South Africa

Pretoria- FIFA has banned the Egyptian national team from playing its first two home matches, for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil qualifier, at the Cairo International Stadium.

Cape Town - Archbishop Desmond Tutu has praised South Africans for their contribution to the world

Mafikeng - The signing of an agreement that will frame future bilateral co-operation on climate change issues between the North West province and Manitoba province in Canada is in the pipeline, said the North West MEC for Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Rural Development Boitumelo Tshwene

Pretoria- Transnet and labour are to meet again at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in efforts to end a 10 day strike at its operations.

Johannesburg - The delivery of services to the country's people dominated a discussion between President Zuma and his top management on Friday.

Pretoria- Retail trade sales for March 2010 grew by one percent compared to March 2009, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday

Mafikeng - The signing of an agreement that will frame future bilateral co-operation on climate change issues between the North West province and Manitoba province in Canada is in the pipeline, said the North West MEC for Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Rural Development Boitumelo Tshwene.

Mafikeng - The signing of an agreement that will frame future bilateral co-operation on climate change issues between the North West province and Manitoba province in Canada is in the pipeline, said the North West MEC for Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Rural Development Boitumelo Tshwene.

Pretoria-Clean energy will be in the spotlight when a two-day meeting of global electricity regulators kicks-off in Cape Town on Thursday.

Pretoria- Young boys who will be at initiation schools in Limpopo next month will not miss out on the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer action as their parents will be allowed to bring in television sets.

Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department saved almost R400 million in 2009 after re-engineering its Audit and Risk Management Unit and Supply Chain Management to root out corruption, wastage and theft.

Pretoria - Stricter hygiene codes would be imposed at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, where six babies died after contracting diarrhoea at the weekend

Pretoria - ArcelorMittal South Africa and its iron ore supplier Kumba have reached an interim arrangement in terms of a pricing agreement following a dispute that threatened the closure of Saldanha Steel.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Friday launch Child Protection Week which will focus on the protection of children during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The Business Day newspaper today Friday 23 April 2010 published a factually incorrect and misleading article, reporting that Cabinet had decided to instruct ICASA to issue a second licence to Broadband Infraco (Pty) Ltd.