks all the teams and fans who visited the country "for helping make the 2010 Fifa World Cup one the world will never forget".

The South African Revenue Service is modernising the country's customs processes to improve its service for tax-compliant traders while making it easier to identify illegal and illicit trade.

South African juniors won gold, silver and bronze medals on the opening day of the UCI BMX World Championships in Pietermaritzburg, with nine-year-old Johannesburg schoolgirl Georgina Grassie being crowned world champion.

Local financial services group Sanlam has launched iTrade, a new offering that gives South Africa's online traders access to foreign listed instruments on 16 global stock exchanges, allowing investors to easily diversify their portfolios and giving them access to some of the most traded companies globally.