South Africa

Pretoria - Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza has congratulated Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss on being crowned Miss World 2014.

Pretoria - Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has sent his condolences after the passing of four family members in Olievenhoutbosch, north of Johannesburg.

The South African government has joined the international community in condemning what it described as “inhumane and barbaric” terrorist attack against a school in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan.

Dundee- President Jacob Zuma said reconciliation is not an event but a process, and that building a nation takes time.

The African Union (AU) has announced that 187 Ethiopian health workers have left Addis Ababa to join the AU Support to Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The South African Health Department has confirmed the prevalence of measles cases in five provinces - Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape and Western Cape.

Sydney's terror siege ended early Tuesday morning with three dead including the lone gunman after armed police stormed a cafe in the heart of Australia's largest city to end the 17-hour incident.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans and the world to continue to build on the late Nelson Mandela’s legacy and the work that he began when he led South Africa to its first democratic elections in 1994.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has congratulated Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss on being crowned Miss World 2014.

Pretoria - The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has invited design students to enter the National Furniture Design Competition.

Pretoria - Government has taken note of the decisions by two rating agencies, saying it recognises the need to steer the country’s economic growth trajectory onto a more robust course.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Tuesday deliver an address at the Day of Reconciliation celebrations in Ncome in KwaZulu-Natal as part of promoting reconciliation and nation building in the country.

Pretoria – The Presidency says President Jacob Zuma has received a letter from the Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete, asking him to consider suspending the chairperson of the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Ellen Tshabalala.

Pretoria – Thousands of people of all ages participated in the Mandela Remembrance Walk, which took place in Pretoria this weekend.

Pretoria - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi today gave Christmas gifts to five families that are heavily burden by poverty.