Pretoria - Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgement which upheld the appeal by the Western Cape Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) against a High Court judgment that confirmed the dismissal of sexual assault charges against a Western Cape man.
Port Elizabeth - The National Youth Development says it's all systems go for the National Youth Day celebrations taking place in the Eastern Cape today.
Johannesburg - A sizzling line-up featuring the likes of Zahara and Mi Casa will beat the winter chill at Mofolo Park, in Soweto, where the Youth Day celebration will take place on Saturday.
Port Elizabeth - Hundreds of youngsters, government officials and politicians rallied in Port Elizabeth's Wolfson Stadium Saturday to pay tribute to the youth as South Africa marks the 36th anniversary of the 1976 June 16 student uprising.
Mbombela - Toll road company Trans African Concessions (Trac) has agreed to replant a 200-year-old Wonderboom fig tree that has to be removed to make way for a road project along the N4 highway.
Johannesburg - Sowetans braved the cold weather to gather at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Orlando West in remembrance of the youth of 1976 who declared to the world that enough was enough with racial oppression and apartheid rule.
Soweto - Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has called on the youth to unite and fight against today's challenges like the youth of 1976.
Soweto - A campaign to encourage South Africans, especially learners to pledge against bullying and sexual violence at schools was launched in Soweto on Saturday.
Pretoria - The technical committee of the South African Football Association (Safa) will today conclude the interview process to find a new head coach for Bafana Bafana.
Pretoria - Communications Minister Dina Pule has asked Auditor-General Terrence Nombembe to investigate allegations related to the application of departmental funds linked to the inaugural ICT Indaba, which was recently held in Cape Town.
Pretoria - The Gauteng Provincial Government has dismissed as untrue reports suggesting that it has run out of the essential Tenofovir and Abacavir ARV drugs.
Pretoria - Convicted South African drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda will receive support from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) - this after she was sentenced to a 15-year jail term.
Mbombela - The Mpumalanga Education Department will next month run winter school classes for schools that produced less than 50% last year.
Pretoria - The countdown to Nelson Mandela International Day 2012 has begun.
Mahikeng - The North West provincial government has spent more than R21 million purchasing 65 vehicles in preparation for the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
