South Africa

Pretoria - Police arrested 19 foreign national men when they uncovered a drug lab, with drugs with a street value of R41 million, in Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has determined 1 April 2014 as the date on which section 4(2) and 4(3) as well as section 14 of the Civilian Secretariat for Police Services Act shall come to operation.

Piet Rietief – Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says government will over the next year strive to medically circumcise one million men through its Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) campaign.

Pretoria – The Presidency has on Sunday announced that President Jacob Zuma has appointed Thembekile Kimi Makwetu as Auditor General with effect from 1 December 2013.

Mbombela - Four Mpumalanga Communal Property Associations (CPAs) have been identified to trade their produce in the Sultanate of Oman.

Mmabatho - A R35 million psychiatric hospital has been officially opened in the North West to help restore the dignity of mental patients in the province.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has described struggle stalwart Reginald September, who died last weekend, as a formidable leader who left behind a legacy of continually striving for a united and non-racial society.

Pretoria – North West Premier Thandi Modise says knowing your HIV status is the key to conquering the virus in the province.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has appointed judges to the High Court, Labour Court and the Electoral Court.

Pretoria – Development has come to the community of Ndumo, located between KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique, in the form of the R1.5 billion Inkululeko Development Project.

Hotazel - President Jacob Zuma says many of the infrastructure projects coordinated under the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission have been completed or are nearing completion.

Pretoria – The Department of Basic Education’s request for part of a question in the Dramatic Arts matric exam paper to be excluded from the marking process has been approved by Umalusi.

Pretoria - The European Union’s export ban on some of South Africa’s citrus products is a major concern and poses a threat to socio-economic development in the country, says the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

Pretoria – The price of all grades of petrol is to increase next week by 17 cents per litre, the Department of Energy has announced.

Pretoria – South Africans will on World Aids Day be encouraged to know their status by getting tested, to follow the “ABC” principles of abstaining, being faithful and condomising and for males to get medically circumcised.