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The monsoon rains responsible for rendering millions of people homeless across northern India and Pakistan turned the grounds of PRS (Prithvi Raj Singh) 'Biki' Oberoi's 55-acre estate on the fringe [...]

Johannesburg Also known as Egoli or The City of Gold, it is the epicentre of South Africa's financial services industry. But Melanie Friedman, manager of Standard Bank's pan-African executive recruitment, [...]

South Africa Margaret O'Connor finds many candidates shun the country - but those that visit are keen to stay The positive picture of South Africa painted during this year's football [...]

Nigeria Margaret O'Connor hears two views on the best use of talent Nigeria is a nation of entrepreneurs and this month's celebrations of 50 years of independence provided an occasion [...]

Johannesburg Margaret O'Connor on the commercial capital's grand transport ambitions The abundance of fast cars, fake breasts, and sunshine and the paucity of quick, safe, and reliable public transport in [...]

Living within walking distance of football's World Cup stadiums in Cape Town and Johannesburg, Marco van Embden and Connie Gotami inhabit radically different universes. But they share an enthusiasm for [...]

Venture capital Margaret O'Connor considers constraints on a new wave of entrepreneurs South Africa-born astronaut, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Mark Shuttleworth's recent decision to bow out of venture capital (VC) financing [...]

TB and Aids Margaret O'Connor on efforts to integrate treatment in South Africa National treatment guidelines that take effect in South Africa on April 1 will make antiretrovirals (ARVs) available [...]

As a director of engineering conglomerate Arup in China, Rory McGowan has collaborated with some of the world's leading architects to reshape the Beijng skyline in the build-up to the [...]

Mary Higgins Clark has sold more than 100m copies of 28 novels in the past three decades. The elegant 82-year-old Irish-American splits her time between a mansion in Saddle River, [...]

The corrugated iron and scrap shacks scarring the Johannesburg landscape in the recent sci-fi film District 9 embody stereotypes about where the South African poor live. But the country's selfappointed [...]

Alexandra Fuller, author of 'Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight', has shifted her focus from the Zimbabwean landscape and politics that shaped her young life to the plains of [...]

Winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects' inaugural Lubetkin Prize for his work on the Red Location Museum in New Brighton, South Africa, Jo Noero, 57, aims to create [...]

Entrepreneurship How often does a hangover give rise to a great business idea? For Don St Pierre Sr, it was one of the factors behind the success of ASC Fine [...]

Relaxing in the sun-flooded lounge of his Newington Village home in Sydney, Chuck Ow Lee can expect a moment of deja vu while watching the inevitable human interest story about [...]

Name: Wangechi Mutu Age: 33 Occupation: Artist. Born in: Nairobi, Kenya Now living in: Brooklyn, New York Buddha the cat guards my home. She's also the resident mousetrap, ghostbuster and [...]

Ram Charan's wheeled suitcase functions as a virtual home. The 67-year-old management consultant and writer of business books sleeps in five-star hotels every night of the week, every week of [...]

Geoffrey Murray, executive chef at Zachary's Restaurant at the Pezula Hotel and Spa in Kynsna, South Africa, was born to American air force parents in Rome, New York, 43 years [...]

Award-winning Dutch-born Margot Janse lives in a French Huguenot village in the Cape winelands of South Africa with fellow chef Duncan Doherty and their three-year-old son, Thomas. The 38-year-old trained [...]

Born in Michigan, US, Rachel DeWoskin studied Chinese at university before moving to Beijing in 1994. There, she landed a leading role in a nighttime soap opera that was watched [...]

Salvatore Sarno, chairman of MSC Shipping, and his wife, Sandra, are behind South Africa's first bid for the America's Cup. The Salerno natives mortgaged their Durban home to secure the [...]

The scent of a colourful 'yesterday, today, tomorrow' bush is the first thing that hits you as you walk out of Elisabeth Bradley's art-filled Johannesburg home into her terraced garden. [...]

Charles Back is a pioneering third-generation winemaker who turned the family hobby into some of South Africa's best-known wine brands: Fairview, Goats Do Roam and Spice Route. Your search for [...]

The Zulu Mama chair is both comfortable and striking, with a sleek stainless steel frame and an egg-shaped seat hand-woven from recycled plastic strips in a riotous range of colours, [...]

Seduced by the prospect of earning Pounds 15,000 from British holidaymakers over Christmas last year, my husband and I put our Cape Town holiday home on the rental market. We [...]

Curlew Lodge (pictured), the four-chalet holiday complex the Read, Rattray, Shields and Joubert families built in the Vilankulo Wildlife Sanctuary, looks like it a set for a Robinson Crusoe sequel. [...]

The lethal combination of a 16-year civil war and debilitating floods made Mozambique a no-go zone for almost a generation. As a result, much of its 1,600km Indian Ocean coastline [...]

Welcome to the fun house,' Janet Catherine says with a shy smile. Behind her is her husband, Norman, one of South African's most prodigious painters and sculptors, grinning like a [...]

Hawkers throng Johannesburg's traffic-clogged intersections selling everything from Barbie school bags to bush real estate. When my husband and I were shopping for a home for our growing family, I [...]