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Mthatha - Issues of rural development and service delivery needs will come to the fore when Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe visits Lubala village in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.

Durban - Arts and Culture MEC Weziwe Thusi has provided KwaZulu-Natal with an R88 million coffer for the development and support of arts infrastructure.

Durban - Pinky Naicker, 22, has mastered the Diski dance but she still has more to learn as training for volunteers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in KwaZulu-Natal kicked off.

Pretoria - The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements will be hosting a conference which aims to focus on problems encountered by emerging contractors on housing projects.

Pretoria - Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform will be visiting the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal this week to check on progress made.

Pretoria - The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has launched an investigation following the derailment of the Shosholoza Meyl Diamond Express on Saturday.

Klerksdorp - North West MEC for Human Settlements Desbo Mohono has warned emerging contractors that her department will not tolerate shoddy work.

Durban - The City of Joburg has landed the number one spot on the national top ten Blue Drop Performers.

Pretoria - In an effort to help combat HIV and AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal, doctors from across the country and the continent circumcised over 200 men in KwaNongoma recently.

Pretoria - Minister of Public Service and Administration Richard Baloyi says the time has come for the creation of a new breed of public servants who will take service delivery to the next level.

Johannesburg - Although the 2008 South African National Youth Risk Behaviour Survey shows reductions in risky sexual behaviour as compared to a previous survey, Minister Collins Chabane remains concerne

Pretoria - Human development is key to building a sustainable platform for research, development and innovation, says Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor.

Pretoria - More than a million KwaZulu-Natal children have been immunised against measles and polio since the campaign was launched last week.

Pretoria- Striking municipal workers are to return to work later today and tomorrow.

Pretoria - South Africans will now be able to keep a close eye on government's progress in its Programme of Action (PoA) by tracking it on a website