Thohoyandou - With the start of the marula season, hundreds of unemployed Limpopo women have collected wild marula fruits and started making beer to sell to locals and people from as far as Gauteng.
Mthatha - An Eastern Cape family celebrated Christmas early when they received a brand new house five months after their home burnt to the ground.
Port Elizabeth - President Jacob Zuma has launched the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV and Aids 2012 - 2016, which promises to do much more to tackle TB and issues of violence against women.
In March, cabinet approved the submission of the amendment bills for the Labour Relations Act (LRA) and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) to Parliament. The two will deal with the phenomenon of labour broking and child labour, among other things.
Pretoria - A Chinese national, who was arrested on Monday after being found in possession of dried abalone, will appear before the Bellville Magistrate's Court today.
Pretoria - As festive season celebrations get into full swing, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has called on parents to take care of their children and not neglect them during the festivities.
Mbombela - Domestic workers and contract cleaners in Mpumalanga's capital have welcomed the annual wage increase that took effect today.
Pretoria - Ekurhuleni residents have been warned that the Brakpan Licensing Centre in Ekurhuleni is operating under limited capacity following a burglary last Friday.
Belfast - Mozambican government authorities are trying to establish the names of the Mozambican citizens who were among 18 people killed in a horrific road accident in Mpumalanga on Thursday morning.
Pretoria - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) says it is working on restoring its news feed, which is down due to technical problems.
Pretoria - Environmental Health Assistants have been urged to apply for registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) by the end of next month.
Pretoria - Although over three million people have tested for HIV, the Gauteng Health Department is calling on others to heed the call and voluntarily have themselves tested.
Cape Town - Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has reiterated that South Africa would not nationalise its mines.
Malalane - The Mpumalanga government has offered to help bury a recently married couple who died in a horrific road accident along with their three children over the weekend.
She had been an asthma sufferer since the age of 12, an affliction she really never outgrew. At 22, it seemed as though the lung disease had reared its ugly head again.
