South Africa

Pretoria - Cabinet has thrown its support behind the hosting of the World Cup kick-off concert scheduled for next week, saying calls for its boycott are "ill-advised."

Pretoria - South Africa was definitely the place to be during June 2010, with almost 1 million foreign nationals visiting the country in that time.

Pretoria - South Africa is to celebrate 150 years of the arrival of Indians in the country later this year, said President Jacob Zuma on his first Asian state visit to India on Wednesday.

Pretoria - Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele has clarified "incorrect and worse, misleading" newspaper reports that he was behind a dodgy R500-million lease agreement.

Pretoria - Four more residents from the Pieter Wessels Old Age Home in Nigel have passed away, increasing the number deceased to 22.

Cape Town - South Africa will have a clearer picture on the future of its electricity mix and supply by the end of the year, said the Department of Energy's Ompi Aphane, Acting Deputy Director-General of Electricity, Nuclear and Clean Energy.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Provincial Government will mark Women's Day celebrations on Monday by exhibiting service delivery opportunities at Vosloorus Sports Grounds.

Pretoria - A R20 million medicinal plant conservation project in Limpopo is expected to advance the need for development, promotion and protection of natural, biological resources in the area.

Pretoria - Government says it is saddened by the acts of violence that erupted at Anglo American Platinum’s Siphumelele mine in Rustenburg on Monday.

Johannesburg - While the World Cup has brought the greatest football teams on the planet to South Africa, the Football for Hope Festival 2010 will assemble 32 teams that represent the power of the game to bring about social change

Pretoria - Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa is tightening the noose on police officers who abuse their positions by addressing weakness within the organisation that investigates complaints of criminality and misconduct by police.

Johannesburg - In a move that is set to put the struggle of South African women in the forefront, the Department of Arts and Culture announced on Tuesday that the graves of struggle icons Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi and Charlotte Maxeke will be declared as national heritage sites.

Pretoria – Athlete Oscar Pistorius’s murder charge is to be treated as a schedule six category offence, Pretoria Magistrate Desmond Nair says.

Pretoria - The National Press Club has called on authorities to immediately withdraw the subpoenas against two e.tv journalists who are expected to appear in court today.

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