South Africa

Pretoria- President Jacob Zuma has welcomed members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other officials who have arrived into the country for the 123rd IOC Session.

Pretoria - Former President Nelson Mandela, who turns 94 next week, is in good health.

Pretoria - The 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC) has closed up business and transferred all outstanding activities to the South African Football Association (Safa).

Pretoria - Political and economic relations between Serbia and South Africa will come under scrutiny as Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ebrahim Ebrahim, begins his two-day visit to that country.

Pretoria - A heavy Tshwane Metro Police contingent and Home Affairs officials cracked down on bogus traditional healers, who are behind illegal adverts that have sprung out in many parts of the city centre.

Pretoria - With less than four months before the world descends on Durban for this year's climate change conference, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane says limited time was one of the major challenges facing the negotiation team in the lead up to COP 17.

Pretoria - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is expected to announce a plan to address the plight of child headed households during the 18th Biennial Conference of the National Association for Child Care Workers (NACCW).

Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs has noted a Cape High Court Judgment compelling it to process new asylum-seeker applications within the Cape Town metropolitan area.

Pretoria - South Africa is celebrating the high achievement by Chad le Clos, who blitzed his way to Team South Africa's second gold medal of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, on Tuesday night.

Pretoria - The Presidency has reassured the public that the Limpopo education matter is being attended to at the highest level, as education is an apex priority of government and for President Jacob Zuma personally.

Pretoria - The decline in the unemployment rate down to 24.9% in the second quarter from 25.2% in the first quarter is encouraging, says Nedbank.

Pretoria - Government and labour unions have agreed on a three-year settlement for the period 2012 to 2015, with the salary increase for 2012 finalised at 7%.

East London - Many Eastern Cape National Union of Metal Workers (Numsa) downed tools on Monday, demanding a 13 percent wage increase.

Pretoria - Newly elected African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma met with seven former Heads of State and Government in Pretoria on Wednesday morning as part of consultations before she takes up her seat at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Bisho - Mluleki Nyoka said his decision to start a small multi-purpose co-operative has changed the fortunes of many people in his village.