South Africa

Johannesburg – Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Mduduzi Manana, has urged students to live a healthy life by getting tested and knowing their HIV status.

Johannesburg - A Book Bus will be travelling to six provinces to promote reading and writing as part of the National Book Week initiative, says Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa.

Pretoria - Ekurhuleni MMC for Health and Social Development, Makhosazana Maluleka, has on behalf of the metropolitan municipality received a memorandum of demands from Tembisa residents who embarked on a protest on Friday.

Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs says it is studying the South Gauteng High Court judgement on the detention of illegal foreigners at the Lindela Deportation Facility.

Pretoria – Government has reported that no new cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been reported or confirmed in South Africa or in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region.<

Pretoria – The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) says it is studying the judgement ruling that all those soldiers who were placed on special leave for taking part in a march to the Union Buildings in August 2009 be reinstated.

Cape Town – The ad hoc Committee, established to consider President Jacob Zuma’s response to Parliament over security upgrades to his Nkandla home, has been postponed for MPs to get clarity on the committee’s terms of reference.

Pretoria - The Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel and Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu will on Friday launch an initiative that is expected to bring development to the area of Diepsloot and create 50 000 permanent jobs.

Pretoria – South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday met with representatives of the Boer-Afrikaner Volksraad at the Union Buildings, in Pretoria.

Pretoria – Women with disabilities, from different walks of life, have shared their challenges with Deputy Minister for Social Development, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, at a conference in Durban.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma, who is on a week-long working visit to Russia, met counterpart Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, to discuss among others the repatriation of South African fallen heroes who are buried there.

Pretoria - South African Airways (SAA) has introduced new procedures for travel to and from Ebola virus high risk areas with passengers required to seek permission to travel from the national Department of Health.

Pretoria – Government is to launch a campaign to encourage South Africans from all walks of life to share their personal stories on what it was like growing up during apartheid, what changes democracy has brought and their vision for the future.

Pretoria - South Africa is fostering closer trade relations with Mozambique, which is one of the seven fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa, says the Department of Trade and Industry (dti).

Pretoria - Trade and Industry (dti) Minister Rob Davies has called on opposition party Members of Parliament (MPs) to think more carefully before associating themselves with complaints raised by market players.