South Africa

Pretoria - The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has warned that cold weather conditions will persist in most parts of the country until Thursday.

Pretoria - As part of Child Protection Week activities, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini will officially launch the national Early Childhood Development (ECD) awareness campaign in KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga.

Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has reaffirmed the strategic importance of India's relationship with Africa, however, he underscored the need for burgeoning trade relations to be propelled to the next level.

Pretoria - South Africa has agreed with the decision that will see the release of $1.5 billion of frozen Libyan assets, which are expected to be used for emergency assistance to the crisis-hit country.

Pretoria - Public servants will no longer be allowed to do business with the Eastern Cape Government, Premier Noxolo Kiviet has announced.

Pretoria - Africa and India have pledged to further strengthen their cooperation in regional and global peace and security, as well as economic and trade areas.

East London - The Eastern Cape Transport MEC says young black women should be at the forefront of the aviation industry rather than just settle for being flight attendants.

Pretoria - Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, says climate change will have a severe impact on the world's water resources and has called for drastic measures to be put in place to address the challenge.

Pretoria - In an effort to strengthen the performance and managerial capacity of school districts, the Gauteng Education Department has transferred six directors to head up the provincial districts.

Pretoria -Tickets for the international friendly match between Bafana Bafana and Burkina Faso are now on sale.

Pretoria - Government says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on South Africa is a fair assessment of the fiscal situation in the country.

Cape Town - South Africa says it has been vindicated for its stance on the unfreezing of Libyan assets.

Cape Town - Seven planned toll roads would help to cover a R149 billion backlog in strengthening and re-gravelling the country's worst roads, the Minister of Transport Sibusiso Ndebele, said on Thursday

Pretoria - The case against three men accused of defrauding the Department of Labour's Compensation Fund of millions of rands was yet again postponed today as the men failed to plead.

Pretoria - The African Union (AU) on Thursday secured over $351 million in cash and some $28 million in kind at a Pledging Conference for the drought in the Horn of Africa.