South Africa

Cape Town - A total of 48 492 full-time and part-time learners in the Western Cape will be sitting for their 2009 Senior Certificate Examinations on 26 October.

Harare - A team of International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts are in Zimbabwe to begin a mission to heal the country's troubled public finances.

Johannesburg - The Gauteng Health Department has obtained an interdict against doctors taking part in an illegal strike.

Pretoria - All senior management vacancies in The Presidency are to be filled in terms of the Public Service Regulations.

Pretoria - The South African Police Services (SAPS) has warned members of the public to question the legitimacy of emails which are in circulation regarding the law and law enforcement.

Durban - South Africans must celebrate all that has been achieved in South Africa's 15 years of democracy.

Durban - President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged South Africans to remember and be thankful to those who sacrificed their lives to realise the freedoms that they enjoy today.

Durban - President Kgalema Motlanthe has praised South Africans, young and old, for turning up in droves to vote in the country's fourth General Elections.

Polokwane - Limpopo matriculants have been encouraged to use the little time that remains to prepare properly for their final exams.

Pretoria - The bodies of the South African Air Force (SAAF) pilots who crashed into the Woodstock Dam in KwaZulu-Natal last Tuesday, have been recovered.

Johannesburg - For anyone walking past Marks Park sports club in Johannesburg this weekend, they would be forgiven for thinking that the FIFA Confederations Cup had started early.

Pretoria - South Africa's fourth democratically elected President will be inaugurated during a ceremony at the Union Buildings on 9 May 2009.

Pretoria - The development of a Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan is expected to form one of the main discussions during this year's World Health Assembly (WHA).

Eastern Cape - PetroSA and the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) today signed a cooperation agreement for the planned Coega oil refinery.

Pretoria - Newly appointed Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has outlined the key priorities his department is to give special attention to.