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.
Pretoria - The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has warned people against acquiring or occupying land illegally, saying it would not refund anyone who had acquired land illegally.
Johannesburg - The outbreak of rabies in Gauteng is fully under control despite an incident where three people were bitten by a puppy with suspicious behavioural symptoms of the disease.
Pretoria - Celebrations erupted at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront on Friday night as Table Mountain was provisionally named a New 7 Wonder of Nature following a three-year global race to choose the world's seven most wonderful natural sites.
Pretoria - Labour Minister, Mildred Oliphant has paid tribute to the outgoing Director-General of the International Labour Organisation Juan Somavia, saying under his tutelage, the voice of labour was audible on the international stage.
East London - The murder of former Springbok player Solly Tyibilika in a shebeen in Cape Town has shocked the sporting fraternity in his home province.
Pretoria - The Department of Basic Education, in partnership with Vodacom, today launched the third provincial ICT Resource Centre.
Cape Town - Sports and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced a plan to "completely transform" the sporting landscape in South Africa.
Pretoria - A number of projects have been implemented in Elliotdale in the Mbashe Local Municipality, which is one of the 21 poorest district municipalities in the country, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe
Johannesburg - Gauteng is to beef up programmes aimed at preventing social ills such as substance abuse, violence against women, children and people with disability.
