South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has congratulated the newly sworn in Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.

Cape Town - Corrupt individuals can run but cannot hide, the Minister of Public Works Thulas Nxesi warned today, while detailing his department's ongoing efforts to bring corrupt officials and contractors to book.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma says he is aware that the introduction of the Legal Practice Bill has elicited robust and fierce public debates within the legal profession.

Pretoria - The Head of the Gauteng Department of Education, Boy Ngobeni, will be establishing an independent investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of a learner at a school.

Pretoria - Parliament has welcomed the multi-year wage agreement signed by government and public service unions last month.

Pretoria - Government has announced that President Jacob Zuma will today sign the regulations detailing the work of the Commission of Inquiry set up to probe the tragic events at Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, North West.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma this afternoon once again visited Lonmin mines in Marikana near Rustenburg, where he listened to the striking mine workers, some of whose colleagues were tragically killed in the violent clashes with police in last week.

Pretoria - Government has established an information support call centre for the families and dependents of those who lost their lives in the Marikana tragedy.

Pretoria - The petrol price is set to increase by 22 cents a litre next Wednesday, the Energy Department announced on Friday.

Pretoria - South Africa will join the world in celebrating the third annual World Rhino Day on Saturday.

Pretoria - Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant today met with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) representatives in Rustenburg in a bid to defuse the tensions at mines in Marikana.

Irene - Gauteng is expected to see more integrated service delivery in agriculture, rural and social development, thanks to the intergovernmental protocol signed today.

Pretoria - The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has been approached to conduct investigations into the problematic area of housing delivery in the Free State.

Pretoria - Banyana Banyana will be out to prove that they are not in London to make up the numbers when they lock horns with Canada in their second Olympic Group F match in Coventry on Saturday.

Pretoria - Cabinet has approved that a draft policy on lotteries be published for public consultation, says Phumla Williams, acting Cabinet spokesperson.