South Africa

Mutale - More than 100 pupils from three rural schools in Limpopo have received tracksuits ahead of autumn and winter.

Johannesburg - Small businesses are set to benefit from an agreement signed by Massmart and the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) by improving the quality of their products and becoming more competitive.

Soweto - Scores of youth have begun arriving at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto to commemorate National Youth Day.

Pretoria - The newly built state-of-the-art Germiston hospital in Ekurhuleni is set to open its doors for the public before the end of the year.

Pretoria - Hundreds of residents in Masechaba and Coolbreeze in Duduza will soon enjoy clean water and flushing toilets.

Pretoria-Cabinet spokesperson and Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) CEO, Jimmy Manyi, has again reiterated that the placing of advertisements and editorial independence are not linked.

Johannesburg - Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has launched the Human Resource Strategy for Health, which aims to ensure a workforce fit to meet the country's health needs.

Johannesburg- It is a day violently etched on the South African collective conscience. Commemorated over 30 years later as Youth Day, an official holiday, it is the day that honours the deaths of hundreds of Soweto schoolchildren, a day that changed the course of the country's history: 16 June 1976. Joburg.org reports

Pretoria - Trade conditions remained weak in September, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) said on Tuesday.

Soweto - Fourteen-year-old Dikeledi Motsine was one of the thousands of young people dancing to the music while her favourite singers performed at the National Youth Day commemorations at Orlando Stadium on Thursday.

Johannesburg - African countries need to find new and improved methods of cooperation at regional and continental level to ensure complementary economic and social policies that create decent work opportunities.

Cape Town - The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has indicated that the current worldwide credit crunch was affecting South Africa's major agriculture markets in Europe.

Cape Town - MPs have warned the Onderstepoort Biological Products Company (OBP) to get its house in order after the company received a qualified report from the Auditor-General (AG).

Pretoria - The planting of cherry blossom trees will be the order of the day when the Department of International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Marius Fransman and Japanese Ambassador to South Africa, Toshiro Ozawa, get together later today to celebrate a hundred years of relations between the two countries.

Pretoria - Eskom has set up an expert review team to determine whether the first unit of the Medupi power station it is on track to come on line in 2012.