South Africa

Pretoria – Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has wished all the learners well who will be sitting for the Annual National Assessment (ANA), which starts tomorrow.

Mbombela - Emerging livestock farmers in Mpumalanga have two weeks to apply for help from the Livestock Improvement Programme.

Mbombela - The Mpumalanga government is on a drive to link the capital city to the nearby town of White River.

Pretoria - The Department of Environmental Affairs has approved the emergency request from the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) and the salvage team working on the stricken MV Smart vessel to dump 10 000 tons of coal from the vessel into the sea as an interim measure.

Xiamen - The annual China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) got underway on Sunday with South African exhibitors showing off their wares.

Pretoria - Trade and Industry Minister, Dr Rob Davies, has arrived in Xiamen, China, where he is leading a delegation of 62 South African companies.

Pretoria - The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Elizabeth Thabethe, says government alone cannot win the war against liquor and drug abuse.

Pretoria – Gauteng Education MEC, Barbara Creecy, has reiterated that the interventions to improve the quality of learning and teaching in Gauteng led by government are moving in the right direction.

Pretoria – The Gauteng Health Department is to appoint a Deputy Director-General (DDG) in Legal Services in the current financial year, Department MEC Hope Papo announced.

Pretoria - The Department of Higher Education and Training has welcomed the decision by the unions at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) to end the strike that has resulted in university residences being closed and students sent home.

Johannesburg – The excuse that there are no women who are skilled and talented out there is not true, says Minister of Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba.

Randfontein – The Gauteng Health Department has awarded certificates to 270 professional nurses, who have successfully completed their training on Nurse Initiated Management of Antiretroviral Therapy (NIMART).

Pretoria – Learners at Qaka Primary School -- just outside Mthatha in the Eastern Cape -- have started a new chapter in their school careers, as they now have something to look forward to every day when they go to school.

Pretoria – The Managing Director: Wholesale and Networks at Telkom, Bashier Sallie, has resigned.

Fifty years ago Dr Martin Luther King Jrn delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In it he envisioned a new country where people would "not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character". Thousands of people from across the globe last week marked the 50th anniversary of the speech delivered on 28 August 1963.