Features

Johannesburg - The face of Soweto will change with the establishment of the Soweto Empowerment Zone (SEZ), a support facility for small businesses in the township.

Pretoria - The Department of Human Settlements will embark on activities starting Monday, to mark the annual Human Settlements week.

Boksburg - The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) is organising a workshop aimed at finding ways to take Knowledge Management (KM) to a higher level.

Pretoria - Cabinet has approved the new international marketing logo for South Africa.

Johannesburg - Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has urged people living with HIV and AIDS to work with government to intensify the fight against the disease.

Pretoria -The North West Department of Health and Social Development will be putting 40 new ambulances on the road in the coming weeks in a further effort to improve emergency services throughout the province

Johannesburg - The Gauteng Provincial Health Department has allayed fears that there might be an outbreak of meningitis in the province.

Pretoria - Police have confirmed that no explosives were found in both the Johannesburg Magistrates Court and the South Gauteng High Court, after a bomb scare earlier today

Pretoria - The Producer Price Index (PPI) for January 2009 has come in at 9.2 percent year-on-year (y/y) which is 1.8 percent lower than December's figure of 11 percent y/y, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on Thursday.

Pretoria - Government is to honour the life of Sarah Bartmann by establishing the Sarah Centre of Remembrance, the Sarah Bartmann Human Rights Memorial and the Khoi-San Heritage Route, during the month of March.

Bekkersdal - The Gauteng Department of Health has opened another health centre dedicated to serving people infected with HIV and AIDS in Bekkersdal and Westonaria in the West Rand.

Pretoria - The eThekwini Municipality's Community Participation and Action Support Unit will on Thursday launch the Grant-In-Aid Programme.

Cape Town - Government is confident that considerable progress is being made to transform the country's social security system.

Pretoria - The University of the Free State (UFS) on Wednesday re-opened a consultation process regarding the re-admission of four students who allegedly abused cleaners.

Pongola - The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development will open the revamped Pongola Circuit Court in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday to give local residents much needed access to the justice system.