South Africa

Pretoria - Growth in spending slowed to 1.9% in the third quarter of 2013, the Reserve Bank said on Tuesday.

Komatipoort - Travellers crossing the Lebombo border between Mpumalanga and Mozambique can expect lighter traffic this festive season.

Polokwane - Limpopo MEC for Roads and Transport Lehlogonolo Masoga has adopted a ‘no-nonsense’ approach towards this festive season’s road safety activities.

Pretoria - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson will open the 3rd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Change in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Pretoria - Ekurhuleni mayor Mondli Gungubele has called on local communities to take a firm stand against women and child abuse.

Pretoria - The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has called on parents to play their role in eradicating HIV transmission to children.

Pretoria - An investment and trade seminar will kick off the Department of Trade and Industry’s Outward Selling and Investment Mission in Nigeria.

Limpopo - Limpopo Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Fannie Masemola, has expressed shock and sadness following the brutal killing of three women and a one-year-old baby in two separate gender-based violence incidents over the weekend.

Pretoria - International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane is back in the country after her working visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which was aimed at renewing ties between the two countries.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has urged all motorists, especially those in Gauteng, to use the remaining few hours to register for electronic tolling, which goes live tomorrow.

Pretoria - Police arrested 19 foreign national men when they uncovered a drug lab, with drugs with a street value of R41 million, in Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has determined 1 April 2014 as the date on which section 4(2) and 4(3) as well as section 14 of the Civilian Secretariat for Police Services Act shall come to operation.

Piet Rietief – Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says government will over the next year strive to medically circumcise one million men through its Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) campaign.

Pretoria – The Presidency has on Sunday announced that President Jacob Zuma has appointed Thembekile Kimi Makwetu as Auditor General with effect from 1 December 2013.

Mbombela - Four Mpumalanga Communal Property Associations (CPAs) have been identified to trade their produce in the Sultanate of Oman.