South Africa

Mbombela - Runaway fires are expected to break out in Mpumalanga for the rest of the week.

Pretoria - Traditional leaders and health professionals have been called on to work better together to ensure safer circumcision of young men in Gauteng.

Pretoria - Banyana Banyana have qualified for the 2012 London Olympics after playing to a 1-all draw a

Pretoria - Destitute villagers of Seolong outside Rustenburg in the North West will soon have roofs over their heads, thanks to Madiba's legacy.

Pretoria - South Africans are urged to come in large numbers to support Banyana Banyana when they take on Ethiopia in the first leg of the 2012 Olympic Qualifier match at Orlando Stadium on Saturday.

Pretoria - Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper, Wayne Sandilands, is hopeful that the national squad will return victorious from their second 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier clash against Egypt.

East London - Thanks to a group of generous chefs, one Eastern Cape school won't have to worry about feeding their pupils for the next five years.

Pretoria - A Gauteng educator, who was caught on camera hitting a learner, has been put on precautionary suspension by the Provincial Education Department.

Pretoria - Eighty-five Public Protector investigators from all over the country are currently receiving training to ensure that they are more effective in their investigative work.

Pretoria - The train driver involved in last week's train crash in Soweto has been fired, Metrorail boss, Mosenngwa Mofi, said on Wednesday.

Pretoria - Cabinet will tomorrow begin its annual mid-year lekgotla to review achievements and identify interventions needed to speed up progress on job creation and service delivery.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has conveyed his condolences to the families of the Western Cape school bus accident that reportedly killed 16 people, 15 of them children near Knysna.

Paarl - A man born before Nelson Mandela drew lots of applause in the Boland town of Mbekweni on Friday when he received a food parcel from Deputy Social Development Minister Bongi Maria Ntuli.

Cape Town - The Department of Basic Education says while there are known instances of teachers having relationships with learners, it is yet to conduct its own study to establish the facts and statistics of the phenomenon.

Kimberley - Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana has called for the harsher sentencing of perpetrators of violence against women and children and for the sexual offences courts to be re-established speedily.