South Africa

Pretoria - Free State MEC Dan Kgothule, who was caught speeding at 235 kilometres per hour, has been found guilty of a charge of reckless and negligent driving.

Pretoria - It was a busy festive season at South Africa's ports of entry with more than 3.5 million travellers entering and leaving the country.

Pretoria - Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu says jobs that were lost in the mining industry during the recession will be created during the course of this year.

Polokwane - Limpopo's education department is optimistic that it achieved at least a 60% matric pass rate in 2010.

Pretoria - South Africa created 157 000 jobs in the fourth quarter of 2010, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Tuesday.

Musina - School leavers have until Wednesday to apply for study bursaries at the Musina local municipality in Limpopo.

Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs believes that the Immigration Amendment Bill will help weed out those foreigners who attempt to abuse the country's immigration system.

Pretoria - Learners who wrote their 2010 final exams under the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) had reason to smile on Tuesday, with more than 98 percent passing their exams.

Mbombela - Smallscale sugarcane farmers in Mpumalanga's Nkomazi area are singing a sweet tune following good rains over the festive season.

Pretoria - The South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC) says it does not it condone any form of collusion in procurement procedures and practices in the industry.

Pretoria - The new draft of the Financial Services Charter (FSC), gazetted by Department of Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies, has been welcomed by Keith Levenstein, CEO of EconoBEE.

Johannesburg - Grade 12 learners will be waiting with their fingers crossed for matric results, which will be released on Thursday.

Cape Town - Parliament today ordered the Department of Defence and Military Veterans to do its homework and calculate the costs and number of military veterans that would be affected if benefits mooted under a new bill came into effect.

Pretoria - The heavy rains over the past few weeks have been a welcomed development in water-strapped parts of the country, however, the Free State Agriculture Department has warned of an imminent outbreak of Rift Valley fever.

Pretoria - The extradition case for Shrien Dewani, the man wanted for allegedly masterminding a hit on his wife Anni Dewani, has been set for May 3 at Woolwich Crown Court in London.