By Sibongile Khumalo
December 02, 2008 SOUTH Africa's world champion rugby team might not be the Springboks any more, after an impassioned national debate on changing the 102-year-old emblem which critics say smacks of the apartheid era.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Advertising executive Penny Holt loves her native South Africa but power cuts, a murky political climate and widespread violent crime made her think about leaving the nation she once viewed as a beacon of hope.

JOHANNESBURG - Late yesterday seven South Africans were still trapped in the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, India, following the terrorist attacks that left over 125 people dead, the Foreign Affairs Department said.

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 27 (Reuters) - South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma said on Thursday national elections would be held in the first quarter of 2009 and pledged there would be no major changes to the government's pro-growth policies.

A leading South African scientist has warned that gross underinvestment in water management has left it at risk of a cholera outbreak.