East London - Just over a month after having released its comprehensive diagnostic overview of the country, the National Planning Commission (NPC) has begun public hearings across the country to get the views of South Africans on how to tackle some of the challenges raised in the document.
Pretoria - PetroSA, South Africa's national oil company has announced an R8.5 million initiative to improve environmental management and community development in the Mossel Bay area of the Southern Cape.
Cairo - Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Sunday called an emergency cabinet meeting following sectarian clashes in Cairo which left nine people killed.
Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs has allayed fears of a mass deportation of Zimbabwean nationals, now that the adjudication process of the Zimbabwean Documentation Project has been finalised.
Pretoria - Skills development and education have received a significant boost through the signing of two accords that will, among others, see 30 000 new artisans receive training.
Mbombela - Three pupils have been given a second chance to represent Mpumalanga in a national water conservation competition and possibly bring home first prize.
Pretoria - South Africans across the country on Monday extended their condolences to the family of SABC journalist Kgomotso Sebetso, who died this morning, following a car crash last night.
Johannesburg - The new Companies and Intellectual Property Commission was official launched in Midrand
Pretoria - Two planes carrying a South African medical team, including dieticians, paediatricians and food supplies, have landed in famine-hit Somalia.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma says municipalities should communicate with citizens at all times to reduce the level of frustration and anger among people who demand service delivery.
Pretoria - Seventy-five thousand police officers and more than 1 000 soldiers will be deployed across the country to ensure that the upcoming Local Government Elections are safe and secure.
Pretoria - South African youth need to take a stand and actively map a path towards a better future, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.
Cape Town - Government's application to review the Competition Tribunal's recent decision to approve the Walmart-Massmart merger did not mean the government was against foreign investment, the Ministers of Economic Development, Trade and Industry, and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said today.
Pretoria - Registered voters living in Metropolitan areas across the country will receive two ballot papers on Election Day, May 18.
Pretoria - An operation by the Hawks and the Home Affairs Immigration Inspectorate led to the arrest of 18 Chinese nationals on charges relating to the alleged use of fraudulent South African documents.
