South Africa

Pretoria - International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has set the record straight over reports of her overseas hotel stays and charted flights.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has described the Gallows Museum at Pretoria Central Correctional Centre as a place where the political prisoners who were hanged there can be honoured and the past can be buried.

Pretoria - Several testing stations across the country face closure as the National Department of Transport forges ahead with efforts to make the South African roads safer, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has warned

Pretoria - The families of those who were executed at the gallows at the Pretoria Central Prison during apartheid for political crimes were this week given the opportunity to visit the gallows - many for the first time.

Thohoyandou - Churches, traditional authorities and civic organisations in Limpopo have been urged to help expose those who abuse women and children.

Pretoria - North West Premier Thandi Modise says she is shocked and saddened by the death of Kgosi Peter Bazabaza Motsepe of the Bakgatla Ba-Mmakau Traditional Council.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Local Government and Housing Department has expressed deep concern at the continued illegal selling and purchasing of land from syndicates operating in Lenasia.

Pretoria - In compliance with an order granted by the Constitutional Court, the City of Tshwane and the residents of Schubart Park have jointly appointed Reverend Frank Chikane as the convener of discussions aimed at resolving issues between the parties.

Pretoria - The Energy Department and PetroSA have launched an Integrated Energy Centre (IeC) in Mbizana in the Eastern Cape.

Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal Premier Dr Zweli Mkhize says that a group of medical students, who left the province on Monday for medical training in Cuba, will soon return and be able to assist with the rollout of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.

Jane Furse - Subsistence farmers in Limpopo have been given the tools to have a bumper harvest after 72 tractors were made available for them to use.

Pretoria - Offender labour will soon be utilised more often to revamp and furnish schools in South Africa, the Correctional Services Minister, Sibusiso Ndebele, has announced.

Johannesburg - Statistician General Pali Lehohla on Monday reiterated that the results of Census 2011 are accurate.

Pretoria - The technical committee selection panel of the South African Football Association (Safa) have identified Bafana Bafana caretaker coach, Steve Komphela and Gordon Igesund as top candidates for the Bafana head coach job.

Pretoria - The South Africa/Namibia Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security has expressed confidence that COP17 will yield results that will advance humankind's endeavours to mitigate the threat of climate change to human security.