National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel has been appointed as a member of the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing.

South Africa’s Capitec Bank is the only African brand to crack the list
of “Great Brands of Tomorrow”, issued by the renowned Swiss-based
financial services group Credit Suisse.

South Africa’s La Colombe has been named the 12th best restaurant in
the world, and the best restaurant in the Middle East and Africa, in
the 2010 edition of the prestigious S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best
Restaurants list.

A graphic novel depicting the life of Nelson Mandela has won an American award for children’s literature. Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book won the 2010 Best Book for Older Readers in the Children’s Africana Book Awards from the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA).

A recreated South African landscape, on show at the British Museum until
October 2010, is giving Londoners a taste of the country’s rich
biodiversity, and expats a taste of home.

Early last Saturday morning Mandy Ramsden was on top of the world.
Literally. The South African mountaineer had just reached the 8
848-metre summit of Mount Everest. And she had plenty to be excited
about. Not only is she now the second South African woman to climb
Everest, she is also the first South African – indeed, African – woman
to have climbed the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the
world’s seven continents.

South Africans pledged nearly $100,000 (about R760 513) to help Haiti’s
earthquake survivors during a telethon hosted by the state broadcaster
on Thursday.

Gregory Nott, the lawyer who has been defending Caster Semenya pro bono, has won the Lawyer of the Year award at the Legal Business Awards 2010 that took place on February 11th at a gala ceremony in London.

Despite Britain’s disapproval of President Zuma’s polymagous ways,
Africa’s man of the moment seems to have quietened his British media
critics during his three day visit to South Africa’s closest European
ally.

The president can be seen in photographs of his visit, totally at ease signing
autographs with scholars, smiling broadly while presenting Queen
Elizabeth with a handcrafted South African chess set, and charming
photographers with his grin outside the state banquet at Buckingham
Palace held on Wednesday evening. There are few photographs of the president not smiling.

While President Zuma engaged with Britain’s most important people, the wife that
accompanied him, Thobeka Madiba-Zuma was at ease in her chic outfits
and at one point shared a coach with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh.

South African entrepreneur and philanthropist, Marc Lubner, has been presented with a Global Recognition for Philanthropy Award by the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a global network of business leaders in over 100 countries.