South Africa

Johannesburg - Football body FIFA says it is on track to roll out about 20 Football for Hope centres across Africa after this year's World Cup.

Pretoria - The Eastern Cape Health Department is currently raiding illegal initiation schools in the province in a bid to ensure that further lives are not lost during botched circumcisions.

Pretoria - Several roads will be closed and parking restricted around Parliament for the State of the Nation Address on Thursday.

Johannesburg - Former Bafana Bafana Captain and 2010 FIFA World Cup ambassador Lucas Radebe has thrown his weight behind plans by SAFA to replace Alberto Parreira with a local coach.

Pretoria - The next World Cup hosts, Brazil, will be looking to book themselves a place in the quarter-finals when they take on World number 18 Chile in a knock out match at Ellis Park Stadium on Monday evening.

Pretoria - German livewire striker, Miroslav Klose, says his team is ready to face Argentina in their quarter-final encounter at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, on Saturday.

Durban - Five time world champions Brazil have eased into the quarterfinals after sweeping pass Chile in a Round of sixteen match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Pretoria - The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) 50 year independence celebrations should be seen as a symbol of hope that stability is returning to the country, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Pretoria - The Railway Safety Regulator's (RSR) inspectors are investigating an incident in which a Shosholoza-Meyl train carrying 90 passengers derailed outside Polokwane on Monday morning.

Johannesburg - It's a hive of activity across the country's FIFA Ticketing Centres today as thousands of South Africans are trying to book their pass to the soccer spectacle.

Pretoria - The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has announced a new form for the remittance of Value Added Tax

Port Elizabeth - Despite it being in one of the smaller centres, the FIFA Fan Fest in Port Elizabeth has attracted the third most visitors during the first two weeks of the World Cup.

Pretoria - Football fans across the globe are readying for one of the greatest World Cup spectacles ever when Spain take on Portugal in a knock-out match that will earn either team a spot in the quarter-finals.

Pretoria - Police have arrested a UK journalist who allegedly "orchestrated" the incident at the Green Point Stadium where British fan Pavlos Joseph trespassed into the English team's dressing room.

Pretoria - A number of medical male circumcision camps will be rolled out in various districts of KwaZulu-Natal before the end of the winter school holidays.