2009 the year when...


Internationally.... • In the worst aviation disaster since 2001, Air France Flight 447 disappears off the northeast coast of Brazil with 228 people on board, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.


• Japan’s opposition party, the Democrats, win in a landslide over the ruling Liberal Democrats, who have been in power nearly uninterrupted for a half-century.


• Hundreds of thousands of people watched in front of the Capitol as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are sworn into office. Obama makes history as the first African-American president.


• President Barack Obama announces that the U.S., China, India, Brazil, and South Africa have reached an agreement to combat global warming.


2010 the year when...


Internationally... • Magnitude earthquake devastates Port-au- Prince, Haiti.


• Volcanic Ash from Iceland disrupts travel plans across Europe.


• Picasso painting sells for record-setting $106.5 million.


• Biggest oil spill in history; estimates suggest that 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil per day were spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.


• Spain wins the 2010 Soccer World Cup.


• Russia bans grain export in response to drought, wildfires.


• 1,600 estimated dead in Pakistan floods. • World’s tallest building opens in Dubai.


• The Eurozone and the IMF agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece.


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• President Obama declares the outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus, also called swine flu, a national emergency.


• Scientists find water on the Moon during NASA’s Lcross misson.


• The passing away of Corazon Aquino, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson.


In South Africa... • ANC wins general election.


• Parliament elects Jacob Zuma as president.


• First Mandela Day organised on Nelson Mandela’s 91st Birthday.


• Gill Marcus is appointed Governor of the South African Reserve Bank.


• Van der Burgh won gold in the 50 metres at the World Championships in Rome


• Ladysmith Black Mambazo scoop their third Grammy.


• Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, one of the world’s leading 800 metres runnersg gold for the mens race gets at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin


• Caster Semenya wins a gold medal in the final of the Women’s 800m race at during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin


• Graeme Pollock voted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame.


• The Film Skin, first UK / South Africa co- production is released and goes to win 19 international film Awards.


2009 20th Anniversary Boss of the Year®


Finalists


• Vice Admiral Johannes Mudimu, Chief of the South African Navy, South African Navy.


• Khalipha Eddie Mbalo, CEO, National Film & Video Foundation.


• Neil Harris, Director: Customer and Product Support, Cummins South Africa.


• Kalyani Pillay, CEO, SABRIC.


• Abiel Morake Mngomezulu, CEO/President, Mintek


2009 Boss of the Year® Titlebearer


• Ian Heyns, General Manager, Great Noligwa mine in the Free State.


• The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.


In South Africa... • South Africa’s most important year since 1994. President Jacob Zuma called on all South Africans to work together and


make the 2010 Fifa World Cup “one of the most successful projects we have ever undertaken as a nation”.


• King Shaka International Airport in Durban opened, replacing Durban International Airport.


• Successful 2010 FIFA World Cup held.


• Major new fossil find in South Africa by Dr Lee Berger in the Malapa Caves (near Sterkfontein) made known.


• Desmond Tutu retires from public life.


• Deaths of Harry Schwarz, Eugene Terre’Blanche, Sheena Duncan, King Matanzima and Frederik van Zyl Slabbert.


• Natalie du Toit confirmed her status as one of paralympic sport’s all-time greats when she won the women’s 50 metres freestyle at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.


• South Africa’s Stacey-Lee Chan wins best young chef in the world.


• Louis Oosthuizen wins the British Open.


• Ernie Els is elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010.


2010 21st Anniversary Boss of the Year® Finalists


• Eric Roland Enslin, CEO, FNB Private Clients.


• Lerato Mosiah, G.M Healthcare, Afrox.


• Dr Melanie Chait, CEO, Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking .


• Prof Sabiha Y Essack, Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences, Univ. of KwaZulu Natal.


• Themba Mthombeni, Executive Chairman, Duma Travel.


• Thomas Nhlapo, CEO, Kopanong Hospital, Sedibeng District.


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