South Africa

Pretoria - A total of 4463 new South African National Defence Force (SANDF) recruits will begin their training this month.

Pretoria - An update on the preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup will top the agenda of the two-day meeting of the FIFA's executive committee in Zurich next Thursday.

Pretoria - SA Airlink flights will start operating from the newly built King Shaka International Airport in Durban on May 1, a month before the kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Pretoria - OR Tambo International Airport has scooped the 2013 African Airport of the Year Award for Airport Cargo Excellence during a ceremony held at the Barnyard Theatre in Rivonia, Johannesburg, on Thursday night.

Pretoria - International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has strengthened relations between South Africa and the sub-Saharan nation during her working visit.

Pretoria - The N1 south bound highway is likely to be closed for most of the day following last night's accident between two trucks and three other vehicles.

Pretoria - South Africa and Germany on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote cooperation between the two countries on energy issues.

Their ancestral land was important to them; it was fertile - helping them grow much needed crops, but between 1963 and 1967 they were evicted from their land, their homes bulldozed, not giving them enough time to pack their belongings.

Pretoria - South African men have been asked to come out in their numbers and participate in a march to promote the culture of no abuse against women and children.

Nelspruit - Service delivery and HIV/Aids were among the key issues on which Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza focused in his State of the Province address in Nelspruit on Friday.

Pretoria - South Africa's Ministry for Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities has made two new appointments to help it control its expenditure and meet its primary goal of protecting vulnerable groups.

Pretoria - Government has called on South African businesses to resist the temptation to unduly inflate their prices.

Pretoria - Preparations are at an advanced stage for celebrations of Human Right's Day scheduled for 21 March.

Pretoria - The country's education system needs to be intensified to ensure an improvement in the matric results, says President Jacob Zuma.

Pretoria - Government considers South Africa having 11 official languages as an asset rather than a burden, says Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana.