Pretoria - The Independent Electoral Commission is confident that South Africans will turn up in their numbers to take advantage of their last chance to register to vote this weekend, despite the heavy rain that is expected.
Pretoria - Energy Minister Dipuo Peters is to participate in a workshop on Thursday that will work towards the finalisation of the Grand Inga Project Treaty in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Midrand - Environmental and climate stakeholders from across the country have gathered at the National Climate Change Summit to formulate a framework to lead South Africa in its fight against climate change.
Pretoria - A total of 42 political parties will contest the 2009 General Elections if their candidates' lists are approved by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).
Pretoria - President Kgalema Motlanthe has joined the international community in expressing outrage and condemnation at the assassination of Guinea Bissau President Joab Vieira.
Pretoria - South Africa is to continue with efforts to build peace in the restive western Sudanese region of Darfur, says the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.
Pretoria - The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality has confirmed that it has closed down the Klerksoord site situated north of Pretoria, where victims of xenophobic violence were placed last year.
Cape Town - Perfect weather conditions is smiling on Cape Town today, as the city gets ready for the 15th State of the Nation Address and the first one to be delivered by President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Parliament - Motorists in Cape Town have been warned that many of the roads surrounding Parliament will be closed between 9am and 2pm on Friday, as Parliament opens with the State of the Nation Address.
Parliament - A sense of hope and resilience in the face of the current economic climate is expected to be the thread that runs through the State of the Nation Address, to be delivered by President Kgalema Motlanthe on Friday morning.
Midrand - A Johannesburg-based company is harnessing the power of the sun giving communities and families the ability to cook, boil and even fry food at no expense to the environment.
Johannesburg - The Gauteng Economic Development Agency (GEDA) is moving swiftly to take up some of the opportunities created by President Jacob Zuma's recent state visit to Brazil.
Dakar - Guinea-Bissau's parliamentary speaker Raimundo Pereira took an oath as the country's interim president on Tuesday, one day after President Joao Bernardo Vieira was killed
Parliament - The delights of the country's rainbow nation are being emulated in fashion as the mother city readies for the opening of parliament this morning.
London - Developments in Zimbabwe and Sudan are expected to be high on the agenda when Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma meets with the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Friday.
