South Africa

Johannesburg- A climate change awareness campaign will begin in Orange Farm on Monday October 24 in the build-up to the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) reports Joburg.org.

Pretoria - The Council of Education has approved an Integrated National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy as part of the Basic Education Department's response to the need for urgency in addressing the low achievement levels of learners in literacy and numeracy.

Pretoria - Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has challenged academic institutions

Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark yesterday to commence the last leg of his working visit to the Nordic countries.

Cape Town - The South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) has honoured brave and hard-working seafarers who rode the high seas to keep global trade going.

Durban - Africa must move beyond the point of being producers of raw materials to build dynamic and competitive manufacturing sectors which process minerals and agricultural products into consumer goods, says President Jacob Zuma.

Cape Town - The South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) has honoured brave and hard-working seafarers who rode the high seas to keep global trade going.

Pretoria - In an effort to protect victims of abuse, the Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development has provided funding to 23 shelters for abused women in the 2010/2011 financial year.

Durban - Durban is now ready to welcome over 15 000 delegates, more than 10 000 observer, from over 190 countries for the COP17, says Ethekwini Municipality mayor James Nxumalo.

Pretoria - South Africa is a free country and continues to build a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and a prosperous future, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Durban - Not even rainy weather could dampen government's ten day countdown celebrations to the COP17 at Wadley Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday.

Durban - A booklet, among other publications, will be launched during COP17 to highlight the city's mitigation- and adaptation-focused interventions.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called for the driver of the vehicle that mowed down six joggers, killing five of them, in Johannesburg on Saturday to be charged with murder.

Pretoria - Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi says government has always been i

Pretoria - Although South Africa can learn from Japan's Fukushima incident, the country's nuclear installations can withstand natural events, the National Nuclear Regulator said on Thursday.