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Pretoria - Seven municipalities and 10 municipal entities managed to receive clean audit reports for the financial year 2009/10.

East London - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is concerned that Eastern Cape youth don't know much about the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), a body put in place to help them.

Pretoria - Over 450 youth from Gauteng will today gather in KwaThema in Springs for the annual youth summit, where social development and the youth's involvement in improving and taking ownership of their health will come under the spotlight.

Pretoria - Eskom has defended the increase in the payment of executives in the parastatal, saying this is a direct result of the company having filled vacant posts.

Pretoria - In an effort to improve infection control measures, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital has received 11 Scrub Zone machines to be used for effective hand sanitization.

Pretoria - The South African Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) has thanked the public for its patience during the petroleum sector strike, which ended on Thursday.

Pretoria - As from next week Tuesday, the North West will start deregistering untraceable housing beneficiaries in a multimillion housing development project.

Cape Town - Hundreds of people from across the country and beyond its borders are pouring in to the city today to pay tribute to the late former Minister of Education and Water Affairs, Professor Kader Asmal.

Cape Town - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has described the late former Minister of Education and Water Affairs and ANC struggle hero, Professor Kader Asmal, as "a great African patriot who devoted his life to the fight against human oppression."

Pretoria - A country is defined by the values of its people, and in today's morally challenging times, it is encouraging to see South Africans collectively rise to the occasion of reconstructing society's moral fibre and good old fashioned Ubuntu.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has started his day-long visit to the Eastern Cape to inspect local go

Butterworth - It was an emotional moment for residents of a small Eastern Cape village as they got to enjoy the benefits of electricity for the first time today.

Pretoria - Turning South Africa into a construction site - that is the new message President Jacob Zuma has been widely communicating since government first announced its massive infrastructure build programme earlier this year.

When President Jacob Zuma handed over the first of 49 schools built through the Accelerated School Infrastructure Development Initiative (ASIDI) in the Eastern Cape last month, he signalled government's broadest step yet towards the eradication of mud schools in the country.

Polokwane - The newly elected Mayor of the Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo, Tshitereke Matibe, has pledged to work around the clock to address the water shortages in poor communities.