Skip to main content
Search SAnews

South Africa

Bafana coach disappointed by Egypt move

176 views

Pretoria - Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane is disappointed by the Egyptian Football Association's decision to use their national Under 23 team for the remaining two games of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers.

PRASA digs deep for train victims

203 views

Pretoria - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has reserved R20 million to assist the Tshwane and Soweto train accident victims.

Fund raising for Horn of Africa famine

240 views

Pretoria - South Africa will join other African countries, who will meet on Thursday, to pledge funds to tackle famine in the Horn of Africa.

Pension backlog for vets down 99%

317 views

Cape Town - Deputy Minister of Finance, Nhlanhla Nene, today praised the National Treasury's special pensions unit for reducing the backlog for pension applications of liberation veterans from 3 810 outstanding applications to 48 by last month.

Gauteng tests 3 million for HIV

198 views

Pretoria - More than three million people have tested for HIV in Gauteng's health facilities since the launch of HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) in April 2010.

Dept sheds light on scholar transport contract

214 views

East London - The Eastern Cape Transport Department says it had no choice but to deviate from normal procurement processes when recently awarding a scholar transport contract.

KZN civil servants to pay back over R3m

204 views

Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal government's fight against fraud and corruption is well on track, with more than 1 000 civil servants currently subject to disciplinary action on various charges.

EC nearly ready for SA Games

183 views

East London - The Eastern Cape has almost finalized its team that will represent the province at the South Africa Games in October.

DTI promotes intra-Africa trade

167 views

Pretoria - Supporting intra-Africa trade should be a matter of urgency, says Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Elizabeth Thabethe.

African leaders to pledge for Somalia

179 views

Pretoria - The African Union (AU) hopes to raise hundreds of millions of dollars today at the pledging conference for victims of drought and famine in the Horn of Africa.

R1.5mln to help Mpuma sport body

119 views

Mbombela - Sporting activities in the province are expected to get a boost after a R1.5 million cheque was handed over to the Mpumalanga Sport Confederation (MSC).

Drop in dairy, red meat imports

188 views

Cape Town - South Africa is relying less on imports of dairy products and red meat, while maize stocks were up 33 percent, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesdsay.

Municipality gets interdict against Samwu strikers

312 views

Mbombela - The Mbombela local municipality in Mpumalanga has obtained a temporary court order to prevent striking South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) workers from trashing streets, intimidating municipal workers or damaging municipal property.