South Africa

Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma is set to visit five provinces as part of government's ongoing service delivery monitoring and evaluation efforts.

Pretoria - As South Africans prepare for a well-deserved festive season break, the Department of Social Development has called upon all South Africans to refrain from alcohol and drug abuse during holiday festivities.

Pretoria - The 2012 National Sports Award will be bigger, better and "blistering", says Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula.

Pretoria - Funding from the Department of Sport and Recreation to national federations will from this year be divided into two tiers - namely guaranteed and conditional.

Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town on 22 June 2011.

Pretoria - Cabinet has expressed its disapproval of the portrait by Brett Murray that depicted President Jacob Zuma in a denigrating manner.

Pretoria - Plans to commemorate Youth Day are in full swing, says Cabinet.

Pretoria - Cabinet has called on South Africans to fully support and cheer the national rugby team during its upcoming test matches against England in June.

Pretoria - Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula has applauded the fighting spirit displayed by the South African men's hockey team in qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics.

Pretoria - Cabinet has noted the signing of an agreement between the South African and Cuban Ministries of Health.

Pretoria - Government has officially released its Mid Term Review Report, which provides progress on the implementation of the commitments it has made.

Pretoria - Government has released figures which show that school enrolment in Grade R doubled between 2003 and 2011.

Pretoria - Government says substantial steps have been taken towards the establishment of the National Health Insurance System as a means of improving the effectiveness of the country's health system.

Pretoria - The Department of Sport and Recreation has earmarked R42.6 million for the School Sport Progamme, which Minister Fikile Mbalula says is a priority area for delivery this financial year.

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has acknowledged that mental health services have and continue to be inequitably distributed, fragmented and inadequately resourced and characterised by significant provincial variability in South Africa.