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Good news from South Africa

SA restaurant in food Oscars
Household survey shows positive trends
Mandela comic book wins American award

• Breakthrough system to boost passport control
• Wits to open its own art museum
• Celebrating our national heroes
• Clinton praises SA for 16 years of freedom
• Gauteng residents get behind national HIV campaign
• SA surfer wins at global surfing awards
• Mayor plants 200 000th tree

• 29 South African beaches were awarded Blue Flags, an international indicator of high environmental standards for recreational beaches in 2009.
• "South Africa is probably the leading economy in the world." (CNBC Europe)
• South Africa’s Rand is the second best-performing emerging market currency of the 26 monitored by Bloomberg in 2009
• With two gold medals and one silver medal, South Africa ended the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in ninth position on the medals table, ahead of the likes of  Australia, Cuba, China and France.
• South Africa sold $1.8 billion worth of cars to the US last year, putting us ahead of Sweden and Italy as suppliers to the US market.
• In 2009, the Springboks become the first international team to be World Champions in both 15-a-side and Sevens rugby.
• In 2009, Time magazine named two South Africans in their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
• The International Monetary Forum's World Economic Outlook ranks us in the top 10% of counties in respect of Real GDP Growth Projections for 2010.