South Africa

Pretoria - Chief of the South African Navy, Admiral Refiloe Mudimu, today called on women to seize opportunities and not be spectators.

Durban - The concerns of farmers in the southern African region must become a part of the United Nations' climate change agenda.

Pretoria - Teenage pregnancies have seen a slight drop in Gauteng.

Pretoria - International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim will host his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleinik, for political consultations in Cape Town on Wednesday.

Pretoria - The struggle for gender equality and women empowerment should continue even after Women's Month draws to a close, says Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is to unveil a dedicated wall in the gallows at the C-Max prison with individual plaques for each of the 132 political prisoners executed there during the apartheid regime on 15 December.

Pretoria - The Department of Environmental Affairs will be using 25 000 Strelitzia Nicolai leaves - more commonly known as wild banana leaves - as natural shade during COP 17 in Durban.

Johannesburg - SANAC Deputy Chairperson Mark Heywood said more transparency and open dialogue is needed to improve issues of stigmatisation around testing for HIV.

Soweto - Matric pupils in some of the underperforming schools in Soweto are hopeful that they have done well in their English Paper 1.

Pretoria - The launch of taxi body Santaco's airline will open up air travel to many people who have n

Johannesburg - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has challenged society to be tolerant and wage a fight against discrimination across all genders.

Pretoria - Unemployment among the educated is increasingly becoming a phenomenon, says a report released recently by the Department of Labour.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has appointed new judges for the Supreme Court of Appeal and various other High Courts in the country.

Cape Town - Matrics in Cape Town have told Western Cape Department of Education MEC Donald Grant that the first written matric exam this morning was fair and covered the sections of the syllabus they had studied.

Pretoria - Marius Fransman, the Deputy Minister of International Relations, is to represent South Africa at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting this week.