The revolutionary role of social media. Has Tunisia and the events that followed empowered and emboldened ordinary citizens, now armed with social media solutions, to make a stand for their basic human rights?

The generation and distribution of electricity is vital to the sustainable growth and development in South Africa. Sharon Davis finds out whether Eskom’s plans are sufficient to meet the country’s growing electricity needs and carbon footprint goals.

The importance of water for economic growth in South Africa, a largely semi-arid country, was recognised as early as the 1960s when the government started an extensive dam-building programme on our major rivers to ensure a regular water supply for both agriculture and industry. South Africa’s future growth is going to be constrained as much by water, as the availability of electricity. Sharon Davis tells us more.

The warm waters of the Indian Ocean, sunny sands and mild winters turn the KwaZulu-Natal coastline into a scene of migration between May and July. Many flock to the welcoming waters and hospitable beaches… and we're not just talking people.

Every year a seething silver mass of sardines travel up the east coast of South Africa, moving north.

Arguably Africa's most famous modern-day explorer Holgate set off on his first epic journey with his wife, Gill, and son, Ross, in 1993. The mission before them was to travel from Cape to Cairo, but with an additional element of tackling the route in open inflatable boats on inland waterways with back-up vehicles.

As has become a hallmark of all Holgate's trips, they filled a beaded calabash with water from Cape Point and took it with them across the waterways of Africa facing bandits, wildlife and malaria.

HIV/AIDS policies and programmes disregard the sexual needs of people living with the virus, claim a number of HIV-positive women who attended the third Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights held in Nigeria on 8 Feb 2008.

Set in the pulsing heart of the Zulu Kingdom, stretching over 96 000 hectares from Imfolozi in the south up to a hilly Hluhluwe in the north, the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve (slightly more than two hours drive from Durban) is not only the oldest game park in Africa, but one that can be regarded as KwaZulu-Natal's jewel of conservation.

Sailors tell of a phantom ship, first seen at the turn of the last century, sailing towards Durban’s harbour. Stevedores noticed it at dusk, rounding the Bluff headland, with just one blue-green light swinging at the fore. They waited for the small steamship – but it never arrived!

A few weeks later it was seen again; a little closer to shore, moving slowly, with the same eerie blue-green light. It had no name, failed to answer any signals, and no flags flew… it wasn’t long before it was known as the phantom ship.