South Africa

Standerton - Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza will lead the provincial HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign by doing a public HIV test on Friday.

Pretoria - Self–referrals by patients has been identified as a major challenge towards the improvement of health care services at Brits District Hospital in the North West.

Pretoria- Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has concluded his two-day official visit to Turkey with the signing of a joint declaration which commits the two countries on strengthening economic and commercial relations.

Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma has moved to allay fears that the country's constitution is under threat, saying the executive remained committed to the supremacy of the document.

Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will this week visit the Eden district in the Western Cape to assess progress made in lifting communities out of poverty.

Pretoria - Women, people with disabilities and other rightly qualified people are encouraged to apply for at least 30 senior management positions at the Ministry of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities.

Pretoria - South Africa should retain the high level of community awareness and effective law enforcement that prevented an increase in human trafficking and other forms of women and child abuse during the Soccer World Cup.

Pretoria - The Producer Price Index (PPI) for March rose to 3.7 percent, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on Thursday.

Pretoria - Around 90,000 additional tickets for the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be made available for public sale across all 64 matches from Friday.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has conveyed his condolences to the families of eight people who were killed when a construction vehicle overturned in the Eastern Cape.

Pretoria - Civil society groups are fighting xenophobia and violence in a unique way - one signature at a time

Pretoria - Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has described the findings of a survey on the Quality of Life in the Gauteng City-Region as an important reality check.

In November last year, my department assumed responsibility for skills development from the Department of Labour. At the time, we acknowledged that there were negative perceptions about the performance, management and governance of the Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs); that there was inadequate alignment of industry needs and provision of training and skills development and particularly relating to the supply of artisans and technicians; and that when the industrial policy action plan was finalised we would align skills development efforts to support its implementation.

Pretoria - A 58-year-old pilot and her 57-year-old passenger sustained minor injuries when their light aircraft crashed next to a graveyard, west of Louis Trichardt in Limpopo, on Tuesday morning.

Pretoria - Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on Thursday visited the borders of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Swaziland as soldiers resumed their patrol posts there.