South Africa

Pretoria - North West Premier Thandi Modise has extended birthday wishes to Bafana Bafana and Kaizer Chiefs Captain Itumeleng Khune.

Pretoria - Arms manufacture company Denel says arrangements have been made to repatriate the bodies of the two South Africans who lost their lives in a bomb attack on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Pretoria - Eskom has been named the overall winner of the 2013 Nkonki State Owned Companies (SOC) Integrated Reporting Awards for a second year running.

Pretoria - As the 6th South African Aids Conference got into full swing in Durban, the Gauteng Health Department announced that it has already given Isoniazid preventative prophylaxis [TB preventive therapy] to 9 000 HIV positive people in the 2012/13 financial year.

What has distinguished us as a nation, has been that South Africans do not back away from a challenge. Our history tells us that no challenge is too big, no matter how complex and difficult, when we stand united.

More than 100 years ago, indigenous African people lived together and jointly owned the land. Individual land ownership was an unfamiliar concept. The land belonged to the people and local chiefs managed it on their behalf.

Pretoria - South Africa’s current account deficit narrowed from 6.5% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 5.8% gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2013, said the Reserve Bank on Wednesday.

The 18th to 21st June 2013 mark the hosting of the South African AIDS conference, at the Durban International Convention Centre hosted by the National Department of Health.

Pretoria - South Africa’s real gross domestic expenditure increased by 3.5% in the first quarter of 2013, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Wednesday.

Cape Town – A presidential review on public-sector wages has yet to get under way, after facing delays caused by a strike earlier this year by Sadtu and ongoing labour demands by the teachers’ union, the Minister of Public Service and Administration Lindiwe Sisulu told Parliament today.

Pretoria - The Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed to 5.6% year-on-year in May, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday.

Johannesburg - Police are offering a reward of up to R100 000 to anyone with information that would lead to the successful arrest of the person who murdered Johannesburg Central Cluster Commander, Major General Tirhani Maswanganyi.

Pretoria - Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says sexual and reproductive health services need to be part of South Africa’s integrated school health programme.

Pretoria - A global customer survey has named South African Airways (SAA) as the Best Airline in Africa.

Pretoria - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday tabled the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill 2013.