South Africa

Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will on Monday join 60 other world leaders in Rome to seek a solution to reducing global hunger.

Pretoria - Former cricket administrator and South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) board member, Ray Mali, is expected to take over as an interim administrator of Athletics South Africa (ASA) this morning.

Pretoria -The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) has dismissed a media report indicating that its Projects Director Harry Letsebe's credentials earned him the position, as bogus and unfounded.

Pretoria - The new La Mercy airport, north of Durban, has officially been named King Shaka International Airport.

Pretoria - Reserve Bank Governor, Gill Marcus, will over the next two days chair her first Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Pretoria since taking office.

Pretoria - The continuous efforts being made within the blood transfusion industry to maintain a safe and sustainable blood supply will be the main focus during the 31st South African National Blood Transfusion Congress.

It is a profound loss, not only for your family and for her friends and comrades, but for all those who shared her desire for a free, democratic and just South Africa.

Pretoria - When Edna Molewa, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, told guests last week that South Africa was like a student ready to write an exam, understandably, many were not baffled by this comparison.

Pretoria - Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale says government will be spending R1.3 billion to rectify poorly-built RDP houses.

Pretoria - Parliament will this week hold public hearings on the political, economic and social impact of climate change.

Pretoria - The Western Cape Education Department has come up with specific targets to improve education outcomes in 2010

Pretoria - The African Union Summit, which wrapped up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday, endorsed South Africa's candidature for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Pretoria - The e-toll account registration and the distribution of e-tags for Phase-1 of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) kicked off on Monday, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has announced.

Pretoria - Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ebrahim Ebrahim, met with Yemeni Ambassador Ali Al-Ghaffari in Pretoria on Tuesday to discuss the political conditions in that country

Pretoria - Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has extended her condolences to the families of seven Zion Christian Church (ZCC) members who died in an accident in Limpopo on Monday.