South Africa

Pretoria - Eight state-owned companies on Thursday pledged their support for the 49M campaign - the country's energy saving movement.

Nelspruit - Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza says while the province has made some progress in the fight against crime, there was still much to be done.

Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has sent a birthday message to Dr Steve Mokone on his 80th birthday.

Pretoria - Investment on the continent must be evenly distributed to benefit not only the rich but the poor too - given the high levels of inequity on the continent, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday.

Pretoria - Telkom services in the Mountainview and Suiderberg areas in Pretoria have been disrupted following an incident of multiple cable theft in the Daspoort exchange area.

Pretoria - South Africa has been overwhelmingly elected by the Members of the UN General Assembly to the 47-Member Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

Polokwane - Highway Patrol members swiftly arrested six suspects aged 30 and 42 for attempted robbery over the weekend.

Polokwane - Four Polokwane City players have been killed and six injured after the mini bus they were travelling in collided with a bakkie and overturned along the R71 road at Nobody, Mankweng, on Sunday evening.

Pretoria - Banyana Banyana were beaten 4-nil by the host Equatorial Guinea in the final of the CAF African Women Championship played in Malabo on Sunday.

Pretoria - The Orlando Pirates duo of Oupa Manyisa and defender Siyabonga Sangweni have been withdrawn from the Bafana Bafana squad to face Zambia in the Nelson Mandela Challenge on Wednesday at Soccer City.

Pretoria - Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor, is expected to deliver a paper under the theme "Collaborating for Change" at the fourth World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar.

Pretoria - Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk says South Africa saw exceptional growth in tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2012.

Pretoria - Young people attending the second annual Nelson Mandela Children's Parliament have appealed to government to take their views into account when developing policy and programmes that affect them.

Pretoria - The General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (Gilab) does not seek to make policy changes, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele said on Friday.

Pretoria - The Council of Education Ministers says there is a need to scrutinise how human resource management is conducted in provincial education departments to increase accountability among principals and schools.