South Africa

Pretoria - Cabinet has joined the chorus of well-wishers for SA's national women's soccer team.

Pretoria - Government has tabled a revised salary increase for public servants at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council.

Pretoria - Motorists will be given some relief when the price of petrol decreases next Wednesday.

Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town on 27 October 2010.

Pretoria -Metrorail has refuted claims suggesting that one of the train drivers involved in the Thursday's train collision near Kalafong had previously been involved in a similar accident.

Pretoria - South Africa has ratified the Nagoya Protocol which provides for measures to regulate the utilisation of the indigenous fauna and flora of a country as well as their associated traditional knowledge.

Pretoria - Mali progressed to the semi-finals of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) after walloping Bafana Bafana 3-1 in a penalty shoot-out at Moses Mabhida stadium on Saturday night.

Pretoria - The Minister of Sport and Recreation, Fikile Mbalula, has lauded Bafana Bafana for displaying a well-spirited and bitter fight during the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).

Pretoria - Government and business have agreed to work together to address some of the challenges facing the country.

Pretoria - The Neotel/Broadband Infraco partnership has been selected to install a 10 Gigabit per second network to the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) sites in the Northern Cape.

Pretoria - National Treasury has withdrawn the suspension of transfers to Nala Municipality in the Free State because the municipality has made satisfactory progress, it said on Friday.

Polokwane - Over half a million jobs are expected to be created in Limpopo over the next ten years in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed with a Chinese delegation on Wednesday night.

Pretoria - The price of all grades of petrol is set to rise by 41 cents a litre as of next week, said the Energy Department on Friday.

Pretoria – Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Friday filed an application to appeal the Western Cape High Court judgement at the Constitutional Court.

Port Elizabeth - As part of efforts to preserve the country’s water quality, South Africans have been urged to assist in protecting wetlands which are crucial in water purification.