South Africa

Pretoria - The international friendly between Bafana Bafana and Japan will no longer be played at the revamped Orlando Stadium, but will be held at the Rand Stadium.

Cape Town - An amount of R1.26 million has been donated to False Bay College to strengthen the Grade 10 to 12 tutoring programme on offer at the college's Centre of Science and Technology.

Pretoria - The South African National Development Team will clash with the hosts of the Cosafa senior challenge in a semi-final match to be played in Harare on Wednesday.

Cape Town - Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu says it would have been "beyond comprehensible" for government to commit to spending such a large amount of money on purchasing eight Airbus A400M military transport aircraft.

Pretoria - Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan has confirmed that President Jacob Zuma has not interfered in the saga surrounding Eskom Chief Executive Officer Jacob Maroga and the Board of Directors.

She has been dubbed Doctor Fix It - a label that has probably propelled the new Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to work tirelessly to ensure that the challenges facing the department are indeed fixed.

Johannesburg - Controversial Blackburn Rovers striker Benni McCarthy will play for Bafana Bafana in two upcoming international friendlies against Japan and Jamaica next week.

Pretoria - About 300 people, including people living with HIV and AIDS, and health experts are expected to gather at the Gallagher Estate on Friday for the inaugural Positive Convention on Living with HIV and AIDS.

Mafikeng - The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) in the North West has expressed concern over failure by the Office of the Premier to lead by example in avoiding fruitless expenditure as described by the Auditor-General Terrence Nombembe in his report tabled in the provincial assembly recently.

Johannesburg - Government has come up with a draft national solar water heating framework aimed at popularizing the idea of solar water power, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday.

Peddie - A group of RDP house recipients in the Eastern Cape have joined the fight to save the environment in the run-up to the COP17 climate change conference later this month.

Pretoria - Gauteng Education MEC Barbara Creecy has launched an Extra School Support Programme to provide homework assistance and sporting activities to underperforming schools in the province.

Pretoria - While the current financial crisis has shown that change is inevitable, the world cannot attain higher growth without addressing the root causes of imbalances in the global economy, says President Jacob Zuma.

Pietermaritzburg - The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government will have to play a critical role in ensuring that government creates 11 million jobs by 2030, says KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize.

Gariep Dam - A R45 million fish hatchery is to be constructed in Gariep Dam in the Free State to not only supply local community projects, but create employment opportunities.