South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has wished the Muslim community a happy Eid ul-Fitr.

Pretoria - The National Development Plan (NDP), which charts a 20-year path towards achieving a better life for all South Africans, is now available in all eleven official languages.

Durban - If you want to find out what the South African government, NGOs and private sector are doing about climate change - visit the South Africa Climate Change Response (SACCR) Expo in Durban.

Pretoria - Job creation and the boosting of the local South African manufacturing sector are at the top of the agenda for the Request for Proposals [RFP] to procure renewable power producers.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has ordered the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) to halt all processes linked to the new toll gate system on the country's major roads.

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