South Africa

Pretoria - Police Minister, Nathi Mthethwa, and his Deputy, Fikile Mbalula, are to launch a crime fighting television programme on Thursday.

Pretoria - Cabinet on Tuesday approved the National Youth Policy (NYP) for 2009-2014.

Vanderbijlpark - Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni will engage with the country's commercial banks on Wednesday to discuss the large difference between its repo rate and their prime lending rate.

Pretoria - The Banking Association of South Africa has confirmed a meeting would take place on Thursday between itself and South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni.

Pretoria - The inaugural "Fly the Flag for Football" road show will kick off in Bloemfontein on Wednesday.

Johannesburg - The South African Football Association (SAFA) has selected three South African coaches to assess the performance of Bafana Bafana.

South Africa's education system has come under scrutiny over the years with some analysts questioning whether its early childhood education programmes meets the educational needs of all children and whether the school system is capable of producing students who can cope with tertiary studies.

Ekurhuleni - The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has allocated millions of rands to improve the lives of people living in informal settlements.

Pretoria - The Presidency says it is concerned about the “knee-jerk and ultra-sensitive reaction” of some sections of the media to any reference to the impact of apartheid colonialism on South African society.

Rustenburg - Hospitals in the North West have been placed on high alert after the National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) confirmed seven cases of measles in the province

Johannesburg - The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board says it will work around the clock to ensure that the strategy announced a few weeks ago to turnaround the public broadcaster's finances, bears fruit.

Bloemfontein - Free State MEC for Social Development, Sisi Ntombela, has condemned the rape of a 13-year-old girl, allegedly by her school teacher.

Cape Town - Climate change and energy will be among the top issues on the agenda of a two-day Urban Environmental Management Programme (UEMP) Conference.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has declared the Presidential Hotline, which has received an overwhelming response from South Africans, a success.

Pretoria - It's business as usual at all hospitals following an agreement reached between the Department of Health and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) to end the illegal strike by doctors with immediate effect.