South Africa

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.

Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town on 25 May 2011.

Pretoria - Government has established a National Joint Operations Committee to deal with the current icy conditions that have gripped some roads in certain parts of the country.

Pretoria - The retained executive mayor of Ekurhuleni Metro, Mondli Gungubele, announced his new mayoral committee when he was sworn in for the second term in office on Wednesday.

Cape Town - A suggestion has been made for government officials to go through a "mandatory energy efficient education."