South Africa

Johannesburg - Mourners from across the country on Saturday bade farewell to former Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Sicelo Shiceka, who passed away two weeks ago.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has extended good wishes to all South African mothers as the world observes Mother's Day.

Pretoria - South Africa needs to decide now where it wants to be in 2020 in terms of sustainable tourism, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Saturday.

Pretoria - Gauteng Health MEC Ntombi Mekgwe has assured the people of Gauteng that the availability of the antiretroviral drug, Tenofovir, has improved substantially in the province over the past weeks.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Sunday travel to Benin for the meeting of the African Union Heads of State and Government Ad-hoc Committee on the election of the members of the African Union Commission, the Presidency said.

Pretoria - Government says in its Mid Term Review report, released on Friday, in overall at least 6.8 million hectares of land have been transferred to beneficiaries between 1994 and 2011, through its Land Acquisition and Redistribution Programme and the Land Restitution Programme.

Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs will this week intensify its campaign to eradicate more than 29 000 duplicate identity documents.

Pretoria - The consultative meeting of the African Union (AU) ad-hoc committee gets underway in the Benin capital, Cotonou, this morning.

Pretoria - The petrol price is to come down by 55 cents a litre, the Energy Department said on Friday.

Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs says it has issued the Ethiopian National Football Club, the Black Lions, with the necessary visas for travel to South Africa.

Johannesburg - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele had applauded South African motorists for their "good behaviour" during the Easter weekend, which resulted in a lowered death toll.

Johannesburg - Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, has urged parents to educate their children on how to protect themselves from the dangers of online activities.

Pretoria - Justice Deputy Minister Andries Nel will represent South Africa at a meeting of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys-General convened by the Commission of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Pretoria - The Department of Health says Aspen Pharmacare, one of the two companies supplying anti-retrovirals to government hospitals, on Friday released 30 000 packs of Tenofovir for the Limpopo depot.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Health Department has set aside R1.4 billion to ensure a steady supply of medicine, with the bulk of the amount to be allocated to the Medical Supplies Depot.