South Africa

Pretoria - Government will prepare a new tender specification that opens the way for the purchase of cheaper anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs.

Pretoria - Veteran defensive midfielder, Macbeth Sibaya, has arrived in the country for the international friendly between Bafana Bafana and Ghana at Soccer City on Wednesday evening.

Pretoria – A new provincial council is to be launched in the North West to coordinate and monitor the implementation of programmes and strategies for the province’s response to HIV and Aids.

Pretoria - The Health Department says it is monitoring the impact of strike action on health services as some 1.3 million government employees were expected to down tools on Tuesday.

Pretoria - Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has welcomed the arrest of six Pakistani nationals for issuing fraudulent Home Affairs documents to illegal immigrants.

Pretoria - Three thousand health workers countrywide will be trained in tuberculosis (TB) management to help strengthen TB control.

Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has noted plans for a new diesel manufacturing plant in the Free State.

Pretoria - German coach Joachim Loew says his young players are ready to face England in the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup at Bloemfontein's Vodacom Park Stadium on Sunday.

Cape Town - Soccer fans that have tickets to the 2010 FIFA World Cup and needed a visa to visit South Africa will be able to obtain them for free on entering South Africa.

Bloemfontein - It's all systems go for the City of Roses as they get ready to host their first FIFA World Cup night game between Switzerland and Honduras.

Pretoria - Soccer fans can now apply for the final match tickets of the 2010 FIFA World Cup when the eleven FIFA Ticketing Centres open their doors tomorrow in all the host cities.

Durban - Over 550 people came to help Durban find a place in the Guinness Book of World Records on Friday.

Pretoria - In an attempt to improve relations with the media, government will facilitate Cabinet interaction with the South African National Editors' Forum and the Foreign Correspondence Association, to ensure increased media access to the Executive.

Durban - The last sixteen at the 2010 FIFA World Cup has come to light after all group matches concluded on Friday night.

Johannesburg - Hundreds of soccer fans have joined long queues at FIFA ticketing centres to secure their opportunity to get their hands on last minute 2010 tickets.