South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will today receive President Francois Hollande of France for his first state visit to South Africa at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Thursday officially launch government’s food security programme, Fetsa Tlala, in Kuruman in the Northern Cape.

Pretoria – The Mahikeng Community Residential Units (CRU) in Extension 39 have officially been launched, giving more people a decent place to call home.

Pretoria – The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ebrahim Ebrahim, has challenged employees within his department to understand, believe and adopt the values that struggle stalwart OR Tambo possessed.

Pretoria - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was on Saturday evening named the Finance Minister of the Year (2013) in the sub-Saharan Africa category by Emerging Markets.

Pretoria – A total of 4 800 medical health cards are expected to be issued to military veterans so they can have free access to health care services in different military health facilities across the country.

Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu has warned that the provincial government will not hesitate to intervene in any municipality to ensure the speedy delivery of services.

Pretoria – Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has committed her department to continue with its programme to ensure that both the housing and sanitation projects in Delmas proceed well, until there is no family that is homeless and with inferior sanitation.

Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Health has invested R30 million towards brand new linen for hospitals and clinics currently facing acute shortages.

Pretoria – The South African National Road Agency SOC Limited (Sanral) says claims made by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) in media interviews following the Supreme Court of Appeal’s dismissal of their application are “inflammatory and fly in the face of nation building”.

Pretoria - The Department of Social Development will increase services to the community of De Doorns in the Western Cape, says Minister Bathabile Dlamini.

Pretoria – The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is on the verge of expanding the period of benefit payment from eight months to 12 months, says the fund’s commissioner Boas Seruwe.

Pretoria – The role languages play in the developing world, both internationally and in South Africa, will take centre stage during the 10th International Conference on Language and Development.

Pretoria - Almost six million books have been delivered in Limpopo, and the province expects to conclude the delivery of textbooks by mid-November for the 2014 academic year.

Durban – The newly appointed KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Education, Peggy Nkonyeni, says schools around the province are ready to administer the 2013 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams.