South Africa

Pretoria-The kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on June 11 will coincide with the inaugural Festival of Africa.

Johannesburg- Tickets for the Bafana Bafana friendly international against Colombia at Soccer City tomorrow evening are selling like hot cakes says South African Football Association (Safa) CEO Leslie Sedibe.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to save energy in an effort to avoid the load-shedding that plunged the country into darkness in 2007 and 2008.

Durban - In order for Africans to take charge of their land and themselves, they will need to look no further then themselves says Dr Lungile Bhengu-Baloyi

Pretoria- All tickets for Bafana Bafana's 2010 FIFA World Cup tune-up international friendly against Colombia at Soccer City Stadium this evening are sold out.

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.