South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has appointed new judges to serve in various High Courts throughout the country.

Pretoria – The South African Post Office (Sapo) is due to deliver more than 2 000 set-top box decoders to households in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) area in the Northern Cape.

Pretoria - Liquid cocaine worth R2 million was confiscated at OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday.

Pretoria - The Hawks in Mpumalanga have arrested a 25-year-old mother and two other women for allegedly being involved in the sale of a one-year-old child in Nelspruit.

Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) has provisionally approved the re-enlistment of 548 former police members.

Pretoria - The South African National Aids Council (SANAC) distributed half a million condoms to approximately 56 000 football supporters at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Wednesday.

Pretoria – Government has noted the Investors Service (Moody’s) decision to revise South Africa’s outlook on the rating to negative.

Pretoria - The upgrade of the R573 Moloto Road will feature safety aspects that will help to curb road accidents and save people’s lives, says Transport Minister Dipuo Peters.

Pretoria – Government is looking at developing programmes that will assist South Africans to heal from the injustices of the past.

Pretoria – The Presidential Task Team, which was set up to investigate and make recommendations on the short-term student funding challenges at universities, has submitted its report to President Jacob Zuma.

Pretoria - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi will install the first batch of government subsidised set-top boxes (STBs) in Keimoes in the Northern Cape on Thursday.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has commended the work done to improve the Lodewyk P. Spies Home in Eersterust, Pretoria, which houses elderly people.

Pretoria - The newly appointed Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Des van Rooyen, says he is ready to assume the responsibilities and implement the mandate of the department.

Pretoria – Arts and Culture Deputy Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi will officiate the unveiling of the tombstone of the late liberation struggle heroine, Josephine Moshobane, at the Ekhaya Centre in Diepkloof on Friday.

Pretoria - The Eastern Cape Human Settlements Department has ordered a contractor to demolish and rebuild 89 sub-standard houses in two villages.