Johannesburg - The funding of 200 new Early Childhood Development (ECD) sites to take care of 10 000 more children are among the targets set by the Gauteng Department of Social Development in the next financial year.
Pretoria - Deputy Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Sue van der Merwe is to host a reception in Pretoria today to mark United Nations (UN) Day.
Mafikeng - The North West Provincial Government will this year intensify support for small and emerging farmers to secure and increase food production in the province.
Pretoria - Metrorail services at Eerste Fabrieke and Pienaarspoort stations were still suspended on Monday.
Pretoria - The high numbers of unemployment, especially amongst the youth, must be top of the agenda, said Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
Mmabatho - The North West Provincial Government is confident that the FIFA inspection team will declare that Rustenburg is ready to host both the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup when it visits the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Thursday.
Bloemfontein - Universitas, in Bloemfontein, is the first academic hospital in the country to take possession of a Symbia T scanner - a single photon (gamma-ray) detecting camera system integrated with a computed tomography (x-ray) system.
Pretoria - The Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) and the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) management are expected on Thursday to sign an agreement that could see an end to a three-week strike at the institution.
Mafikeng - The North West Provincial Government has budgeted R420 million for job creation through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP).
Johannesburg - The once uninhabitable and murky City Deep Hostel has been converted into an attractive family space, complete with play grounds for children.
Pretoria - The Department of Transport has dispatched a team of investigators to look into the cause of several accidents at the weekend which left more than 20 people dead.
Pretoria - Motorists, who were issued with traffic summons in Johannesburg for less serious offences between 1 November 2008 and 11 February 2009, might be in luck to and have them withdrawn.
Pretoria - Two of South Africa's most historic archival collections have been listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) Memory of the World International Register.
Pretoria - The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) will reopen on Friday with classes resuming on Monday, following a signed agreement between Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the university's management.
New York - Wall Street plunged on Thursday with the Dow Jones average dropping below 7 500 to a six-year low on financial woes and a grim economic outlook.
