Virgin Active opens 100th club
Virgin Active has opened its 100th club at Balfour Park, Johannesburg, late last week, justifying the call made by Nelson Mandela in 2001 to Richard Branson, asking him to save thousands of jobs by taking over the liquidated Health and Racquet Club.
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group and which Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments has a 32 percent stake in, has made the first test flight of its commercial manned spaceship, it announced on Monday.