China opens World’s first “Underground Hotel”

Rocky project: Shanghai remodels quarry into “ground scrapper” Shanghai is building a huge underground hotel on the site of an abandoned quarry – and the project is finally nearing completion after ten years in the making and a few missed deadlines. The underground hotel is 67 meters below sea level, and it will have 17…

Visa related changes to make travel easier in South Africa

Statement by the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Malusi Gigaba MP, at the Media Briefing on Visa-related Reforms in Pretoria on 25 September 2018 At its ordinary meeting of 19 September 2018, Cabinet announced that a number of changes will be made to make it easier for tourists, business people and academia to come to…

The 700-calorie breakfast you should eat

The 700-calorie breakfast you should eat if you want to live forever, according to a futurist who spends $1 million a year on pills and eating right Inventor, entrepreneur, and futurist Ray Kurzweil.Wikipedia Google’s leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil, thinks his diet can help him live forever. He says he spends “a few thousand dollars per…

Drive dry, drive responsibly 

Listening to heart wrenching accounts of loss of life and paralysis in victims of car crashes, left me feeling saddened.  Many of us are guilty of drink driving without being responsible enough to know how alcohol impairs our actions.  I attended the Drive Dry Campaign launch last night and pledge to responsible driving.  Are you…