The Sustainable Tourism Partnership Programme (STPP) road show addressing small businesses, and in particular, small accommodation establishments, kicked off in Potchefstroom last week. The next stage of the road show will visit Beaufort West, Knysna, Graaff-Reinet and Colesberg from 25 to 28 March

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South African companies and institutions stand to benefit from the invitation for international consortia to bid for early-stage work on the Square Kilometre Array, an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope, which will be co-hosted by South Africa and Australia.

Inset:  South Africa's seven-dish KAT-7 demonstrator radio telescope, located outside Carnarvon in the Northern Cape province. The KAT-7 is paving the way for the 80-dish Karoo Array Telescope (also known as the MeerKAT), due to be commissioned in 2014/15 as a precursor to the SKA – and as one of the most powerful telescopes in the world in its own right (Photo: SKA South Africa)

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South Africa has signed the Benguela Current Convention with Angola and Namibia to protect the marine ecosystem, the Environmental Affairs Department announced at the signing of the agreement in Angola on Monday.

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The controversial Lagoon Bay development proposal near George has won a challenge in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein with costs. But this is not an automatic green light for work to start on the R5bn golf estate project.

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Rodger Saunders, the blind Georgian who tackled the Argus Cycle tour on a tandem with his cycling mate and friend, Angus Anthony, was elated after pocketing his very first sport medal.

Inset: Rodger Saunders (left) and Angus Anthony with their Argus medals. They completed the race in five hours.

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Thomas Aiken captured the second European Tour title of his career on Sunday, winning the Avantha Masters in New Delhi, India to become the sixth South African winner in just 12 tournaments on the European Tour so far this season.

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Volkswagen South Africa opened a state-of-the-art, R500-million press shop at its manufacturing plant in the Eastern Cape on Friday. The company has invested R5-billion in modernising the plant over the past five years, making it one of the most energy-efficient in the southern hemisphere.

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South African food service group Famous Brands has plans to expand into India through the launch of five pilot Debonairs restaurants in Mumbai in July, with Diwa Hospitality as its master licence partner to manage and grow the business.

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Stellenbosch University’s Standard Bank Centre for Agribusiness Leadership and Mentorship Development will receive a further boost in the form of increased investment from its key strategic partner Standard Bank, it was announced on Thursday 14 March. Standard Bank will increase its investment in the Centre from R3.45 million over the past three years to R5.13 million over the next three years.

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Growth of black owners in South Africa's property market has more than doubled in the last 10 years, with a marked increase in female-only ownership, according to property data provider Lightstone.

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Following the birth of an 82kg-baby girl on March 5, the Knysna Elephant Park has had a very eventful week.  The youngster, now called Fiela, was born after a rapid labour to 10-year-old Thandi. Thandi is the daughter of 20-year-old Nandi, which makes Fiela the very welcome third generation at the park.

Inset:  The Knysna Elephant Park has named Thandi's baby Fiela in honour of a very special guest who has been visiting the Park for the last 14 years - Hannelie Potgieter. Potgieter's nickname is Fiela and she is called the Elephant Mother by all who know her, because of her for elephants. She was present on the night of Fiela's birth, only a few hours before her own birthday. Another reason why this relationship is so special is that the elephants helped to diagnose Potgieter's cancer.

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South African technology company Tellumat has opened a fully modernised electronics factory in Atlantis north of Cape Town, following a multi-million rand investment supported by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Industrial Development Corporation.

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Samsung unveiled a slim, feature-rich Galaxy S4 on Thursday as its new champion to take on Apple in the fiercely competitive smartphone arena. The South Korean consumer electronics giant introduced the Galaxy S4 on the stage of New York City's Radio City Music Hall and said the smartphones would roll out in 155 countries in late April. Pricing was not disclosed.

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Kevin Evans, South Africa's most prolific Cape Epic podium finisher, predicts that the 2013 event will see the cross-country specialists battling for early ascendancy, with experience becoming the key factor later on in the eight-day race, which starts at Meerendal, Durbanville on Sunday.

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South Africa's olive industry has enjoyed a recent growth spurt and has the potential to expand even further, with a slowdown in Spanish production boosting demand for the local product, says Pam Golding Properties manager in the Karoo region, Wayne Rubidge.

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Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson is currently in Johannesburg working on his latest film. A keen golfer, he couldn't pass up an invitation to take part in the Telkom PGA Championship Pro-Am at Country Club Johannesburg on Tuesday

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The George Radio Flyers Club is hosting a radio control air show for giant scale model aeroplanes this weekend, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March at the George Radio Flyers airfield.

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Square Kilometre Array South Africa is joining IBM and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy in a four-year collaboration to tackle the "big data" challenge posed by the SKA - and in the process to lay the foundation for what is expected to be a completely new era in computing

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South African travel company andBeyond's Phinda private game reserve in KwaZulu- Natal is involved in a groundbreaking deal to translocate six white rhino to Botswana's Okavango Delta as a measure to protect the endangered species

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Research released on Monday shows patterns from these Facebook preferences can provide surprisingly accurate estimates of the user's race, age, IQ, sexuality and other personal information.

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