Pretoria - To help accelerate household targeting and indigent support initiatives, government has developed and implemented the Credible Indigent Policy Assessment Framework.
Parliament - The Department of Housing has made significant progress towards housing delivery by building more than 2.6 million houses for more than 14 million needy households since 1994.
Nelspruit - Mpumalanga's new road signs, which forms part of the province's R160 million upgrade of roads, is to ease confusion for visitors during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Pretoria – The Department of Public Works is pulling out all the stops to stamp out corruption and at the same time rebuild its image.
Pretoria - The number of reported cases of cholera was declining, the Minister for Health Barbara Hogan said on Monday.
Pretoria - Metrorail has warned unruly commuters that it will suspend its services at the Pienaarspoort train station between Mamelodi and Pretoria if the violence on the route does not end.
Parliament - Government and its social partners are considering various interventions which can help minimise the impact of the global economic crisis on the country.
Pretoria - Government has increased the age of its child support grant beneficiaries to 15 years, in an attempt to reach more vulnerable children.
Parliament - The 2010 FIFA World Cup to be hosted in South Africa should be used as a catalyst to shift perceptions about the country and the rest of the African continent, says President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Pretoria - The South African government is in the process of trying to establish if a South African was among the seven people killed in a plane crash in Uganda on Monday.
Johannesburg - Metrobus drivers are being offered customer service training sessions as part of Public Transport Month, which is held nationwide each October.
Pretoria - Despite the fact that many countries have developed national legislation to address the scourge of violence against women and children, the levels of gender-based violence are still unacceptable high.
Johannesburg - The South African Revenue Services (SARS) on Wednesday unveiled a string of new administrative penalties in a bid to crack down on non-compliant tax payers.
The penalties come into effect on 23 November 2009.
Cape Town - Effective and decisive action is needed in the fight against piracy, oil theft and drug trafficking off Africa's coastline, says Chief of the South African Navy Vice Admiral Johannes Mudimu.
Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has dismissed claims that 400 babies have this year died at the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital.
