Pretoria - Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has, under the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, declared the Waterberg area as a national priority area.
Pretoria - Government is to accelerate the implementation of the Local Government Turnaround Strategy, which is aimed at ensuring an effective and efficient local government, says Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Pretoria - Young people in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria today had an opportunity to speak frankly with Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe about their grievances, such as not being able to get financial assistance to further their studies or to set up their own businesses and poor service delivery.
Pretoria - The unveiling of 50 Transnet Pipelines (TPL) tank wagons is a milestone that South Africa should be proud of, which will help the country in its quest to become an original equipment manufacturing hub on the continent.
East London - Eastern Cape Premier Noxolo Kiviet says the dismissal of two senior managers from her office is just the beginning of her government's zero tolerance policy towards fraud.
Pretoria - Limpopo police on Thursday arrested six suspects, aged between 12 and 14 years, for the murder of three children in Mookgopong in August.
Cape Town - Ireland is emerging from its economic slump and views Africa as a continent that will become an economic giant in years to come, says Joe Costello TD, Minister of State for Trade and Development in Ireland.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has conveyed his condolence to Inkatha Freedom Party leader, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his family after his son, uMntwana Phumaphesheya Gregory Buthelezi, passed away.
Pretoria - Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies and his Iraqi counterpart Khairullah Hasan Babakr have signed an agreement aimed at strengthening economic ties between South Africa and Iraq by exploring trade potential in various sectors.
Pretoria - Infrastructure development, especially in the deep rural areas, will remain a key priority of the current administration, says KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Human Settlements and Public Works, Ravi Pillay.
Johannesburg - South Africa's number one wheelchair tennis player, Lucas Sithole, has urged all South Africans to take the Paralympics games as seriously as the Olympics and give the team their full support.
Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs is preparing to facilitate the movement of the 15 national football teams and their fans who will be flocking to South Africa for the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament in January next year.
Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma has told Members of Parliament that his family, and not government, paid for his private home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.
Pretoria - North West Premier Thandi Modise has called on the public to help the police with information that might lead to the arrest of alleged muti killers, after the body of a 13-year-old boy was found with some of its parts missing.
Pretoria - All national teams and their supporters who will be coming to the country during the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) soccer tournament have been advised to declare imports of animals and animal products before entering South Africa.
