Johannesburg - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says transformation in all sporting codes is non-negotiable and is a Constitutional mandate and part of government's agenda.
Pretoria - New National Police Commissioner General Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega says she is humbled by her appointment and has called on South Africans to give her time to prove herself.
Pretoria - A Gauteng child has been paralysed as a result of a rare complication from polio vaccination, said the Department of Health.
Durban - Solutions to climate change challenges can come from virtually anywhere, and now a challenge has been put to software developers to come up with innovative ways to deal with the global phenomenon.
Vereeniging - Eskom has embarked on a pilot project that will see it using the power of the sun to generate electricity at three of its facilities.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma says new ways of producing goods -- which will reduce both the economy's use of energy and emissions from energy production -- have to be found.
Pretoria - As the first written National Senior Certificate exam gets underway, the Free State MEC for Education, Tate Makgoe, has assured learners and parents that they are well prepared for the exams.
Pretoria - Cabinet has congratulated the newly appointed members of the Executive as well as General Riah Phiyega who has been appointed as National Commissioner of Police.
Cape Town - The discussion paper on the "emotive" land reform issue is now out, and the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, is set to table it in Parliament later today.
Pretoria - Ahead of the Grade 12 final National Senior Certificate examination this morning, learners looked relaxed as they entered their school premises.
Polokwane - Limpopo police are offering a R200 000 reward for information that can lead to the arrest of those who murdered Member of Parliament Lekoba Jack Tolo.
Johannesburg - South Africa needs to become more energy efficient if it is to meet industrialisation pressures.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has expressed his "deepest sympathy and condolences" to the people and Government of Turkey after a devastating earthquake that struck the eastern part of the country on Sunday.
Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called for every bus and taxi on the country's roads to be stopped and checked following two accidents that claimed the lives of 16 people on Tuesday.
Pretoria - The school principal at Adam Masebe in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, is confident that the matric pass rate at his school will be higher than that of last year.
