South Africa

Pretoria- President Jacob Zuma has declared a special official funeral for the late former Chief Justice Pius Langa.

Pretoria - Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called on religious leaders to play a more active role in healing victims of crime and rehabilitating offenders.

Pretoria- Prison is not a place to raise children, but hundreds of South African women are languishing in foreign jails for drug trafficking and those arrested while pregnant are forced to give birth in these jails.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and his delegation of ministers swapped suits for overalls on Saturday during the war on poverty campaign in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality.

Port Elizabeth- Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe led a government delegation in a dialogue between government and the youth of Nelson Mandela Metro Municipality.

Johannesburg- Is the future of mining threatened in South Africa? Is the country about to lose its status as the continent’s mining power house? And what is the government doing to address the skills shortage in maths and science?

Johannesburg - The citrus industry will soon be exporting to China and India, as well as the African continent, as government has made a commitment to help farmers forge trade links with the two BRICS nations.

Pretoria - Government has dismissed allegations by the Mail & Guardian on the restructuring of the National Nuclear Energy Executive Co-ordinating Committee (NNEECC), with Acting Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) CEO Phumla Williams describing the newspaper’s report as devoid of truth.

Pretoria – Supply chain services company UTi has assured the Department of Basic Education that no schools were adversely affected by the shredding of 100 school workbooks from the 2012 school-year at its Empangeni warehouse.

Pretoria - South Africa’s growth prospects have weakened in the current global and domestic environment, Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus said on Friday.

 Port Elizabeth - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has on Friday kicked off a two-day anti-poverty programme in the Eastern Cape with a visit to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.

Pretoria - The Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, has unveiled a multimillion rand youth skills development and entrepreneurship programme targeting 10 000 young people in the City of Tshwane.

Pretoria – The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) says allegations made by the Mail & Guardian on the department’s capability to deliver professional bulk buying services are untrue and misleading.

Pretoria – The Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation says it is pleased with the progress made by the Free State and Limpopo provinces in light of the development, maintenance and management of sport facilities.

President Jacob Zuma has signed five new into law.