South Africa

Pretoria - Offender labour will soon be utilised more often to revamp and furnish schools in South Africa, the Correctional Services Minister, Sibusiso Ndebele, has announced.

Johannesburg - Statistician General Pali Lehohla on Monday reiterated that the results of Census 2011 are accurate.

Pretoria - The technical committee selection panel of the South African Football Association (Safa) have identified Bafana Bafana caretaker coach, Steve Komphela and Gordon Igesund as top candidates for the Bafana head coach job.

Pretoria - The South Africa/Namibia Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security has expressed confidence that COP17 will yield results that will advance humankind's endeavours to mitigate the threat of climate change to human security.

Pretoria - Energy Minister Dipuo Peters has welcomed the appointment of Nosizwe Nokwe as chief executive officer of PetroSA.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma and his Benin counterpart, Thomas Boni Yayi, have reiterated the need for reforms within the United Nations system, particularly the Security Council and the Bretton Woods Institutions to take into account the needs of developing countries.

Pretoria - Today marks the start of the 16 days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign, with a number of activities planned to raise awareness around women abuse expected to take place within the next two weeks.

Thohoyandou - The Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo has set aside R3.5 million to help impoverished matriculants who want to further their studies.

Pretoria - Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu will this afternoon depart for Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for a final logistics briefing and sign off on the responsibilities allocated to South Africa for the elections to be held on Sunday.

Pretoria - A total 45 Chief Executive Officers, including Eskom's Brian Dames, have committed to advance corporate water management practices.

Johannesburg - Holidaymakers who will be taking their pets with them to their destinations have been urged to vaccinate their animals before leaving.

Cape Town - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) plans to buy thousands of new trains - with most manufactured locally - and is refurbishing old coaches, while revamping and modernising stations and signalling, Lucky Montana, Prasa chief executive says.

Johannesburg - A total of 140 868 jobs were created in Gauteng against the annual target of 227 521, Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane said on Friday.

Pretoria - The newly appointed Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says the public servants wage increase currently being offered by government would cost the country R30 billion and that government could not afford anything more than that.

Johannesburg - The Gauteng Provincial Government has commissioned a territorial review of the Gauteng city region, said Premier Nomvula Mokonyane on Friday.